I can't believe it, preschool is done!! What a great year we had. To celebrate our last week of school we played some games and completed an obstacle course. We also had some fun blowing bubbles! Took a tour of the school to look at the Kindergarten/Tk rooms, and looked in the buses! Enjoyed our class picnic! Decorated some more cards for the troops overseas and painted with our watercolors. Watched a video and had a special treat! HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER!!
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Reviewed our letters with BINGO and practiced writing the letters outside with chalk! For fine motor we played with our Play-doh iPads! We explored weather this week. Discussed the different kinds of weather and what we wear for each one. We also discussed how it rains and made it rain in a jar! Went on a nature walk around the school! Once we were finished with our walk the students drew pictures of things they saw while on the walk. We also had some fun at the track while on our walk! The students checked out the BIG playground they all get to play on next year. They had a blast playing! Next week we will have our class picnic and celebrate our last day of preschool!!!
Letter Q- wrote the letter in our workbooks and built the letter with blocks! Here is our song and action for the letter Q: Drew a picture and wrote about our favorite thing to do in the summer! Played some math games- War and Tenzi! For fine motor we make bracelets. Had some fun with the parachute!! Learned about the different parts of a flower and what it all needs to grow. Made some cards for Mother's Day :). We have a new area in our classroom! The dramatic play area is now a camping site!! Next week we will review our letters and go on a nature walk!
Letter X: Practiced writing the letter in our workbooks and built the letter with play dough. Here is our song/action for the letter X: Reviewed our letters by building them with magnetic sticks. We also went fishing for letters. Once they caught a fish, they stated the letter on the fish and placed it into the bucket. Worked on counting and number identification with file folder games. Sorted shapes. Practiced visual discrimination to match up butterfly pictures. To finish up our study on insects, we created an insect out of an egg carton and then built them a house using various materials! It was so fun to see how the students made a home for their butterfly, ant, or bee. Next week we will work on our last letter, Q!
Letter Y- looked to see who has the letter in their name and practiced writing the letter in shaving cream! Here is the song and action for Y: For math this week we worked on quantity to numeral and writing numbers on mini whiteboards. Practiced sorting letters and numbers. For fine motor we built with sticks, strung beads onto string, cut play dough, and hole punched paper. For our study on insects we watched a video on how bees make honey, and explored butterflies. We acted out the lifecycle of a butterfly and discussed how they like to drink nectar from flowers. To demonstrate how their wings are the same on both sides we painted one side of a butterfly, folded it in half and then opened it up to see how the paint transfers to the other side! Next week we will work on the letter X and build an insect!
Letter Z- built the letter with sticks and traced the letter in sand. Here is our song and action for the letter Z: To work on our fine motor skills we played our letters with Q-tips. iPad time! Made butterflies out of coffee filters! After we colored the coffee filters with markers, we sprayed water onto it to make the colors spread. Used our little insects to make imprints into our play dough. For our study on insects we practiced sorting pictures of insects and not insects. We looked at some real insects the teachers have collected and then listened to the different sounds they make. Next week we will work on the letter Y and continue our study on insects!
Letter V: formed the letter with our Play-Doh and practiced writing the letter in our workbooks. Here is the song and action for the letter V: Reviewed our letters with window writing! Made mini volcanos! Worked on our counting with a math board game. With all the rain this week we did some yoga during our inside recess time! We also began our new study on insects this week. We discussed the different parts of an insects and their uses. We also looked at a list of insects and sang a song to help us remember all the parts to an insect. The song goes to the tune of head, shoulders, knees, and toes. Ask your preschooler if they remember the song! It goes like this: Head, thorax, abdomen, abdomen. Head thorax, abdomen, abdomen. Eye, 6 legs, and antenna. Head, thorax, abdomen, abdomen. Next week we will work on the letter Z and Ms. Emily will be visiting.
Letter W- built the letter with magnetic sticks and practiced writing the letter in our workbooks. Here is our song and action for the letter W: To work on our fine motor skills we cut and colored a bunny face. Practiced our math skills by counting dominos and matching them up to the correct number. Over the last couple of week we have been working on decorating cards for the troops overseas to use. We plan to continue doing this until the end of the school year! Worked on our letter writing with a roll and write. Read books with flashlights! Played Zingo! We also had an Easter Egg hunt! After the students graphed their jelly beans, we discussed which color had the most, the least, and if any were equal. Concluded our recycling study by going outside and picking up garbage around the school! We have a new area in the classroom. The dramatic play area is now a post office! The students are doing a great job writing and sending letters to their friends! Next week we will work on the letter V, and begin our new study on insects!
Letter J- practiced writing the letter with rainbow writing and did our workbooks. Here is our song and action for the letter J: Painted eggs with marble painting! Worked on sorting pictures by their beginning sound. Practiced measuring by making three different sized snakes and putting them in order by size. Played War! Worked on our letter identification skills with letter plates. The students had to go grab a plate, bring it to the teacher, and state the letter on the plate. For our study on recycling, we watched a video on what is recycling and why it is important. We then explored different ways we can reuse things, instead of throwing them away. One way is turning milk jugs into a catching game! The students had a blast playing catch with their classmates. The students then created a craft out of the recycled goods from our grocery store! We used LOTS of tape and glue to make their creations come together. It was so awesome to see what they all came up with! Here are a few things they created: Next week we will work on the letter W and finish up our recycling study.
Letter B- formed the letter with wiki sticks, searched the classroom for the letter, and colored pictures that begin with the letter. Here is our song and action for the letter B: Created patterns with pompoms. Reviewed our letters with a mystery bag, and an alphabet launch game! Practiced number order by cutting apart a numbered egg and gluing it back together. Worked on matching a quantity to a numeral. For our study in recycling, we discussed where our trash goes after we throw it away. We looked at photos of a landfill and a recycling center. The students then watched a video of how they sort the garbage at the recycling center, and practiced sorting some themselves! We also looked for the recycling sign on the items in our grocery store. Next week we will work on the letter J and explore the importance of recycling.
Letter F- formed the letter with finger painting, and practiced writing the letter in our workbooks. Here is the song/action for the letter F: Practiced measuring animals with links. After we finished measuring, the students then put their animals in order by size. To work on our number identification skills and counting, students hit the number they rolled with a fly swatter. For fine motor this week we played with play-doh, picked up pompoms with clothespins, practiced pouring water, and scooped marbles up with spoons. Emily visited this week and taught the students about all the different things animals can leave behind. They felt animal hides, guessed the animals by their tracks, and took a look at their own footprints. Had some iPad time. We have a new area in our classroom. The dramatic play area is now a grocery store! The students are having a blast shopping for goodies and checking out at the cash registers. This week we also began our study on recycling. We discussed if we ever see garbage on the ground and how it gets there. We also discussed how littering affects our community and how it can hurt the animals. Next week we will work on the letter B and take a look at where garbage goes after it leaves our houses.
Letter L- looked to see who had the letter in their name, searched the classroom for the letter, and practiced writing the letter on whiteboards. Here is our song and action for the letter L: Worked on our fine motor skills, by matching up letters with clothespins. Decorated a new hat for Cat In The Hat. Created a pattern on a hat. The students used a ruler to draw the lines! Practiced our counting skills by rolling the dice and placing the correct number of fish into the bowl. Matched up pictures that rhymed! Watched Green Eggs and Ham with a snack! Next week Emily will be visiting and we will work on the letter F.
Letter U- practiced writing the letter in our workbooks and on big paper with chalk. Here is the song and action for the letter U: Did some exploring with magnets. Searched around the commons area to find things that were magnetic. Practiced forming numbers with sticks. Worked on turn taking with the game Hi-HO Cherry-O. To work on our counting and number identification skills, students counted pictures and placed a clothespin on the correct number. This week we also discussed dental care. We sorted pictures of foods that are good and not good for our teeth, discussed the importance of brushing our teeth, and watched a video on how to brush our teeth. We also reviewed our letters by brushing them off teeth! Next week we will celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday with a pajama party and work on the letter L.
Letter O- practiced writing the letter, searched for the letter in magazines, and looked to see who has it in their name. Song and action for the letter O: Worked on our counting and number identification with a roll and cover game. Practiced writing our letters with musical chairs! When the music stopped, the students stated what letter they had and then traced the letter with the marker. Used our rhythm sticks to work on following directions. Students listened to the video and followed along. Reviewed our letters with the game 4 Corners. Student picked a letter to stand by, then the teacher would pick one of the four letters out of bowl. If she picked the letter you are standing by, you are out! Next week we will go over some dental health and work on the letter U.
Letter G- practiced writing the letter in our workbooks and formed the letter in sand. Here is the song and action for letter G: Reviewed all our letters with a letter BINGO. Decorated our Valentine's Day bags. Used our imaginations with our play-doh to make creations with a variety of different materials. Ms. Emily visited and taught us about salamanders! Salamanders are good at camouflaging themselves in dirt, they hatch out of soft eggs, they like to eat insects and worms, and their bodies are slimy. The students even touched a real salamander! We then played a game where the students pretended to be salamander and they camouflaged themselves around the classroom so a bird wouldn't eat them! Ms. Emily would call out a color and the students had to go hide by the color. Here are some photos from our Valentine's Day Party!! Play with some balloons, stacked some cups, threw squigz at hearts on the window, and had a snack with Clifford! Next week we will work on the letter O!
Letter D- practiced writing the letter with rainbow writing and looked to see who had the letter in their name. Here is the song and action for the letter D: Reviewed our letters with Letter Memory. Practiced writing our numbers on the whiteboards. iPads! Worked on making shapes with toothpicks and marshmallows! Had some fun with marbles! We had a lot of fine motor activities this week- stringing beads, squirting water bottles, squeezing pipettes, and placing seeds on lines. We also worked on cutting out shapes. Read the book Curious George Builds an Igloo and drew a picture of what we would do in our igloo if we had one at our house! We have a new area in the classroom room, the dramatic play area is now a bakery!! Next week Emily will be visiting, we will work on the letter G, and have our Valentine's Day parties!
Letter M- practiced writing the letter in all different sizes and searched for the letter in the classroom. Here is the song/action for the letter M: Since we are working on the letter M this week, the students drew a picture of a monster. After drawing their picture they then created the monster out of pieces of paper! We also all gave our monsters a name. Worked on our counting and number identification skills with a math board game. Created puffy hearts with glitter!! Sorted pictures by their beginning sound. Took some quiet time to relax and read some books. Finished up our study on winter animals with polar bears! We measured to see how tall a polar bear can grow. Polar bears can get up to 10 feet tall! It takes about 3 preschoolers to be the same height! We also measured our hands/feet compared to a polar bears paw. We also learned that polar bears have black skin under all of their fur. The students added "fur" onto their polar bears to help keep them warm! We also conducted an experiment to see how the polar bears blubber keeps them warm in the cold water and snow! Had some fun with the parachute!! Next week we will work on the letter D.
Letter R- Practiced writing the letter on our white boards and in sand. Built it with sticks and looked to see who had the letter in their name. Here is the song and action for the letter R: Worked on our rhyming by matching pictures that rhyme, and completed alphabet puzzles. Made patterns with animals. For fine motor we cut play-doh and snowflakes! Completed an obstacle course. Worked on counting and number identification skills. For our study on winter animals, we explored penguins. We learned that penguins live at the bottom of the world, they like to swim, and they eat fish. We watched a video on how the penguins carry their eggs on their feet and how baby penguins eat. We then measured ourselves next to an emperor penguin. The students created their own penguins and tried carrying an "egg" on their feet! Next week we will learn about polar bears and work on the letter M.
Letter H- formed the letter with our sticks and practice writing it in our workbooks. We also practiced forming the letters in our name with the sticks! Here is our song action for letter H: Worked on our matching and turn taking skills with the game Uno! Created our names out of a snowman. Sorted objects based on if they were bigger than us or smaller than us. Ms. Emily visited this week and taught us about dinosaurs! We learned about the different kinds of dinosaurs, moved like each dinosaur to music, and hatched dinosaur eggs! For our study on winter animals, we read the story "The Mitten" and and acted it out! The students took turns being the different animals and crawled into the "mitten". We then drew a picture of what we would put in our mitten if it was big enough to fit anything. Next week we will work on the letter R and explore penguins!
Letter E- built the letter with our sticks, practice writing the letter in shaving cream, and looked to see who had the letter in their name. Here is our song and action for the letter E: Practiced writing our numbers on the windows! Worked on number order with puzzles. iPads! Created puffy snowmen! For fine motor this week we used extruders with our play-doh, and create shapes/letters with snap sticks. This week we we began a new study on winter animals. We sorted what animals like the winter and what animals do not. The students used blocks to create a home for their animal to sleep in. They had to use their problem-solving skills to build a house with a roof and walls so the animal wouldn't get wet from the snow. We also discussed how some animals hibernate and where they go to hibernate. The students then drew homes for their animals to sleep in for the winter! Next week Ms. Emily will be visiting and we will work on the letter H.
Here are some photos from our Holiday party. We played some games, ate some snacks, and made keychains for our bags! I hope everyone has a wonderful break!
Letter C and K- discussed how both letters can make the same sound, and built them with our sticks and play-doh. Here is our song and action for the letter C and K: Practiced writing our numbers with rainbow writing out in the big hallway. Students ran around and traced each number. We also worked on our number identification by rolling our dice and parking a car in the corresponding parking spot. Made a pattern on a candy cane and cut it out. Explored graphing and worked on using the terms "most" and "least". We graphed our shoes and our gloves/mittens! We drew our families. To finish up our study on health and exercise, students cut out pictures of their favorite foods from magazines and glued them onto paper! Ms. Emily visited this week and taught us all about opossums. The students learned that opossums have a pocket that they carry their 13 babies in, their babies are the size of a jelly bean, they like to play dead when predators come around, and they don't have any fur on their tail. Students then played a game where they had to go pick up their babies and put them in their pocket, however, when the coyote comes around they had to play dead! Next week we will have our holiday party!
Letter N- Built the letter with sticks, and looked to see who had the letter in their name. We also practiced forming our other letters with the wiki sticks. Here is our song and action for the letter N: Practiced writing our numbers by rolling the die and writing the number we rolled. We measured our hand and foot with cubes! For our study on health and exercise, we explored bones and why we have bones. If all we had was just skin, we would be a blob! The students felt a "hand" with "bones" and without. We then looked at the bones in our bodies and how the bones in animals are different. The students practiced drawing bones in their bodies. To continue with our health and exercise study, we discussed how eating the right food helps keep our bodies healthy. The students sorted foods into healthy and not healthy groups. They voted on their favorite fruit and vegetable. Then we measured everyone to compare our heights with one another. Next week we will work on the letters C and K, and Ms. Emily will be visiting!
Letter P- built the letter with sticks and practiced writing the letter with rainbow writing. Here is our song and action for the letter P: Worked on the sounds letters make by sorting pictures that being with the same sound. Cut and decorated stockings! Made Christmas trees by placing the pieces of paper in order by length. Practiced skills on our iPads. Worked on sequencing events by putting pictures in order on what happens first, next, and last. For our study on health and exercise we did an experiment to see what happens to our heart when we exercise. After running around for a few minutes we could feel our heart beating fast. Once we stopped running and relaxed, our heart started to slow down. We also did some yoga! Next week we will work on the letter N and Ms. Emily will be visiting!
Letter I- practiced writing the letter with our markers, formed the letter with blocks, and looked to see who has the letter in their name. Here is the song and action for the letter I: Wiggle fingers by your nose like a mouse and say i, i, i, i. Worked on quantity to numeral. Explored different ways to make patters. We used ourselves to see how patterns can be made in many ways! Ex- boy, girl, boy girl. Tall, short, tall, short. Boots, shoes, boots, shoes. Worked on our arm and leg muscles again this week by practicing skipping, galloping, throwing, catching, and walking on the balance beam. We also had some fun with the parachute!! Next week we will work on the letter P. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!!
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