Back to School Night

Hi all! I hope you are having a great summer! Our Back to School Night will be Thursday Aug. 11 at 6:30. I will send out invites as the time gets closer. Back to School Night is open to current students and also to families interested in coming to Chipman's Corner Preschool for the 2011 school year.

Official Dates

Hi All! A lot of you have been asking about our start dates for next year. I finally looked at a calendar and nailed some days down. If you are interested, they are posted under the schedule tab at the top of the page. Thank you so much for all of your referrals. Our classes are starting to fill up. You all are amazing! Have a great summer and we will see you next fall!

MEGA BIG BUBBLES!

They're not big bubbles, they're MEGA BIG BUBBLES! It was so much fun doing these MEGA BIG BUBBLES! The "to do" part is pretty easy and the fun part is MEGA BIG! Alright, I'll stop being nerdy. It will be hard, but I'll try. ; )



Anyway, these work best when it is not windy. The great thing about these was that it was as much fun for me to play with as it was for the kids. The day we talked about bubbles, we looked at different sized and shaped bubble blowers and made predictions as to what size and shape the bubbles would be when we blew them. Then we went outside and tested our predictions.


Here's What You Need:

• A big container of bubbles or homemade bubbles
• Wire coat hanger
• Yarn
• Wide cookie sheet (It needs to be big enough to fit the bent hanger inside.)

Here's What You Do:

1. Bend the wire hanger into a circle. Make it as symmetrical as possible.
2. Tightly wrap yarn around the hanger circle.
3. Fill the cookie sheet with bubbles.
4. Put the hanger in and slowly lift one end out of the bubble solution until it creates a film across the whole hanger.
5. Move the hanger through the air and watch the beauty and magic!

A couple of quick pointers: Make sure to have a bucket of water near by to wash hands in. When these MEGA BIG BUBBLES pop, they pack quite a bubbly punch. Also, be careful when doing it on cement because if the bubbles spill, the sidewalk can get really slippery.

Art Hanger

All year long, we have been sending the kids home with fun art and now there is a place to put it! We made these art hangers for our mothers for Mother's Day.

Here's What you need:

• 6 popsicle sticks (skinny or fat or a combination of the two)
  
• Hot glue gun
• Markers
• Black Yarn
• Giraffe head cut out
• 2 Mini clothes pins (You can find them at Walmart or at craft stores.)
  

Here's What You Do:

1. Color the popsicle sticks orange and add big brown spots. Color "hoofs" on the bottom of 4 of the sticks.
2. Color and cut out a picture of a giraffe head.
   
3. Use the hot glue gun to glue the 4 legs and a neck to the back of one of the sticks.
   
4. Glue the head at the top of the neck.
5. Glue a clothes pin on each of the outer legs. (The inner two don't need one.)
6. Cut a length of string and tie a knot in each end. Glue it between the legs to act as a hanger.
7. Braid three short lengths of yarn and knot each end. Glue to the end of the body as a tail.
   

Fishing for . . .

Here's another idea for a game or center that has so many possibilities. All you need are magnets, string, a long skinny something, and paperclips. Put the magnet on your string on your stick and put the paper clips on your "fish." You could fish for numbers - find the biggest, the smallest, find your age, the number of kids in class, from biggest to smallest, smallest to biggest, etc. You could fish for letters - tell what letter you fished, we each had a card with a capital letter and we had to fish for the lower case letter, fish for the letters of your name, etc. You could fish for colors, shapes, etc.