MWF Preschool News - Week of March 8

Dear MWF Families,

The theme for this week was our five senses. Monday the children received a vision and hearing screening from our local county health department. Everyone participated wonderfully! We also went on a walk on Friday. During the walk, we practiced using our senses. We saw a UPS truck, felt the wind, heard the local traffic, and smelled fresh air. And we were able to taste yummy vanilla cupcakes, as we celebrated a birthday for one of our students.

For our letter T week a student brought in a Teddy Bear and a little pony named Toola-Roola. On a bittersweet note, we said goodbye to one of our students who is going to a full time preschool program. We made special cards to say goodbye to him and send him best wishes. Next week we will have fun exploring the theme of Farm Animals.

Here were some other highlights of our past week...

Our local bookmobile paid a visit and we chose new library books for our classroom.

We painted with sponges shaped like the letter T and Triangles.

We drew with Chalk Cray-pas to explore other textures of creating drawings.

Played with Texture Dominoes.

Marched around our building with maracas, bells and tambourines and sang our favorite songs, including Christmas carols in March!

Watered our bean seeds and observed one is sprouting.

Used our fine motor skills and played with tweezers and counting plastic Teddy Bears and placed them into muffin tins to practice sorting and counting.
Looked at I Spy Books
Listened to the story We Are Going On A Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen. Great Rhymes and Sounds are in this book for Senses Week.
Read the story My Five Senses by Aliki.

We will see you in two weeks for our Parent Teacher Conferences. Please note that there is
NO SCHOOL on Friday, March 26. The teachers will be busy meeting with you!! Enjoy this beautiful sunny refreshing weather! (Our playground is beginning to dry...Yippee!)


Your Team,
Miss Lori, Miss Donna, Miss Pat and Miss Jean

Nine More Days Till Spring!

T-Th Preschool News - Week of March 8

Another fun filled week of learning at Tiny Treasures!

We continued our unit on the Five Senses this week, exploring the world of taste and touch! We also are already on letter T week, so we did several activities related to the letter T. I think one of our favorite times this week started out at our rainbow rug when we explained to the children how to "trace triangles." The children immediately commented on how the triangles look like pizza, and everyone wanted to say WHAT should go on top of a pizza! Here's what we heard...

Macaroni & Cheese

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches

French Fries

Rice

Paw Prints (ew!)

A Unicorn

Cheese (there must be a realist in our group!)

Crayons

Feet

Our Heads!

So, if your child is suggesting strange pizzas at home, this may be why!!

Here are some of the other things we've been doing this week at school...

At greeting time on Tuesday, we made some beautiful flower petals that will be hanging up soon! On Thursday, we played with puzzles (which gave the teachers a little more time to assess those puzzle skills!)

We brought out some musical instruments and played along to Ella Jenkin's CD "You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song"

We traced some triangle shapes and learned that triangles have 3 straight sides (just like pieces of pizza!)
We played with two science games this week - one about seasons and one about bugs

We explored some unique pieces of nature at the exploration station: Milk Weed stems and seed pods, Queen Anne's Lace stems, Locust Tree seed pods and a Wasp nest. The children were fascinated to open up the Locust Tree pods and see all of the seeds inside. They also REALLY enjoyed blowing the Milk Weed seeds around the room!

We brought out tanagram shapes to make pictures

We used some textured bug templates to make crayon rubbings

We practiced making patterns and learning colors while we played with our counting bugs

At story time we heard two more stories in BIG BOOK form: The Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort and The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

We also went out to the hallway in pairs with Miss Jean to have some puzzle and name recognition skills assessed.

For a simple "Get Ready for Spring" activity, make a paper chain at home to count down the 10 more days to spring! I know I'll be making one at home (even if my kids are 18 and 20!)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Jean, Miss Lacy and Miss Pat

Letter T Week

Trust in the Lord with all your heart! (Proverbs 3:5)

Here are some activities for you to do with your child for letter T week!
And important upcoming dates....

Both Classes:Monday, March 12 - Butter Braid orders are due
Sunday, March 21 - The First Day of Spring!
Monday, March 22 - Butter Braids delivered at 10:00
Wednesday, March 24 - Evening Parent Teacher Conferences
Monday, March 29 to Friday, April 2 - No School - Spring Vacation!
MWF Class:Friday, March 19 - Chapel Time 9:00 - Please Join Us! (and it's BLUE DAY!)Wednesday, March 24 - Kindermusik Visit from Miss Mary
Friday, March 26 - No School - Parent Teacher Conferences
Tuesday-Thursday Class:Thursday, March 25 - No School - Parent Teacher Conferences