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.

Preschool Prep had a lesson in sharing! We read Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems and then pretended to share our ice cream with one another; asking, “please?” and replying “thank you!” We discussed how we share all of our toys in our classroom, the same as we shared our ice cream.

Block shadow matching! Our courtyard classroom activity involved matching blocks to their outline on butcher paper

Fine motor skills: Preschool Prep will be working on letter formation in the coming months, and practicing our fine motor skills will help with this development. Lacing is a great fine motor skill to help strengthen the pincer grasp, which is holding objects between the thumb and index finger, such as you would when you hold a pencil.

Block shape match

Bubblewrap Beehive creation!

More lacing! We laced felt pieces onto krazy straws, but we also had to match the colored felt pieces to the right colored straws. They all worked together to make sure all of the pieces were filled up onto the straws.

“S” is for “Skittles”! We built our letter “S” with skittles to use as a new item to practice our pre-writing skills. They all did a great job and got to eat a couple of the non-handled skittles 😊

We worked on fine motor skills by beading the different colors of the rainbow onto pipe cleaners to make a rainbow bracelet!

The early 3’s had fun making circles on white boards and erasing them with paper towels! This was a great way to practice making circles over and over again! We are currently exploring our writing tools and are going to be moving towards a correct writing grip in the coming weeks!

We practiced our fine motor skills today while helping the pilgrims get to the Mayflower.  Crayon grip has really improved in the preschool room! Thanks for all your help at home. We followed the lines and strengthened our  finger muscles.

This afternoon we started practicing our pre-writing skills at our writing center. Natalie and Rohan were concentrating hard on tracing their shapes and letters.