We had an action packed Thursday in preschool!
The movie theater had a bit more business this morning...must have been showing a good movie!
Jack, Emma, and Reese decided we needed a road that lead to a drive-in movie theater! It ended up snaking all around the classroom!
Kinley improved her small motor control as she traced inside stencils.
And...we worked on shape recognition and improved hand-eye coordination using magnatiles!
To finish up morning meeting we worked on quantifying, identifying numbers, and understanding positional words. One friend would roll the dice and tell the class how many dots they rolled. He/she would then find that number on the paper. I would read the word and then...
Can you figure out what number each friend rolled today?
Mr. Debrick led our chapel service for us today! He was wondering if any of us play or watch sports...baseball, soccer, hockey. Well sometimes when we do this we cheer our team on, and it's great to cheer for games. So, let's all cheer for Jesus. We could do this by standing up and shouting. We could bring an offering. We could help a friend. We could simply show God's love to others!
We enjoyed a perfect morning outside for large motor time!
Surprise...we had a guest reader on a Thursday! Mrs. Helmkamp read us two books by the same author (he was the illustrator too). These two books were all about hats...see if your preschooler can tell you a bit about them!
Last week we read "Iggy Peck, Architect" and took a look at many different materials that we could use to create a building! Today we saw many pictures of different movie theaters...old, new, even a drive-in. We thought about and explored our resources, using them in different ways to see how we could build a movie theater. Each friend has been given a partner (or group of 3). Each "team" picked out a movie theater that they are going to build together, with the resources we explored today. We LOVED tinkering with our materials, thinking about how we will use them to build our movie theater next week.
Time for small groups (centers)!
During Phase 1 of our movie project, we often wonder "how" or "why" about many things movie related. So, each friend had a chance to tell me what he/she wonders about movies. I took dictation to compile a list of questions, everything we want to know about movies!
With Mrs. Dose we had to match the pieces of popcorn on the popcorn bag to the correct number on a large piece of popcorn. Recognizing/identifying numbers and connecting them to their quantities are early math skills. Success for some was getting a little help from a friend. Success for others was working with 1 - 5. While some were able to work with 1 - 15!
We improved our writing and drawing skills as we wrote/drew about a favorite visit to the movies or a favorite movie!
We practiced language and social skills as we worked/played at "Mudd's Movies"!
After all our hard work we ventured outside to the preschool playground!
Kinley was excited to return her matman today...Princess Ariel!
(You can take a picture of your mat man too...then email to me. I will share it with the class and print a copy to include with your child's mat man drawing from home!)
Max perfected his work as photographer with a few good pictures for the day...
That's a wrap!
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