Day 2 of Week of the Young Child was a hit!
A few reminders:
- Week of the Young Child at Zion is this week...May 2nd - 6th!
- Workout Wednesday (5/4) - Dress like your favorite sports figure. We will have a special workout at school and a librarian will visit us.
- Thankful Thursday (5/5) - Wear your favorite color to school. We will add our leaves to our “thankful tree”. Remember to return your leaves to school by Wednesday, 5/4.
- Favorite Book Friday (5/6) - Dress like your favorite storybook character and bring the book to school to share with your friends.
Change “War” is this week…May 2nd - 6th! A local family recently lost their home and all of their possessions in a house fire and needs our help. Let’s have a...Change War! Please bring in your change to add positive amounts to our class’s total and add paper money to other class’s milk jugs to subtract from their money totals. Collected monies will be given to the family in need. Thank you for your generosity!
Picnic at the Park is Tuesday, May 24! We will have a Preschool Picnic in the Park evening from 5:00 - 7:00 at Laurel Park. If you would like to bring a picnic dinner, Mrs. Stanglein has reserved the “upper” picnic pavilion. Please note that we will not be providing any food. Please also note that you will need to stay with your child(ren) for the time that they are in attendance. It will be a fun night!
And...here's our day...
On Friday we still had a ladybug land filled with pupa! Over the weekend and Monday, the final stage of metamorphosis took place and we now have adult ladybugs. When ladybugs first emerge they are very pale with light dots. It takes about 12 hours for them to darken and get their spots.
Brooke has been quite the painter this year...she has used just about every last drop of her watercolors to create!
While others enjoyed free choice time...
Each friend (not here yesterday) began his/her day with a special check-in! Each child completed his/her "May My Name" for his/her portfolio. Each friend was given the choice if he/she wanted to write first and last name or just first name. Whatever he/she chose all were successful without using his/her nametag!!! While each friend wrote his/her name I took special note of :
pencil grip
right or left hand
did he/she know the letters in own name
We noticed during morning meeting that we started a new month! Our April pie graph was filled in! We quickly decided that yellow (sunny) had the most...by A LOT, and black (cloudy) had the least! Being able to compare more, less, and the same is an early math skill!
"Hippos in a Hut" visited at the end of morning meeting today! We started with 5 hippos...
Some got a little sleepy and decided to take a nap in their hut! Our job was to figure out how many hippos were sleeping by counting how many hippos stayed out to play. How many are in the hut if 2 are left outside to play??? This is a tough concept to grasp, but we recalled what we had learned when we did this with dinosaurs, so we did a good job today. As the week goes on, we will add more hippos and continue to improve upon this early math skill!
How many are in the hut if 0 are left outside to play??
Three cheers for Taco Tuesday! Miss Pam gave us a tour of the kitchen and showed us cool things like...
How she opens the huge cans (in this case, nacho cheese) with a huge can opener!
Where she dumps all that cheese to make it (and keep it warm). This is where she also keeps school lunch food warm for us everyday!
Do you have a refrigerator this big at your house?
And...the gigantic mixer for making potatoes or cake or brownies...man can it spin fast!
Then...we visited the lunch window (just like the big kids do) to pick up a yummy snack of nachos and cheese!
Then...even more excitement! Miss Christie from the Kisker Road library came to read to us today! Someone may have mentioned to her that it was Taco Tuesday and Silly Sock day!
Wiggle those fingers...get ready to listen...
Our first book..."Dragons Love Tacos"!!!
Book #2..."Ducks Don't Wear Socks"
And...book #3..."Duck Sock Hop"
Our friends LOVE books! Check out the summer reading program...for ALL ages...at your local library!
For science time today we finished our ladybug journals. Most of our pupa have moved on to stage 4, adult ladybug. We looked at models and our little ladybugs as each friend drew a picture of stage 4 of our ladybugs. We loved getting to see what our ladybugs look like now that metamorphosis is complete!
As we celebrate the week of the young child with all of the preschool classes, our schedule is a little silly! So, we will not have our usual small groups this week. Instead we will have a larger group activity in the classroom!
Each friend observed his/her 2 bags of beans and drew his/her observations for "day 16" in his/her own "Bean Journal"! This will be our last week to observe our beans. Some still aren't doing much but growing mold, while a couple are sprouting and growing!
Time to get those bodies moving during outside time today...
Bummer...I totally forgot to take a picture of our silly socks! But, we loved getting to show our friends what we chose to wear today!
During Jesus Time we remembered that Jesus will always love us. Even though He is in heaven, He is always near! Jesus said, "I am with you always!"
