Feb academic

Clip its - count the shape, match shape, match geometric shapes
Recognizing letters
Cookie shapes

Block area

Castle blocks and fun block add ones

Work with a friend

This week group time

Feb dramatic play

Books this week

This weeks books

This week we will read books about going to the grocery store. We will talk about eating healthy foods.

Week of Dec 10 - 14

Hello Preschool Families

We are still reading books written and illustrated by Eric Carle.  The books for this week have been posted on the blog.  We will have a special snack of blue jello and cool whip to represent the story Little Cloud.  In the story Little Cloud the cloud changes shapes and turns into other objects.  On Friday we will follow up with the story It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw and see what how the stories are similar and different.  The children have been working VERY hard this month on a special surprise for the Book Share (Dec 20, 2018).  We hope to see you there. 

A few other things that are new in our classroom - the dress up area is back to a house area, but I added baby items for the children to play with.  Our magnet wall is going to have a marble run on it - so the children can explore different ways to make the marbles go down.  Brown Bear has been busy in the block area to create ta new challenge for the children to make.  Our water table will have shaving cream and animals...we will pretend the shaving cream are clouds in the sky.  I added a new yoga pose - ask your child to show it to you....it is the Zigzag pose.  And finally the new area in our classroom is the FREE ART AREA - where the children can go and be as creative as they want and use their artistic skills. 

Have a great week - we will be busy here learning and playing .

Books this week

Books this week

Our books this week

This month we start our new theme. We will read books that Eric Carle wrote and illustrated

weekly update

Last week the children had a lot of fun learning more about Henri Matisse - his different styles during his lifetime.  They loved creating their own still life paintings using water color paints.

This week - we will wrap up our learning about Matisse - how he used scissors to create art.  We will also use scissors to create art and then use cookie cutters to dip in paint and spell our names on our art work.  We will display these on our bulletin board in the back of our room.  We will also try to make stain glass art by coloring on transparent sheets.  We will be working on another project, but that will be a surprise for families - sorry I cannot say anymore.  We will also talk about being thankful.  What does thankful mean?  We will talk about different things we are thankful for and create a thankful for book.


This year I am giving the children different BLOCK CHALLENGES -  so this week we will try to put blocks on shape mats to match the different shaped blocks on the mat.  We will also keep our I can build block cards out to give suggestions on different structures the children can build.

We will add sand in our sensory table along with animals, so the children can use their imaginations at the sensory table.

We will start weekly jobs after the break so we have been talking about each job and modeling what the job expectations are. 

Reminder there is NO SCHOOL next week - Nov 19 - 23 for Thanksgiving break.

Conferences are Nov 19 & 20 a sign up genius link went out for sign ups - or call the main office to schedule one with Jeanne.

Thanks
Darcie

Books this week

Here are the books we will read at group this week.