Our PreSchool Blog

We practiced our words from the farm today as a sneak peak into our theme for November.  These dry erase cards and markers will be available to the students in the writing center during Pre-K classes.  We practiced how to use the materials and clean them up when we are done.  What will we find on the farm this month?

Ms. Lori gave us the opportunity to learn about Adobe Homes today during our art experience.  We learned that adobe homes are found in Mexico and throughout the southwestern United States.  We also learned that these homes are made of a mixture of sand, clay and water and formed into bricks before building They are used in these areas because they help keep the homes cool in the heat of the desert.  We used a sandy mixture to paint our own adobe home in a desert environment.

Most lowercase letters are a smaller version of their uppercase counterpart.  But, there are some lowercase letters that look completely different than their uppercase version.  Some lowercase letters look similar among themselves (q, p, b, d) which makes decoding difficult.  We worked on fine tuning our ability to recognize uppercase and lowercase matches as well as their sounds.  They did a great job!

In small groups today, Pre-Kers combined Math and Literacy as we listened for and identified the initial sounds in words.  Then sorted them by initial sounds.  Hearing each sound in a word is just as important as being able to identify each letter in a word.  Being able to hear each sound prepares students for both reading and writing.  You can practice this skill in a very informal way…traveling to and from school, during bath time, or at the dinner table.  Super easy to make into a game, have fun with it!