Literacy Week

To celebrate Literacy Week, every child chose a free book to take home.  Reading to your children is a very important step to help them succeed in school.  Enjoy the book!

Winter Weather?

The weather has been very warm lately....more like Spring than Winter.  We have been taking advantage of the nice weather to play outside. We are building strong Gross Motor Skills muscles when we play outside.  Strong Gross Motor Skills make it easier to develop strong Fine Motor Skills- the skills children will need when they are ready to learn to print. 

Playing outside also helps develop Social Skills and Language. Planning, cooperating, and negotiating are all part of building snow creations and playing on the equipment outside.

Shadow Play

Groundhog Day is coming and we have been learning about shadows in Pre K.

We made Groundhog pop up puppets.  Here, Miss S is playing with her puppet.  She pretended it was her pet and she was brushing his fur.

When we went outside, she pretended to be a groundhog popping out of her burrow.  It was sunny, so she quickly went back into her hole.  Oh, no!  Six more weeks of winter!

We set up an old overhead projector as a light source, and the students had a lot of fun playing with shadows.

Parents came to help trace the children's shadows and we have them displayed in the hall.  Thanks to the parents who came to help.  It was not easy getting wiggly Pre Kindergarten students to stand absolutely still for the time it took to trace their shadows!  

Birthday Blessings for our January Birthday Kids

Happy Birthday!

Creativity in Our Classroom

We do not often prepare an organized craft that everyone participates in, but rather art supplies are made available for the children to create what they wish.  Children learn much more from creating something that they are truly interested in.  This week, There were some very creative creations!

    PUPPETS!

This young man worked carefully to mold a witch from plasticine.  The witch had a pointy nose and a pointy hat.  He wanted her to go to sleep, so he removed her hat and made her a pillow and a "blankie".   You can see here that she is covered up to her nose.  Her hat is off to the side.

Early Literacy

We are continuing to talk about letters of the alphabet in Pre K. Children are interested in the letters  in their name and some children recognize the letters in classmates' names.  We have fingerprinted over letters of the alphabet and practiced printing letters in shaving cream. Mmmm the room smells so nice when we play with shaving cream!