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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
T-Th Preschool News - Week of February 22
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MWF Preschool News - Week of Feb 15
Here are some dates coming up for the MWF class:
Wednesday, February 24 - Scholastic Book Orders Due
Friday, February 26 - Chapel Time at 9:00 - We hope you join us!
Monday, March 1 - No School - Casmir Pulaski Day
Friday, March 12 - Butter Braid Orders Due
It's Already Letter Q Week!
We moved forward into our Transportation Theme this week! We are learning about all the various ways to travel. For Letter Q week one of our students brought in a Quarter. How clever. We talked about the different ways we could spend a quarter and that it is worth 25 pennies. Wednesday we had an opportunity to play “Red Light Green Light” in the gym. We used animal cards for the children to present their acting skills. They loved this game. It is a great game to practice for following directions. Fortunately Friday we had a lovely wintry sunny day, so we took the entire class outside for a group walk on our rope. It was great to get outdoors. We witnessed the snow and the icicles melting and sang one of our favorite songs, “This Old Man,” or as our children call it “Nick Nack Paddy Wack.” Next week we will continue our Transportation Theme, have a special guest from a local dental office on Wednesday, and Chapel on Friday!
Here are some other highlights!
We painted with black and white paint to make gray. We used matchbox vehicles to paint roads.
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We listened to the song and story “We All Go Traveling By" by Sheena Roberts and Siobhan Bell and the story "Little Quack’s Bedtime" by Derek Anderson, for Letter Q Week.
At our Exploration Station we played with sand and various vehicles in the sand. This exploration activity proved to be a great fun and calming sensory activity for many of our students!
We played with a new resource in our classroom. It is called Letter Builders, and the children assemble various pieces of wood to create individual letters of the alphabet. This is great practice for alphabetic awareness which is necessary for name writing and forming other words in the future.
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Miss Lori, Miss Donna, Miss Pat and Miss Jean
T-Th Preschool News - Week of February 15
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We brought out the hula hoops and the tunnel so we could have another obstacle course!
Another exciting week of fun and learning! See you all soon!
Friday, February 19, 2010
MWF Preschool News - Week of Feb 8
We had so much fun celebrating Valentines Week! Our focus was on Love, God’s Love, and Loving One Another. For Letter P week one of our students brought in a Pirate and a Police Car. Each of the children took turns passing the police car back and forth to each other. On Monday and Wednesday we played various games with a parachute, and practiced tossing beanbags off the parachute.
Friday was our Valentines Day Party for the children. It was a great success! Thank you to all the parent helpers who made it possible! This week we were especially blessed with a multitude of parent helpers! Another highlight of our week was the great fun and learning the children had with playing post office, by sending postcards, notes and valentines cards to their friends and loved ones. Next week we are moving forward with our transportation theme, as we explore the various modes of transportation. Beep! Beep! See you next week!
Here are some other highlights of our week…
A Parent Helper came in and led a craft activity, and assisted the children
in making Valentine Mice, using heart templates, glue, and markers.
The mice are hanging in the classroom above our bulletin board!
We read the book Valentine Mice by Bethany Roberts.
Made Valentines Card for our friends and loved ones, using paper,
heart shaped doilies, and markers.
Played with our Pegboard.
Sang the “Skinamarink” Song and practiced hand gestures with it!
Read If You’ll Be My Valentine by Cynthia Rylant and also read I Love You As Big As The World by David Van Buren.
Decorated Valentines Bags and Placemats with stickers and markers for our
Valentines Party Day which was a great success!
Moving forward to Next Week! Beep! Beep!
Miss Lori, Miss Donna, Miss Pat and Miss Jean
Monday, February 15, 2010
T-Th Preschool News - Week of February 8
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The Heart Shape Song - sung to The Wheels on the Bus
From Cullens ABCs
The heart shape means that
I love you
I love you
I love you
The heart shape means that
I love you
Each and every day!
Also from Cullen’s ABCs
Three valentines I have for you
Have for you
Have for you
Three valentines I have for you
Pink and red and blue
I’ll put them in the mail for you
Mail for you
Mail for you
Pink and red and blue
Miss Jean, Miss Lacy and Miss Pat
Monday, February 8, 2010
MWF Preschool News - Weeks of Jan 25 & Feb 1
Our last week of January we focused on Numbers and the Color White! For Letter N week one of our students brought in a Nitroade Car with a launch. Each of the children took turns to practice launching it on the Rainbow rug. On Friday that week, the class had a wonderful field trip to a Neighborhood Museum, while the teachers went to early childhood learning conferences. Thanks to our board members who assisted while the teachers were away! We learned lots of wonderful information and ideas to bring into the classroom!
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The first week of February we had fun learning about Groundhog Day and other winter animals who hibernate. We ended the week focusing on Dental Health and Valentine’s Day, as it is quickly approaching. One of our teachers brought in an Orange for Letter O week. We used the gym to expend some of our winter energy during these cold and icy months. The children played with balls, our basketball hoop and hula hoops. We also played Simon Says in some of our small groups and Follow the Leader. Our February Christian character trait is Love. We will learn more about Love and God’s Love during next week for our Valentines Week!
Here are some other preschool highlights…
We had several favorite art projects:
We had fun working on a Noah’s Ark Mural for Letter N Week. The children colored and cut out a picture of Noah, his ark, and the animals. Look for the mural hanging up under our hallway bulletin board.
For White Day we made winter bird feeders with bagels, white Crisco and birdseed.
We made Orange and Letter O Prints using real oranges and orange paint.
We colored Groundhog pictures using our choice of crayons, markers or colored pencils and completed a picture of the “Adventures of a Groundhog.”
We painted hearts with toothbrushes at the easel
For fine motor and prewriting skills, we sorted dried noodles and practiced writing our names
For pre-math skills, we played with number dominoes and we practiced writing numbers
We read many wonderful books:
A Day With No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch
Guess Whose Shadow and What’s Opposite? by Stephen Swinburne
and The Very Hungry Caterpillar - by Eric Carle (a class favorite!)
We played with flashlights and looked at shadows.
We used our Tunnel to play “What did the Groundhog See?”
And we sang “Oh How I Love Jesus” using sign language for the word Jesus
(Look at Cullen’s ABCs website to see how the signs are used!)
Looking forward to Hearts Week,
Miss Lori, Miss Donna, Miss Pat and Miss Jean
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
T-Th Preschool News - Week of Feb 1
It's already Letter O week!
Sometimes, I can't believe how much we do in just two days at preschool! Here are just some of the things that we did this week.....
Made cards for our friend who recently moved to Michigan (we will mail them out next week)
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(we didn't do ALL of the "signs" from the song Jesus Loves Me...but we did learn the signs for Jesus, "Loves Me" and Bible
A dolphin that jumps out of the water and back in
A wheel
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An O is like a circle,