Our PreSchool Blog

We cleaned off some pigs to reveal a hidden letter underneath all of that mud! They did a great job naming the letter and its sound

Each week we focus on a new letter, and then use it in our daily activities. We learn about our letter of the week during small group time, such as what it looks like and how it sounds, and then implement the letter into our daily activities. Because repetition is a crucial part of a toddlers’ learning, we then use our letter of the week in our morning activity tables and even for art projects!

This activity is all about exploring their names to help the boys and girls begin to recognize them. Recognizing their names is the first step to early literacy.  Their names have meaning and value to them…it’s personal.  One of the best places to start early letter recognition is through name activities.  Be sure to make it fun…write it with chalk when you’re playing outside…write it in the sandbox or even in the steam on the bathroom mirror after bath time.  If you’re feeling adventurous use play dough to spell it!  The great thing about play-based, name recognition activities is they won’t even know their learning…they’ll just know their spending time with you!

In small groups with Ms. Caroline, the boys and girls are working on letter recognition! For some of the children, they match letter magnets with letters on a sheet. Others are working on matching the letters in their name. No matter what the children are working on, this is a great way to introduce letters, sounds and their names. The boys and girls have so much fun playing and learning with these games!

We worked our fine motor muscles during our phonics study last week.  Our focus letter was the letter Ss!  After singing out letter s song during group time, we came up with words that started with the letter s as we used clips to pinch the poms and build our letter s.  There are many ways to build small motor muscles.  They are critical to becoming a great writer.  Keep working those fingers!

We turned our eyes to the night sky on Friday and learned about constellations.  Many of the students were already familiar with the big and little dipper…we were impressed!  We used our newly learned knowledge of constellations to create our own in the shape of our focus letter:  Oo.  Using our small motor muscles in our hands, we punched holes in black paper with a toothpick, then held it up to the light to reveal our constellations!  Be sure to check out the night sky this week to see if you can spot the big dipper!  Send us some pics of your little one star gazing…we’d love to add it to our blog post!