The KPrep class has been learning about the forest habitat this month. Recently we have been focusing on the brown bear. We read “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” and made a bear hunt treasure map!
The KPrep class has been learning about the forest habitat this month. Recently we have been focusing on the brown bear. We read “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” and made a bear hunt treasure map!
We have changed out our centers in the preschool and kprep room for the month of October! Here are a few of the centers below.
The Light Table Center
Students can practice identifying their letters and forming words on the light table.
The Art Center
Ms. Taylor made pumpkin scented play dough for the art center! Students can make shapes and prints in the play dough.
The Block Center
There are many forest themed animals and different natural blocks to use at this center. It really brings out the students’ imaginations and creativity.
The Library Center
Students can read books or listen to them on tape in our comfy library center.
The Dramatic Play Center
This center resembles a home environment and lets students use their imaginations to take care of baby dolls.
The Tower Center
There is currently a superhero theme in the tower! There are many books, superhero cars, action figures and more!
The Manipulative Center
This center allows students to put parts together and create different objects. This center often promotes teamwork.
The Writing Center
This center has different, fun writing utensils and a new word wall! The students can practice writing new words or writing letters to friends. The classroom mailbox is located at this center as well!
Happy October! With the new month, we have introduced a new habitat in science: the forest. The KPrep students have learned about different animals that can be found in the forest, specifically the great gray owl. We have completed some fun forest themed art projects as well!
We have introduced a new science discovery center in KPrep! It is currently inspired by our forest habitat theme! There are many natural forest items in the center, along with fun learning activities and thematic books!
What a fun week of math! We have started a new “Number of the Day” activity that we have been completing during our first whole group meeting time. This has taught the students about different ways to make a number!
The students practiced number recognition and counting by rolling a set of dice, counting the dots on the dice and feeding their tennis ball friend a chip with that number on it! This game is great for our fine motor skills and is fun too!
Since it is almost October, we made spiders using our math skills! We matched up the number of dots on its legs to the numbers on its body.
We did a fun math/literacy lesson this week. We read the book, “Chicka, Chicka, 1, 2, 3” as a whole group. The book is about different numbers climbing up an apple tree. It was only fitting that the kids would be able to snack on tasty, sliced apples during the reading! Afterwards, in small groups the students counted certain numbers of “apples” and used tongs to place them onto their felt apple trees! Another good fine motor activity!
The K-Prep class has been working so hard on their numbers and counting! This week we were able to count using some fun materials!
We counted beads onto pipe cleaners! This helped us practice some fine motor skills!
Because our science theme has been about ponds this month, we counted frogs onto lily pads!
We also sorted and counted yummy skittles. We even got to eat a few!
We have introduced a mailbox to our writing center! Students have been practicing writing letters to friends in our classroom. In small groups we all wrote a letter to home and took a walk to the post office next door to mail our letters!
This week the K-Prep class continued learning about numbers! We practiced counting (0-20), number formation, and putting numbers into the correct order.
We also read the book “Snappy Little Numbers”, which was a fun and interactive way to practice counting!
This week in math, the K-Prep class worked on making their numbers using the correct formation! We sang fun number poems to help us, which can be found in the students’ homework binders. Throughout the week we built on this skill of forming numbers, while trying to accommodate many learning styles!
The students traced tactile yarn numbers with their fingers, drew numbers in sand trays, and traced dotted numbers using dry and erase markers! A dry and erase writing activity is also found in the homework binder. You can never get too much practice!
What a fun and busy week of learning!
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