Our PreSchool Blog

From rainbows to pot’s of gold, the PM preschool class fully embraced the St. Patrick’s Day theme this past week!

We made our own rainbow snacks!

We went on a gold hunt and matched uppercase/ lowercase letters!

We participated in a letter identification and hand strength activity by feeding our “tennis ball people” gold coins and naming the letters on each coin. We love to incorporate multiple objectives into one lesson!

Another multiple objective lesson: counting and fine motor!

We played “roll, count and graph” using rainbow jelly beans!

S is for skittles!

Each month, the afternoon preschool class focuses on a specific habitat for their science unit. February we learned about the African Savannah! While we learned about many animals, we had a whole day dedicated to the giraffe!

We started with an art craft- giraffe hats!

For literacy, we got our bodies moving with a Giraffe Letter Recognition Hop!

For Music and movement/ indoor recess, the kids participated in some African Animal Yoga!

We learned that the giraffe has a purple tongue! We tried to make our tongues purple by eating some purple candies!

African animal water play was out for the children during our independent center time.

We strengthened our hands and fine motor skills by making giraffe colored bracelets, cutting play dough and painting with Q-tips!

For math, we measured all different sizes of toy giraffes with unifix cubes

Along with our winter themed activities, we are learning about “responsibility”. To help teach this, the students each have a classroom job they are responsible for weekly! They have really taken ownership of these responsibilities. We are promoting independence and autonomy in the classroom!

Cutting icicles (we brought a real one in from outside to observe and touch)!

With all of the snow and cold weather we received this week, we could not go outside for recess…this meant we had to bring some snow inside! We painted snow, and made “Mr. Potato Head” snow people!

We had to get some wiggles out with some parachute fun!

We learned all about the polar bear this week! We based many of our activities around this animal. The students fed and counted fish into a polar bear’s mouth, made polar bear puppets and learned about how the polar bear camouflages with its surroundings. The kids took turns camouflaging a toy polar bear with other white objects around the room, as the animal would in its arctic habitat.

“My Mistletoes” Art Project!

Fine motor and letter formation with our “pokey pin” activity

Christmas Cutting Center!

L is for Lights

The afternoon Preschool class is having a blast getting involved in our holiday themed activities this month!

Acting out the 5 Little Snowmen poem!

Letter Formation on Santa’s Sleigh!

Snowman Number recognition!

Holiday Prewriting!

Magnetic Sensory Bins! 

Letter J is for Jingle bell craft (The J also happens to look like a candy cane, which we were able to recreate in the craft!).

Decorating the tree as we hunt for our numbers!

Roll, Cover, Write!

Open ended gumdrop creations!

The Preschool class enjoyed celebrating Thanksgiving together and eating the wonderful feast they prepared!