Preschool- Light and Sound

Two of our students brought gifts for everyone on Monday! What a great way to start the week. These girls are so caring to surprise us with great gifts! Everyone loved their stickers, notebooks, pencils, and play dough. 

Speaking of exciting things, we dyed rice this week. We were very careful as we stirred the food dye into the rice, and we loved watching the rice turn into bright new hues! The fun continued after the rice dried, and we received a new light box for our classroom. We did our first experiment on our new light box by mixing our colored rice to create new colors.

During developmental play, we learn that when we work together, we can have more fun and create exciting new structures.

They love using boom whackers in music! Creating higher and lower pitches is a fun challenge. 

Finally, we wrapped up the week with more collaboration. We matched upper and lower case letters by hiding snowball letters in the colored rice, and finding the match on the table. We worked in teams while thinking of different words for each letter. When we come together, we have so many new ideas.

As usual, we ended the week by reading with 2nd grade, but this time, we read in our classroom. We showed 2nd grade our new pets and our favorite books. 2nd grade also brought their favorite books from their classroom to share.

Have a great weekend, everyone! 

Learning About Winter with Preschool

Welcome back from winter break! We were eager to get back to school and continue our learning. To start, we reviewed our routines and met some new classmates. We worked hard to show our new classmates how to be principled while in the classroom.

Everyone is very careful and focused while working with scissors. We love cutting paper and creating shapes like circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles. Some students even tried to make bullet trains!

Continuing our unit of inquiry, we started with some beautiful watercolor paintings. First, we created our own individual painting, and then, we created a large painting together.

As we learn about January, we started studying snow. Since it is not snowing yet, we decided to make our own snow with Pre-K for a messy, fun, and sensory experience.

Speaking of snow, we all love snowmen so much. We learned a new snowman song that introduces subtraction. We even made our own snowmen out of clay and discussed the difference between our 2D snowmen and 3D snowmen.

To encourage our own reading, 2nd and 4th grade read to us every week. We love showing the older students our favorite books! We also enjoyed learning more about the seasons by reading The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.

Our class loves games, and so we did a pom pom competition. We split up into three teams, and then we use clothes pins to pick up pom poms and transfer them to our team basket. This helps build fine motor skills so that we will be great writers someday. Then, after we finished, we counted the pom poms together and compared quantities. The yellow team had 46 pom poms! 

We hope you all have a nice weekend.