The Preschool Prep class is working hard and having fun learning about letters, shapes, colors, numbers and more!
The Preschool Prep class is working hard and having fun learning about letters, shapes, colors, numbers and more!
Our letter of the week was the letter “R” and we had fun making Rockets, using Red stickers to build the letter “r”, and we had Raisins for snack on an “R” placemat!
The Preschool Prep class has been learning a lot and having a blast while doing so! The students were able to make alphabet soup and fish out one letter at a time with a ladle. They were asked to identify the letter and the sound it makes!
For some fine motor and hand strength practice, they were able to use tongs to transfer white marshmallows into muffin tins! We were able to eat a few fresh ones afterwards 🙂
We also were able to explore our sense of sound! The children took turns shaking the mystery eggs and “predicting” what might be inside. Some of them came as a surprise to us!
We had fun learning about different farm animals! We listened to the sounds they make, their colors, and sorted between the big animals and little animals. In art, we did “H” is for “horse” and put cotton balls onto sticky paper to make fluffy sheep. We also cleaned our animals with toothbrushes and sponges to practice fine motor skills.
Our toddlers have had a lot of practice with triangles so far this month. Because we know how important repetition is in order for our toddlers to learn, we incorporated triangles into most of our daily activities! Below you can see how we implement the triangle into different parts of our day.
At our art center our friends practiced sticking tissue paper triangles onto contact paper on our easel.
In one of our small groups we practiced using a glue stick to paste triangles on a bigger triangle and made a triangle mosaic. We also used triangle sponges to paint triangles onto our triangle paper. In the other small group, we made triangles, using popsicle sticks, and practiced counting the 3 sides.
Our toddler friends practiced using a glue stick again in their art project with Ms. Kristen! They made owls using the triangle, too!
We even used snack time to practice making triangles with pretzel rods!
This week we began adding our Morning Table into our day! Each day when the children come in, there is a fun activity for them to do on the table. Sometimes it may be literacy related, shape related, or number related. Other days it might just be some messy fun! This week, one of our activities was working on the letter of the week, Letter A, and some fine motor practice as well! Peeling off stickers is a great activity for your child to work on their fine motor skills at home too!
We have been working hard to strengthen our fine motor skills in the preschool room! Since we just visited Sunrock Farm, we added a farm animal twist to the lesson this week!
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