Our PreSchool Blog

Today we practiced numbers 1,2, and 3!

Ms. Katy lead a Number Hunt on our Smartboard in search for all the number 1’s. The preschoolers strengthened their fine motor muscles and practiced drawing circles during their hunt.

We worked with 1, 2, and 3 while practicing Slap-a-Number from our homework folder activities.

We ended our day of number fun by watching “10 Little Numbers.” The preschoolers LOVE watching videos on the Smartboard and these songs are a great way to help your little one learn letters, numbers, shapes, and colors. They are fun, educational, and easy to search on YouTube!

Today we used our Smartboard have fun and recognize our names. We reinforced our shape of the month and practiced drawing circles. The Smartboard is a great for fine motor muscles and hand eye coordination as well!

Welcome to Preschool! We have been working on procedures, routines, and adjusting to the new classroom environment.

Every morning, we answer our Question of the Day on the smartboard before choosing a center for free choice.

The rain may have kept us indoors but the weather didn’t stop our fun! We worked on our gross motor inside on the balance beam and slide.

During small groups we practiced how to hold our crayon with our thumb and pointer fingers pinching the top of the crayon. We learned about and traced circles while strengthening our fine motor muscles.

Also during small groups we explored our Handwriting Without Tears program.

At the end of our morning we stretched our bodies and relaxed our minds during yoga. What pose was your favorite??

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.

Throughout the year we have been working on our shapes, along with our fine motor skills.  Today, the children celebrated spring on this beautiful day by cutting out shapes that had spring pictures on them, and then strung them onto yarn.  The children loved creating their very own spring necklaces!

Touching on social studies, the boys and girls created their very own Australian flag! The blue represents vigilance, truth and loyalty.  The white stands for peace and honesty.  The red stands for bravery and strength.  The boys and girls did an excellent job creating these works of art!

February 2nd never goes unnoticed!  Today, the children learned what a groundhog is, where it lives and who the most famous groundhog in the world is.  After watching a video of Punxatawny Phil, the children made their very own groundhogs.  We also worked on our cognition with groundhog concentration.  Have you asked your child if Phil saw his shadow today?

Today we made….you guessed it!  Patterns!  Using our pattern blocks, we created ABABAB patterns using shapes and colors.  We also used pattern block templates to discover the shapes and how they work together.  They also learned how to use simple objects at home to create a pattern.

Rectangles are so similar to squares, they are easy to confuse!  They boys and girls were rectangle detectives today as we found items around the room that were in the shape of a rectangle.  We prepared ourselves by reading a book about rectangles and discussing the similarities and differences between rectangles and squares.  Can’t get much past these boys and girls!

Even though our snow has melted, that doesn’t keep us from building our own snowman!  Today, we made paper mache snowmen.  Mixing equal parts water and flour, the children got ooey gooey by slathering our balloon snowmen with pasty newspaper.  This two-part project has a ways to go.  Next Thursday, we will get to decorate the snowmen by getting ooey gooey again when making them white (shaving cream anyone?!), and topping them off with their proper decorations.  We can’t wait to to see the finished product!