Looking Ahead:
- April 29-May 3 WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD
- Monday: Sports Shirt Day-wear a sports shirt of your favorite team
- Tuesday: Favorite Color Day
- Wednesday: Spirit Day- Wear red or white or Zion wear
- Thursday: Stripes Day
- Friday: Mismatched Day
- Wednesday, May 22nd -LAST DAY OF PRESCHOOL
- Thursday, May 23rd -Preschool Popsicles and Playground event, 9-11 a.m. at Laurel Park. (We will not have Preschool that day.)
- Friday, May 24th- NO SCHOOL-SUMMER BREAK BEGINS
Check out some of the highlights from our day!
We talked about stepping in different things like Pete does in the book Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes. We traced, cut out, and colored our own shoe. Then, we colored our shoe. The children decided what they "stepped in" based on the color of their shoe. For example, one child colored his shoe pink because he stepped in cotton candy! This activity provides an opportunity for fine motor growth and creativity!
We used picture cards from the story Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes to re-tell the story to each other. "Studies on story recall have found that extended use of the technique of story retelling leads to large improvements in story comprehension, making inferences, and understanding of story structure." (http://www.factsinaction.org)
We practiced counting, one to one correspondence, and number recognition as we worked on a class Pete the Cat book. The children each drew a number of buttons on Pete the Cat. Then, the children counted the buttons they drew and wrote the number on the line. All of these skills are foundational math skills! We will bind all of our pictures together to make a class book.
We continued to explore numbers and quantities as we did a fun roll and color Pete the Cat activity. The children rolled a di and counted the number of dots. Then, the children identified the corresponding number on the paper and colored that part of the picture. Matching numbers and their quantities is a foundational math skill that will benefit the children as they learn addition, subtraction, and other valuable math skills!
The children worked together to sequence the Pete the Cat button pictures. They ordered the pictures starting with ten buttons and ending with Pete's belly button! This activity allows the children to again practice counting and one to one correspondence.
We also graphed which color shoe in the Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes book is our favorite. Graphs help young children build mathematical reasoning!
We did not walk to chapel today because of the rain, so we had a Praise and Worship time with the guitar in our classroom! We thanked Jesus for rising from the dead to save us!
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