Friday, September 8, 2023

 Happy Friday from Mrs. Mudd's class!

Friends not here the last 2 days began their day with a special check-in!  Each child completed his/her "September My Name" for his/her portfolio.  Each friend could choose whether or not he/she wanted to use his/her name tag for guidance!  While each friend wrote his/her name I took special note of :

pencil grip

right or left hand

copied name or wrote from memory

How fun to improve small motor control and hand-eye coordination while forming shapes with rubber bands...

Friends were excited to begin decorating our class processional cross that we take with us to every chapel service. They noticed it was very shiny and sparkly!

To wrap up morning meeting, a special friend arrived one last time for the week...Tricky Mouse!  Tricky Mouse brought numbers with him today.  You see, Tricky Mouse, hid under a number (while we squeezed our eyes shut tight).  We then had to figure out which number he was hiding under.  If a friend chose "6" we would say together...

Tricky Mouse, tricky mouse are you in the 6 house?  

If yes...woo hoo, we found him.  If not, a friend would choose a different shape, until we found that sneaky mouse! Identifying/recognizing numbers is an early math skill.

Happy Birthday Edie! Thank you for sharing your special day with us!!!

We loved having our first Friday guest reader for this school year! A big thank you to BB's mom for reading two fun books to us today...

(There are still plenty of available dates, later in the school year, if you'd like to sign up to read to our class!)

Getting our bodies moving on the preschool playground is a very popular part of our day!

We enjoyed our Free Choice Friday...with extra outside time on the parking lot playground! We had time with just our class, which means more time to ride bikes...

 During Jesus Time today we enjoyed "God's Story - Creation". As we watched this short video, we remembered that God created the world in only 6 days,,.then finally took a rest on the seventh. And, it was good!

See you next week!