Our PreSchool Blog

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  • Exploring Our Classroom

    It has been a month since the start of the school year so our students have gotten a chance to familiarize themselves with their different choices for free play, and most already have favorites! Talk with your child about which center they enjoy playing at the most each day 🙂

     

    We love learning through play, especially when doing art projects! We have been incorporating the color yellow into several art activities so far this month. Encouraging young children to use different types of tools for art is great for their creative thinking and sensory skills. We got to smell the lemon and taste it, before using it to paint–using multiple senses to reinforce our lesson!

           

    Keep following along to learn about some of our small group activities, and for a sneak peak at alphabet books and color books!

  • 2018 Back to School Carnival

     

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  • Party in the Park Celebration

     

     

     

  • Last Day of School- Awards Ceremony!

    The Preschoolers had a fun “red carpet” event today where they received an award from their teachers!

  • Preschool Fiesta!

    We had a Mexican Fiesta today and it was “muy divertido!”

  • Kids Olympics Day!

    USA USA! The Preschool classes had a blast at our Olympic themed party today!

    Olympic torch snacks

    “No hands” race to the gummy worm! Get ready for some messy faces!

  • Tots Beach Party!

    In the AM and PM preschool classes we are celebrating the end of the school year with themed parties each day! Today’s party was beach themed!

    We made ocean themed snacks!

    We competed in beach ball relay races!

    We made our own water slide with spray bottles! 

    We ate our snacks on our beach towels outside!

    Ocean water play

        

  • Let’s Go to the Zoo!

    This week our activities revolved around the zoo…From letters and numbers to crafts and science lessons!

    To help us with correct scissor grip, we put smiley face stickers on our thumbs. The goal is to keep our thumbs to the sky, always looking to see that smiley face!

  • Bug Week

    This week was “bug week”! Each day the students learned about a different bug. All of the activities and snacks for the day revolved around that specific bug!  Check out these thematic lessons below!

    Measuring with gummy worms

    At group time, I demonstrated how a bee goes from flower to flower drinking their nectar and collecting pollen to bring back to the bee hive.

    I then had the kids hold out their hands to act as flowers.

  • Insect Adventures in Preschool

    Spring has arrived, and we have started learning about bugs and plant life! We read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and retold the story with pictures cards.  We then acted out the butterfly life cycle!

    Butterfly Life Cycle Part 1: The mama butterfly lays her egg on a leaf.

    Butterfly Life Cycle Part 2: A caterpillar emerges from the egg and is out searching for food.

    Butterfly Life Cycle Part 3: The caterpillar wraps itself in a cocoon or chrysalis.

    Butterfly Life Cycle Part 4: After a couple weeks, the caterpillar breaks from the cocoon and….

    …turns into a beautiful butterfly!