What a great Thursday we had in our classroom today from drop off, playing, beautiful weather, earthquake drill and a tear free pick up. I say we are in our groove and we are going to have a great school year! It is amazing to see the progress that has already taken place in the three weeks that we have been in school, I am super excited to see where the rest of the school year leads us. God granted us with beautiful weather today and so we took full advantage of it and played outside for an extended period of time. On our way back to the classroom we took the scenic way and as we were just going to go back into the building, our school had an earthquake drill so we headed back the direction we came and went with the rest of the entire school onto the soccer fields and waited to be accounted for so our outside time was even longer than anticiapted. I have learned in the years of teaching this age that you have to go with the flow and it is not worth getting upset about the small stuff. Did we get all we wanted to get done today nope will it be there next week YEP did we have a great day YES WE DID and that was so worth not getting everything done! I hope you enjoy vieiwing the pics of our day and getting a peek into our world each day......Enjoy!
Sensory
This week we opened up the sensory table. We were are all new to the classroom so this was pretty exciting to see what was in there. Currently we have uncooked rice in the table with scoops, cups, plates and spoons to play with in there. The sensory table will be changed periodically through out the course of the year with different things for us to play with and explore. It will be open most mornings when my friends arrive at school. This is a great way for us to play and feel with different textures and work on our pouring and scooping skills. Our number one rule for the sensory table is that we need to keep whatever is in the table in the table.
This week we opened up the sensory table. We were are all new to the classroom so this was pretty exciting to see what was in there. Currently we have uncooked rice in the table with scoops, cups, plates and spoons to play with in there. The sensory table will be changed periodically through out the course of the year with different things for us to play with and explore. It will be open most mornings when my friends arrive at school. This is a great way for us to play and feel with different textures and work on our pouring and scooping skills. Our number one rule for the sensory table is that we need to keep whatever is in the table in the table.
First Round of Centers
Starting this week we will be adding in more centers to our day. The way centers will work is they will be the same all week and your child will do a variety of centers on a particular day. If they do not do it on the first day the attend school they will do it on another day they attend. This allows for us to work with a smaller group of children and to be able to accomplish all we want to during our school day. This is how our half day preschool classrooms run and some of our full day classrooms. I try my best to mimic the same way accomplish things in preschool in our ELP classroom so the transition to preschool is a smooth and happy one!
Cookie Monster likes to Eat One Big Cookie
To help us review the color blue and the number one we practiced our pre writing skills by coloring cookie monster with the color blue and then using a glue stick to place glue on a brown cookie that we glued onto Cookie Monsters hands. After we had our cookie glued on we had our pointer finger painted with black paint so we could turn our cookie into a chocolate chip cookie. This activity also allowed for us to talk about what kind of cookies we like to eat.
Starting this week we will be adding in more centers to our day. The way centers will work is they will be the same all week and your child will do a variety of centers on a particular day. If they do not do it on the first day the attend school they will do it on another day they attend. This allows for us to work with a smaller group of children and to be able to accomplish all we want to during our school day. This is how our half day preschool classrooms run and some of our full day classrooms. I try my best to mimic the same way accomplish things in preschool in our ELP classroom so the transition to preschool is a smooth and happy one!
Cookie Monster likes to Eat One Big Cookie
To help us review the color blue and the number one we practiced our pre writing skills by coloring cookie monster with the color blue and then using a glue stick to place glue on a brown cookie that we glued onto Cookie Monsters hands. After we had our cookie glued on we had our pointer finger painted with black paint so we could turn our cookie into a chocolate chip cookie. This activity also allowed for us to talk about what kind of cookies we like to eat.
One Slice of Blueberry Pie!
Today to help us wrap up our study of the color blue we used a q-tip and blue paint and made blueberries in our one slice of pie. We were also able to incorporate the number we have been working with by having one slice of pie. This activity allowed for us to work on our fine motor skills as we had to hold the q-tip with our finger and thumb, dip it into the paint and then dab it onto our slice of pie. As we worked on this activity we talked about what color we were using and what kind of pie we like to eat.
Today to help us wrap up our study of the color blue we used a q-tip and blue paint and made blueberries in our one slice of pie. We were also able to incorporate the number we have been working with by having one slice of pie. This activity allowed for us to work on our fine motor skills as we had to hold the q-tip with our finger and thumb, dip it into the paint and then dab it onto our slice of pie. As we worked on this activity we talked about what color we were using and what kind of pie we like to eat.
Morning Meeting
Happy Thursday! The first picture in this series shows how great we are doing sitting at Morning Meeting, we started off by saying Happy Wednesday! We then sang our Morning song to get to know our friends name, we added the calendar today as we talked about the month of September the day of the week and the number 1. We then reviewed the color blue and identified different blue objects on our blue board and sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We then practiced counting the number one by clapping our hands one time, nodding our heads one time and rubbing our bellies one time. We also practiced holding up our one finger to work on our finger muscles. We then read Going To School. We closed our morning meeting with a prayer for snack.
Happy Thursday! The first picture in this series shows how great we are doing sitting at Morning Meeting, we started off by saying Happy Wednesday! We then sang our Morning song to get to know our friends name, we added the calendar today as we talked about the month of September the day of the week and the number 1. We then reviewed the color blue and identified different blue objects on our blue board and sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We then practiced counting the number one by clapping our hands one time, nodding our heads one time and rubbing our bellies one time. We also practiced holding up our one finger to work on our finger muscles. We then read Going To School. We closed our morning meeting with a prayer for snack.
Snack Time Jesus Time
After we washed our hands and went potty we sat down for our yummy snacks. Please remember that all food entering our classroom has to be peanut and tree nut free and each child needs a cup in spill proof cup. After snack we had Jesus Time where we talked about how we pray to God and then we read a book about praying. We then sang Jesus Loves Me and practiced saying an echo prayer
Outside Play
We did go outside today for a long period of time it was really hot out, but it was nice to get out and explore! We are practicing standing on the owls in our classroom so that we can be ready to head outside. We all did great outside today!
After we washed our hands and went potty we sat down for our yummy snacks. Please remember that all food entering our classroom has to be peanut and tree nut free and each child needs a cup in spill proof cup. After snack we had Jesus Time where we talked about how we pray to God and then we read a book about praying. We then sang Jesus Loves Me and practiced saying an echo prayer
Outside Play
We did go outside today for a long period of time it was really hot out, but it was nice to get out and explore! We are practicing standing on the owls in our classroom so that we can be ready to head outside. We all did great outside today!
EarthQuake Drill
Well last week we experienced our first fire drill which we did great at! Today we did an earthquake drill, we were not inside when we began the drill, we were heading back inside we got to the school door and we turned around went back down the stairs we had just climbed and headed to the soccer field with the rest of the main school and junior high students. We were the littlest ones on the field and we did AN AWESOME JOB! We all sat down and were very quiet and stayed there till we were given the all clear. Once it was cleared for us to go back in we waited till everyone else headed back in and then we were the last ones to leave the field. I had many teachers come to me later in the day and comment on how great our little friends did! We have been made to feel so welcome in the main building and my little friends are bringing lots of joy and smiles to those in the main building and it is a great expereince to witness and be a part of!
Well last week we experienced our first fire drill which we did great at! Today we did an earthquake drill, we were not inside when we began the drill, we were heading back inside we got to the school door and we turned around went back down the stairs we had just climbed and headed to the soccer field with the rest of the main school and junior high students. We were the littlest ones on the field and we did AN AWESOME JOB! We all sat down and were very quiet and stayed there till we were given the all clear. Once it was cleared for us to go back in we waited till everyone else headed back in and then we were the last ones to leave the field. I had many teachers come to me later in the day and comment on how great our little friends did! We have been made to feel so welcome in the main building and my little friends are bringing lots of joy and smiles to those in the main building and it is a great expereince to witness and be a part of!
Music & Movment
We came back in after the earthquake drill and did some singing and dancing and we wrapped our time withe some playing, a center and read one more book!
We came back in after the earthquake drill and did some singing and dancing and we wrapped our time withe some playing, a center and read one more book!
I hope you enjoyed reading about our day viewing our pictures. I will say it through out the year a lot thank you! Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your child's education it is a true blessing to be a part of each of my little friends lives and to help their first school experience a positive and happy one! Have a blessed evening.