Wednesday, February 24, 2021

We had a wonderful Wednesday in preschool!

Our music teachers were ready for their first class...

Abram enjoyed making snowflakes from coffee filters!  Look at that strengthening of the finger, wrist, and hand muscles needed for writing!

Danny took a few minutes to cut out a "heart name puzzle".  He was given a heart with his name and 4 lines drawn on it.  He cut his/her heart on the lines, making 5 "puzzle" pieces. 

And...time for marching band practice!

We are quickly getting the hang of checking in with the estimation jar!

With our snow days last week, we had a couple of signs for Mudd's Music that didn't get painted. So, we worked on one of them this morning...

Magnatile race tracks are a new idea in our classroom!

Mrs. Mudd had 7 items.  We took a minute to talk about each one and "lock" them in our brains! Then while hidden under a towel, Mrs. Mudd took away 2 items! Our friends' job was to recall what was missing!  Today was trickier than usual, some of our items were the same, so we also had to remember the color! But, we did AWESOME anyway, didn't miss even once.  Recognizing and recalling is an early cognitive skill.

And...after a friendly reminder from a kiddo yesterday...we brought back the question of the day!

Today we introduced the letter "R" and number "7"!  

We remembered start your letter "at the top" then big line down, little curve, little line diagonal to write an "R" and little line across, big line diagonal to write a "7"! Then we came up with words that start with "R" and found "7's" around the room!

Anytime one of our friends thinks of a word that starts with "R" we can add it to our big letter.  Or, if at home, your child sees a small picture or item that starts with an "R", bring it in and he/she can tape it to our big letter!

Then we practiced writing "R" and "7" with crayons (nice and short to reinforce proper grip)!

Pure joy as we played outside on the preschool playground this morning!

Time for small groups (centers)!

Uh oh! Our guitars were all messed up. We planned and worked as a group to put them in order from  1 - 20. Then...we found out how many guitars tall are you?

We improved our writing skills as we wrote in our journals.  We could choose from instrument names from our word wall.

Earlier this week each friend was given a heart with his/her name and 4 lines drawn on it.  Each friend cut his/her heart on the lines, making 5 "puzzle" pieces.  Today, with Mrs. Dose, each friend put his/her heart puzzle back together, gluing it on a piece of paper.  This activity not only worked our motor development and spatial awareness, it also showed persistence, and the ability to listen to and understand directions.

We improved our early literacy skills as we "read" to self.

More time to improve large motor skills, this time on the parking lot playground!

Hannah did an awesome job as our photographer today...

During Jesus time today we remembered the story of the Good Samaritan.  We can all be good neighbors, which means being kind and doing nice things for ALL people!

Have a great night!