Monday, March 30, 2020

March 30

Good Morning Preschool Families

I hope everyone is well and keeping safe.  Hopefully you enjoyed some of the beautiful weather on Saturday.  This week I will be sending some fun videos around the Three Little Pigs. 

This is a great time to explore different building materials to build structures.  How tall can you build your structure?  What material is the best to use?  Can you blow it over?

This weeks plan has a couple of days the activities have you go outside to take a walk and enjoy the sunshine.  While you walk try singing some of the Fairy Tale songs that were on the lesson plans.

I am also in the process of writing letters to the children, and hopefully later this week will get those mailed out - so be on the look out.  As always keep in touch - videos and pictures are welcome!! 

Enjoy this weeks activities.

Have a great week.
Ms. Darcie

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Hello Preschoolers and Families




 




Hello Preschoolers & Families                        March 23, 2020

I hope you have a wonderful week.  Good News - Saturday was the first day of spring!!  I was so excited to wake up this morning and see a beautiful pink sky out my window as the sun came up.  I am missing you all so much, but I will do my best to stay connected to you through email, zoom conference calls (more details to follow), written letters and notes, and of course my fun video learning messages.  If you need anything or just want to say hello please feel free to reach out through email.  I welcome all pictures as well!!
                                                                Love Ms. Darcie
                                               






 

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Books for this week

Math area

Math games

Math area

Different counting and number identifying opportunities

More puzzles

Puzzles

Science table

Light table. Create different pictures
Fairy garden next week

Greeting song

Gross motor movements

Wear the green troll feet and go along blue line to end

Dramatic play area

House area
3 billy goats and troll masks available to retell story

Block area

Castle blocks
Arches
3 goats and trolls
Story blocks 3 goats

Alone space I spy items

March - Fairy Tales


Preschool Families

Welcome back from break.  I hope everyone had a restful week and that everyone comes back healthy.  Our theme for March and April will be fairy tales – The first short week back we will get the children back into a routine.  Talking about classroom rules and expectations.  To get us started we will read Jack and the Beanstalk and The Little Red Hen stories.  The next two weeks we will read Three Billy Goats Gruff followed up by two weeks of Three Little Pigs, one week of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the last week of April we will wrap up letter city with a Letter Celebration.

What will be going on in the classroom for March??
Three Billy Goats and Three Little Pigs

Books and greeting song to be posted – look for a pictures
Group time:
Different fairy tale stories – some may have a twist to the story – asking and answering questions.
What are the parts of a story?
Letter City – Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X
Math Chart # 2, 8, 9
You tube – short video on the stories we are reading
Mindfulness practice – belly breathing and finding our calm breathing
Retell fairy tales

Block area:
Goats and tolls
Building bridges
Block arches
Castles blocks
Goats, Trolls and bridge pictures taped on blocks to retell story
Different building materials for building Three Pig houses (small red legos for bricks, Popsicle sticks for sticks, and yellow shredded paper for hay)
Pigs and wolves


Dramatic play area:
Houses area
Three pig houses to retell the story
Pig and wolf masks

Gross Motor Movement:
Green troll feet to walk with
Hopscotch


Sensory Tables:
Toilet paper tube trolls – cut the hair
Hay
Build bridges using foam blocks in water table
Different animals in water table
Lavendar cloud dough
Playdough with letter stampers
Playdough building different houses

Literacy and Math areas:
Here are a few of the things we will be doing…
Math and writing journal
Hand writing without tears books or wooden letters
Math count clip it cards
Troll game – roll dice and place rocks on bridge
Beanstalk number match
Syllable clip it cards
ABC letter goat game
Sequence a story
Puzzles


Other Areas:
“Alone space”  I spy letter bottles, object bottles and bags
Listening center – different stories
Cozy space – stuffed animals to go along with stories
Puppet theater – fairy tale puppets to retell story
Science table – Light table, Fairy garden, Telescope and slides
Special snack – create 3 pig houses – look for a donation sign up soon

AND MUCH MORE!!!!!

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Friday March 6 – 10:30 – Ms Pam from Burnham Library
Wed March 18 – 2:00 – Ms Pam from Burnham Library
Friday March 20 – NO SCHOOL
Thursday March 12 (afternoon) and Friday March 13 – I will be out for appointment.