May 2018

Hello Preschool Families                                                            May 2018

 

For the month of May we will be talking about insects and bugs.  We will learn the body parts of an insect and what makes insects different than bugs.  We will learn some new insect/bug vocabulary words.  We will watch a few educational you tube clips to help teach us about this topic. 

 

This week we are just touching upon the topic and learning what makes an insect.

 

We will have a few new toys out to play with – k'nex, magnet dress up dolls, bristle blocks, alphabet transformers, felt board and felt pieces, and of course magnet tiles.

 

We will have sand with letter sea shells and tools to play with.  Also we will have water beads and bugs in the water tables.

 

Our dress up area will be food, dishes, and babies.  We will build bug homes in our block area.

 

Miss Taylor is ordering us 5 caterpillars to watch turn into a butterflies – hopefully they arrive soon.

 

DATES TO REMEMBER:

I am out this Friday for an all-day conference – Friday May 4

Friday June 15th – Last day of school

 

 

ITEMS TO HELP AND DONATE:

·         Milk caps and lids

·         Black beans

 

Thank you

Darcie

Books this week

This is our last week reading fairy tales. We will be talking about Jack and the Beanstalk. We have several fun activities and projects to go along with this theme this week.

Books this week

This is our last week reading fairy tales. We will be talking about Jack and the Beanstalk. We have several fun activities and projects to go along with this theme this week.

Fwd: Elephant & Piggie

Last Day of School

Our last day of school will be Friday June 15th. 

Retelling the story

Three billy goats to retell story in block area

Gross motor movement

Our bridge to cross like the goats with the troll hiding underneath

Books this week

March newsletter

Hello preschool families:                     

The next couple of weeks we will be reading different stories of the Three Little Pigs, and comparing how they are the same and different.  We will try to act out the story as well.  In our listening center we have a few different fairy tales for the children to listen to on their own. 

We will turn into the big bad wolf and do some straw blowing art, paint pigs at the easel, and create a wanted poster for the wolf.  They will also have time to do free art, and Miss Dawn put a few new things in the free art supplies to "spice it up". 

We will also play a Big Bad Wolf Game where the children will use a straw to blow through to move different materials such as paper, marbles, rocks, feathers and more.  The children will do their best to record what will and will not move down the box when they blow it. 

Our dress up area has turned into a – construction site – the children will need to wear a hard hat and safety glasses to "work" in this area.  They have tools, long blocks to use as wood, tool belts, work boots and gloves, safety goggles, and hard hats.  Lots of fun!!! 

The block area has pigs and wolves in the animal bin.  Retelling the story – The Three Little Pigs using blocks with  the pigs, wolf, and houses taped on them (picture posted on the blog), and different materials to use to build houses with – paper (straw), Popsicle sticks (sticks), small Legos (bricks). 

I also added marble works, Duplo Legos, Locktagon building pieces in our manipulative shelf.

I am hoping to get back to our Letter City homework this week – Our letters this week are Mm and Nn.

Reminder and planning ahead –

*No school this Friday March 23^rd

*Look for the Sign up for a special snack next week – Three Little Pigs Trail Mix

*Wednesday April 11 – No school

*Friday April 20^th – dress up as your favorite fairy tale character

*April 23 – 27 – Spring break NO SCHOOL   

Thank you

Darcie Lehouiller 

Preschool Teacher

Colchester Early Education Program

Malletts Bay School

Block area

Different things to build houses...straw, sticks, and bricks. Retelling the story with block pieces.

Construction site

Our dress up area

Books this week