Our PreSchool Blog

During the month of March we studied the weather and rainbows. We talked about how clouds are formed and did a science experiment to learn how rain falls from the clouds. Then we did a rainy day art project and talked about what we liked to do on rainy days. A lot of our little learners said they liked to jump in puddles. We did a pretend puddle jump and jumped on puddles with different letters on them!

For St. Patty’s Day activities we talked about rainbows and the order of the colors of the rainbow. We also did a shamrock letter match. The students used stickers with letters on them and matched them to stickers on their shamrock.

Summer seems far away, but it’s just around the corner…Registration is now open! Classes will be smaller, but the fun will be endless.

We have had a great January so far. Below are some of the activities we have been doing in our class this month!

We love making art that can tie into our letter of the week, building on our motor skills, and/or practicing using our different art materials such as a glue stick, holding a paint brush properly, or practicing safe scissor skills. Sometimes we do free art, and sometimes we do art in which our preschool prep learners are following step by step directions.

We also like to use items in our art to make for a different sensory experience. We painted with legos to reinforce our shape of the month, rectangle, to make an igloo. We also used white paint to reinforce our color, too! We used oranges to paint with the color orange, because orange begins with the letter “O”.

N is for Noodles + Numbers! We had a fun sensory bin using colored noodles and talked about the different characteristics of the noodles. Were they warm or cold? What colors were they? Did they feel slimy, sticky, dry? We also went on a number scavenger hunt in our classroom!

We had so much fun in our class this week!  The costumes were so fun and lots of crafts, games, and a mummy snack!

Preschool Prep is working hard on not only recognizing our letters we have introduced, but learning how to build them. In Preschool Prep, we won’t start forming letters using a writing utensil (ie: pencil, marker, crayon) just yet, but we use other materials that help us learn how letters are formed. Playdough is a favorite sensory item to use to manipulate it into letters. Check out the photos below of how our little learners are starting their letter formation using playdough.

We have also been doing a lot of counting practice in our small groups. Being able to use items to count out loud is great practice of one to one correspondence. We will be continuing our practice of one to one correspondence throughout the year, but we have had a great introduction to this with some of our small group activities. We counted people into houses, and counted our fingerprints in another activity.

Preschool Prep had a lesson in sharing! We read Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems and then pretended to share our ice cream with one another; asking, “please?” and replying “thank you!” We discussed how we share all of our toys in our classroom, the same as we shared our ice cream.

Block shadow matching! Our courtyard classroom activity involved matching blocks to their outline on butcher paper

Fine motor skills: Preschool Prep will be working on letter formation in the coming months, and practicing our fine motor skills will help with this development. Lacing is a great fine motor skill to help strengthen the pincer grasp, which is holding objects between the thumb and index finger, such as you would when you hold a pencil.

Block shape match

Bubblewrap Beehive creation!

More lacing! We laced felt pieces onto krazy straws, but we also had to match the colored felt pieces to the right colored straws. They all worked together to make sure all of the pieces were filled up onto the straws.

Preschool Prep had such a great first week of school. We focused on getting to know our classroom and our new friends on the first day. Then, we started learning our schedule and how our days are going to look. Our last day involved practicing taking turns and raising our hands during group time. They did so well, and I am so excited to watch how much they learn and grow this year!

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In the Preschool Prep classroom, we have been meeting with monsters! We counted eyes onto monsters, fed Legos to Lego monsters, and we fed an alphabet monster!

We used a die with numbers on it for extra number recognition, and whichever number came up, that was the number of eyes that the students counted onto their monster.

Lego Monsters only like to eat Legos that match them!

Marvin the Alphabet Monster loves to eat letters! You have to tell him the sound they make before you feed them to him though 😉

You can also see some of the process behind our blow art monsters