Thursdays are pretty awesome in preschool!
Look at all these friends working together to build the bat cave! Not only are they working on hand-eye coordination, they are developing social skills that will be used for a lifetime!
Amelija was super excited to find the sparkles (sequins) to create!
Thomas was hard at work deciding what he wanted to create with candy construction!
While free choice was in full swing, I had some friends come over for a December interview! I took dictation as I asked many questions about his/her thoughts and ideas about Christmas!
We finished morning meeting with our friend the gingerbread man. One friend at a time came to the front as I read a page of our gingerbread book! Each page gave our gingerbread man a positional word or direction on where he was supposed to run! Each friend's job was to place the gingerbread man in the correct place in relation to the gingerbread house. Understanding spatial relationships and positional words are early math skills.
Mrs. Hoehner, with a little help from a few of her students, led chapel for us today! It's almost Christmas time and Mrs. Hoehner has been seeing a lot of angels! Angels are different than us. They live in heaven and are many times invisible. But, we are also alike! We follow and worship God. However most important, God made angels to be messengers. We too can be messengers and tell everyone about Jesus and His love for us!
Happy 5th Birthday Ben (a little early)! Thank you for sharing your special day with us.
Another day closer to Christmas day, so we watched a different Veggie Tales Christmas movie, "The Star of Christmas"! It taught us all about the true "star of Christmas"...baby Jesus, and the true story of God's love!
After chapel, snack, and a movie we needed to get our bodies moving! So, we bundled up and headed on out to the "big kid" playground for large motor time.
Time for small groups (centers)!
We found a lot of candy canes! Some tiny, some big, and some in between! Each friends job was to sequence his/her candy canes in order from smallest to biggest, or biggest to smallest! The ability to compare and measure is an early math skill.
With me, we improved our rhyming skills! Each card had a snowflake on it, each snowflake had a picture on it! Each friend had to find the match to his/her picture. But, the pictures weren't the same! The match was a picture that rhymed with his/her picture! Rhyming is an early math skill. Success for some was having me help find the rhyme. Success for others was having a friend help find the match. While, success for some was finding the rhyming match on his/her own!
Since we watched a Veggie Tales movie, it was perfect to have a Veggie Tales Christmas dance party! Check out these large motor skill moves!
With Mrs. Dose we "rolled a Christmas tree"! Each friend was given a picture of a tree with the numbers 1 - 6. Each number had the picture of a different colored ornament or a star next to it. Each friend took a turn rolling the dice, stated or counted the number of dots. He/she found that number on his/her paper, then added that color ornament/star to his/her Christmas tree! Identifying/recognizing numbers and connecting them to their quantity is an early math skill!
