Our PreSchool Blog

Preschool Prep is working hard on not only recognizing our letters we have introduced, but learning how to build them. In Preschool Prep, we won’t start forming letters using a writing utensil (ie: pencil, marker, crayon) just yet, but we use other materials that help us learn how letters are formed. Playdough is a favorite sensory item to use to manipulate it into letters. Check out the photos below of how our little learners are starting their letter formation using playdough.

We have also been doing a lot of counting practice in our small groups. Being able to use items to count out loud is great practice of one to one correspondence. We will be continuing our practice of one to one correspondence throughout the year, but we have had a great introduction to this with some of our small group activities. We counted people into houses, and counted our fingerprints in another activity.

The Toddler + Preschool Prep class has been hard at work this October! We have been using our Halloween theme as focus for some of our small group activities.

In one group, we fed different colored “Lego Monsters” that only eat Legos that match the color of their faces.

We also used a “spiderweb” to match shapes. They got to pick a shape and then stick it to the sticky spiderweb onto the shape it matched!

We are always trying to work in fine motor practice any chance we can get! Routine practice of using the thumb and finger grasp will help develop and refine their fine motor skills. Our students did a great job of stacking spider rings onto orange straws 🙂

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.

We are hard at work with our fine motor skills in the Preschool room.  We used all types of tongs to count out frogs and hop them onto their lily pads!

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!

Using our new sight word for the week, we created our own sight word sentence to practice and to illustrate.  Reading sentences provides the students with an opportunity to practice one to one correspondence, directional movement (reading left to right), develop the understanding of the differences between letters and words, and recognize familiar sight words.

I see Georgie.

I see the flower.

I see the pumpkin.

I see Mator.

I see the truck.

Wednesday was a special day with a special treat.

Happy Birthday Miss Sarah!!!

We practiced one to one correspondence in our Math Study group today as well as number recognition review.  These are important foundational skills we will need for the start of our Kindergarten year!