Welcome to Mrs. Douglas Full Day Preschool Class at Zion Lutheran School!

Welcome back to school!  I pray that you had a restful and blessed Christmas break!  

PLEASE NOTE: Wednesday, January 9th and Wednesday, January 16th we will be worshiping with grades 1-8 for chapel.  PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL NO LATER THAN 8:05 ON THOSE DAYS.  THANK YOU!  

We had a great first day back!  Check out that we did today! 

We started the day with our new check in routine.  Each child practiced writing his/her name.  Most of the children even practiced writing their last name too! We are really working those fine motor skills.

We explored the sandpaper letters today. We closed our eyes and used our sense of touch to guess what letter we were holding.  The children are developing early reading and writing skills!

We practiced making patterns, and we completed patterns our friends made for us!  Patterning is a foundational math skill.

We sorted the bears by color, shape, and size! Sorting by various properties is also a foundational math skill. 

During Jesus time, we learned about prayer.  We learned that Jesus always listens when we pray, and He always answers our prayers!  We sang the song, "All You Have to Do is Pray" by AriSon.  The song reminds us that if we are scared, sad, or lonely all we have to do is pray to God!

The children enjoyed the art center.  As you know by know, creativity is a higher level thinking skill.  

Andrew made a tall tower.  He compared his tower to other things in the classroom.  Comparing is also a foundational math skill.

I worked one on one with the children to complete our mid-year assessments.  These assessments help me to know what your child knows, and what areas to focus on while in the classroom.  Skills assessed are not expected to be mastered; this gives a great resource of information for your child's individual strengths and areas for growth.  It is exciting to see how your children have learned!

We also started the estimation jar today! Every day, your children will have the opportunity to practice math skills as they estimate how many items are in the jar.  The children each practiced writing their names and their estimation.  At the end of the day, we practiced counting and one to one correspondence as we counted to see how many items were actually in the jar.