Thursday, January 25, 2024

 We had the BEST Thursday at preschool!

It was a little "party in the USA"!!!

With our "ice" day on Monday, we didn't get to finish our valentine bags early in the week. So, that was our check-in for today! Find your bag and decorate away...

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

It was time to see what we remember about positional words!  I had 5 cards, each with a different positional word.  Friends got to "pick a card, any card".  I would read the card aloud and he/she would place his/her body in relation to Everley, our birthday girl!

Edie returned the favorite book bag today! She shared with us "Sweet Dreams, Curious George". We loved hearing from Edie about her favorite part of the book, and seeing her drawings.  We then enjoyed listening as Mrs. Mudd read it to the class.

This activity is one way to encourage the love of reading.  Also, this activity allows the children (and teacher) to be introduced to new books!  Furthermore, it helps to continue to build home and school connections!

Surprise...we enjoyed a "Winter Wonderland" ran by Zion's Student Council...

Today we introduced the letter "D" and number "4"!  

We remembered start your letter "at the top" then big line down, big curve to write a "D" and little line down, little line across, and big line down to write a "4"! Then we came up with words that start with "D" and found "4's" around the room!

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

Time for small groups (centers)!

With Mrs. Mudd we worked on part 1 of a creation!  We each drew our self portrait.  Each friend then finished the following 2 statements...

My eyes are ________

My hair is _________

This activity helped improve symbolic development, early writing/drawing, small motor control, and knowledge of self!

Part 2, cutting out snowflakes to add to his/her creation (improving early scissor skills) will happen later this week and next week!

We improved our early scissor skills cutting out paper hearts.  Each paper was folded in half.  Each friend had to cut on the line that Mrs. Mudd had previously drawn. Then...unfold the paper, and just like that we made hearts!  After cutting out his/her heart, he/she could decorate with markers!

With Mrs. Lorenz, we improved recognizing/identifying upper and lowercase letters (and their sounds). Each friend was given a penguin with an uppercase letter on it. He/she had to say the letter and the sound it makes.  Then he/she found the lowercase letter match on the carpet!

We took a bit of time today to build boats (out of blocks). We decided this was quite different than making them with aluminum foil like we did yesterday and this morning!

Finally...off to the gym to burn off a bit of the full moon energy!

During Jesus time we loved hearing the story of Zacchaeus. We had so many questions...How short was he? Does God even love the devil? It was great to have these conversations...

Thanks for stopping by!