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Monday, March 11, 2019

March - Building theme

Hello Preschool Families: March 2019

Welcoming March with open arms and hopefully warm weather. This month our theme is building: building houses, construction, blocks, different structures around the world, and fun with boxes.

Our dramatic play area will turn into a work bench to use our imagination to build and use tools.

Our block area has a building challenge for the children to try using cardboard pieces, tubes, wooden pieces, and clothes pins. There are also pictures of different buildings and structures from around the world for the children to try and build. The children have construction men, trucks, wooden arches, and blocks as well to use in the block area.

Our classroom was taken over by magical fairies. A wonderful addition for the children to use their imagination and make believe. There are several fairies, gnomes, small house, and pieces for the children to set up a village and play.

Academics this week we started our new sign in where the children are practicing writing their name or part of their name (age and ability depending) They are working very hard. Last week we started our math journals. We will continue our Handwriting Without Tears writing letters or making letters with wooden pieces (age depending). Practicing counting, letter sounds, rhyming, and more.

LETTER CITY
**We pick back up with our letter city this Thursday – O & P. **

Q & R Letter City – WEDNESDAY March 20

S & T Letter City Thursday March 28

***DATES TO REMEMBER***

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY MARCH 22, 2019

Last Week’s Favorites:

Block area – trying to build different building from around the world using the pictures in the block area

Work bench and tools

Fairy garden – they LOVE the fairies!!!

Thanks

Darcie

Fairy garden

With fairies, gnomes, and houses the children can make believe fairies are real and let their imaginations go wild.

Dramatic play area

Warning children at work! The children can use their imagination to dress up as a construction worker. There are tools and work bench to use and pretend to build.

Block area

Building challenge....can the children build different structures? Using different materials and photos for ideas the children are able to build different structures.

This weeks books

Monday, February 18, 2019

This weeks books

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Feb 2019 - Ball and Shape theme

February 2019

This month we are exploring and learning about balls and different shapes. We will talk about basic shapes like circle, square, triangle, rectangle, and more as well as sphere, pyramid, cone, cylinder, and more. We will talk about balls that are used in different sports.

What does that look like in the classroom?

· Reading different books at circle time

· Exploring with the magnetic marble run

· Creating different structures with big and small whiffle balls and pipe cleaners

· Working with a partner to make a ball go through a maze

· Working with a partner to hold a box cover and have a ball go through the hole in the middle of the box

· Sort water beads by color into small dishes

· Create necklaces with beads (sport ball beads)

· Pancake/Waffle Café in dramatic play (pancakes are circles & waffles are square)

· Sing different shape and ball songs

· Different academic jobs – like how many shapes can you count, match the shapes, count different shaped gems, what shape is that

· ABC puzzles, lower case matching, what starts with this letter, and I spy different letters