Our PreSchool Blog

We learned about the different blankets that are made in Mexico during small groups today.  We designed and decorated our own Mexican style blanket with Ms. Barbara and read Pretty Blankets by Bruce Larkin during reading groups.  As a special treat we we visited Bruce Larkin’s website and listened to him read his book to us as we watched the animation.  We were introduced to three new sight words today, this, on, and has.  These words are found in our new book for the week.  We reviewed these words along with our previous words in a fun game of Bingo.  We also found a few of our animal friends we have been learning about on our Bingo Cards.   Keep reviewing the sight words during homework time!

One of our very special friends in Pre-K brought his favorite book and read it to us for his show and share day…Nice Work!

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?

We continued working on our Silly Town small group reading books today with a focus on the sight word “is.”  We will finish the book this week and begin a new book on Monday titled, Pretty Blankets.  This book focus on four sight words; has, this, on, and it.  To give your child a head start, you can begin practicing these words during homework time in the evenings.

We began reading our big book, Silly Sally, this week during our shared reading time.  We will continue this book through next week.  The students made their own books during reading groups this week called, Silly Town.  We will be finishing those by the end of next week.  The focus sight word this week, continues to be “is.”  I am so proud of all the students, they are working hard at home and at school on the sight words and it is paying off big time!  They are recognizing the words more quickly every day.  Way to go everyone!

We started our Shared Reading Activities on Monday in Pre-K!  The first book we’re reading in Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See? We’re working on the parts of book (words and illustrations on each page), author, illustrator and title.  We will be searching for our sight words and much more.  We began reading Zoo Animals in Reading Groups this week and the sight word, is, was introduced on Monday.  Keep up with the homework activities four times per week!  This REALLY makes a difference in the growth and progress of your child.  Keep up the good work.

What's the Title of our Book?

We reread our book, Making Bubbles today and became the author to create a new sentence to add to the book.  We were blowing bubbles outside at recess so decided to add ourselves to the book (WE ARE BLOWING BUBBLES.)  We cut the sentence apart and took turns recognizing the words and putting the sentence back together.  Nice work everyone!

We had our first reading groups in PreK class today.  The children have gotten off to a GREAT start!  I can’t wait to see them grow and develop their literacy skills over the next nine months!