Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Today in the Pre School room we started out the morning with a new friend from the high school. Our new friend read many stories to them. The children loved seeing a new face. After circle time we did our morning project with making paper bag puppets. We talked about how their are many different ways to make puppets.

 After our morning project our new friend played in the dramatic area with them. She pretended that she was baking them cookies and they all sat around the table and ate the pretend cookies. It was really fun to watch! Very good little actresses and actors in the classroom!

Keller, Payton, and I built a house and a train track together in the block area. After we built it one way, we would knock it down and make it another way. We used all the blocks in the area to see how many different ways we could build.

We went outside, and Miss Ruth brought her dog by to show the children. All the children wanted her dog to become our class pet! The children played fetch with the dog and had lots of laughs!

In the afternoon we did music and movement with rhythm sticks. Then Malachi and Mia put on a puppet show for us. It was very entertaning.





We ended the day with practicing the sounds of each letter, and writing our last names. We have been working very hard on writing our first and last names.

Tuesday, April 5th,2011

Today in the Pre School room, the children got to decide what they wanted to do today! The children really enjoyed planning out their day. It gave them the opportunity to have a little bit of independence and to see what the children really enjoy through out the normal routine of each day.


We started the day with circle time as normal. We read the story Spring has Sprung, and talked about the four seasons and how each of them are different.  We made a list of all the differences. Then the children decided their morning project should be making necklaces. We made them out of string and beads, we also made matching bracelets. After our morning project was finished we did some free play inside the classroom. Normally free play is about 30 minutes and today they only did 20 minutes of it, which  I was surprise they did not want to go longer.


Before lunch time, Keller said he wanted to go for a walk, and the whole classroom voted and we went for a walk. During our walk, we were watching for birds and squirrels.  We had counted 10 birds and 4 squirrels that we saw on our walk. We also talked about safety when crossing the road as a refresher.

In the afternoon we traced the letter P and came up with words that have P in it or that started with it. The children are really getting so good at knowing the sounds of letters. I was very impressed with how many words they came up with.

We finished up the day by playing outside. Some of the children were playing kick ball and some were playing house.

Toddler News

Early this morning Ms. Tiffiney took out some musical instruments for the children to play with. The children enjoyed running around the room making lots of different sounds.
(gross motor and sharing)

We also played with some of our new friends in our room. They are puppets Fred, Mary, Bob, and Pippy and the children just adore then and love playing with them.
(social skills and language)

Our project of the day was marble painting rain boots for the kids to add to their life size portraits. Some children were also able to make up their finger painted rain coats that we did yesterday and finish coloring their life size portrait.

(fine motor and sensory skills)

Before lunch the children all sat down for story time. Ms. Jessica read Roger's Umbrella and Rainy Day Rhymes.
(listening and langauge skills)

Later this afternoon we hope to get outside and get some fresh air. We will also be playing with play dough and bring out the felt broad with the shapes.
(sensory and fine motor skills)