Counting, color matching, prewriting, fine motor and more!
Counting, color matching, prewriting, fine motor and more!
What a busy week for the Preschool Prep class! One of the many lessons they were able to do this week was called “Mitten Math”. By engaging in this activity, the students were able to work on their counting skills as well as their one to one correspondence.
In another activity, students were able to work on their prewriting skills. They did this by drawing letters and shapes into salt trays. They all had fun being creative and practicing what they have learned through this sensory experience!
Another activity that everyone really enjoyed was the winter letter hunt! The kids had to dig through white winter sensory materials to find a letter. They had to then identify the name and sound of that letter.
The boys and girls were singing twinkle twinkle little star all day today! We counted the points on a star, found different color stars on the floor and of course sang some star songs!
Pond water was murky and cloudy and gross!
What is all that green stuff floating around? Algae!
Cat tails were fun to break open. They are so soft and fuzzy.
We learned how lily pads are covered with a waxy coating, like wax paper, that’s why they float!
Time to make our very own Pond Habitat! First the water, then the algae, then the cat tails!
We loved learning about the Pond. Now we’re off to the Forest Habitat!
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!
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!
Our ocean unit study took us outside to roll and count on HUGE dice!
Find the correct numeral that matches what we rolled and counted and color it in!
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