Our PreSchool Blog

We are raising children in such a busy world with busy parents, video games, and competitive sports.  These influences can be stressful to our little ones over a long period of time.  This busy pace can have a large impact on their inner joy-usually not for the better.  Children’s yoga can help counter these pressures by learning self-health and relaxation techniques.  Early yoga can also act as a physical activity that is not competitive.  Children learn body awareness; enhance flexibility, coordination and strength.  Yoga also encourages better concentration and an improved sense of calmness and relaxation.  We thought this was a great way to end the year!

It’s hard to believe that the school year has come to and end.  It wouldn’t be complete without some special time to enjoy our friends, favorite activities and watching movies. We had a memorable last two days in our PJ’s!

Summer has yet to make it’s official arrival, however, the weather has fooled us!  To kick off the season to come, we made Summer Fruit Pizza.  This delicious, kid friendly recipe was a blast to make, and even more fun to eat!

Summer Fruit Pizza:

Pillsburry pizza dough

Cream Cheese

Blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, bananas, and mandarin oranges

Directions:

1. Bake pizza crust according to package directions

2. Cut up fruit while pizza dough is cooking

3. Spread cooked dough with cream cheese, and then top with cut up fruit

We put our lessons into practice today and REUSED our milk cartons to create a NEW bird feeder!  I would love some pictures to add to the blog of those great creations hanging in your tree!

Today we reviewed our numbers 11-20, practiced our counting and one to one correspondence skills….recycling style.  These are important activities to continue to review throughout the summer!

Today, we continued to work on our numbers, focusing on 11-20.  As the children rolled the die, they turned the number number they rolled into a higher number by placing a one in front of it.  For example, if they rolled a six, it would become sixteen.  This was a new and exciting way to practice our numbers!

We also practiced our number recognition and one-to-one correspondence.  The boys and girls picked a number, then put the corresponding frogs onto their lily pads.

A new month means a new theme: Go Green!  As we learn about recycling, the children explore the new activities in each center.  We spent time today learning about the new activities and how they are used.

We strengthened our small motor muscles today while exploring with color mixing.  Small muscles in our hands must be strong to be successful writers!

Our focus during small groups today was one to one correspondence and number recognition of numbers zero through twenty.

Understanding the one-to-one correspondence of object to object is necessary before a child can carry out meaningful counting and higher calculations.

Children can find many opportunities in their daily life to experience one-to-one correspondence. They can place one sock inside one shoe or one shoe on one foot; they can get one napkin or snack for each member of the family or class; they can place one lid on each of several containers; they can place pieces in one-piece puzzles.

Many experts believe that rote memorization of a set of numbers is meaningless.  Once children understand the relationship of one to one correspondence, they can link one number with one object and then count with understanding.