Hunter explored how many small stones it would take to equal the large stone this morning! Unfortunately, we had a tricky time keeping the large stone on the balance! He is exploring properties of the natural world as well as engaging in critical thinking!
It is so fun to see how the children's handwriting has improved throughout the school year!
Working together in the blocks.
Although the children are unable to read the words on the page, they are learning valuable concepts of print (context clues based on the pictures, print orientation, story telling, and so much more!) that are foundational reading skills.
Our poor class was filled with sick dogs and cats this morning! Good thing we had many doctors to take care of everyone!
Fun in the commons!
Ms. Kirby led us in chapel this morning! We talked about how we can be thankful for Christmas because Jesus was born to save us from our sins!
During small group time, we worked on identifying upper and lower case letters as well as identifying the sound the letters make with a BINGO game. Just as every child is created with unique gifts and talents, success is also unique to the individual child. Success in this activity for some children is identifying upper case letters. Success in this activity for some children is identifying upper case letters and lower case letters. Success in this activity for some children is identifying upper case letters, lower case letters, and the letter sounds. We celebrate all success in preschool, and work to challenge the children in a developmentally appropriate way.
We used the pattern blocks to make various Christmas designs. This helps the children strengthen their spatial relationship skills. "UChicago scholars have shown that puzzle play is connected to improved spatial understanding, such as geometry. A new study is the first to connect robust spatial learning with better comprehension of other aspects of mathematics, such as arithmetic." (Harms, 2012, p. 1)
We are almost done with our advent wreaths!
During morning meeting we learned about our stocking word of the day- tree! We noticed that all of the letters in the word were lower case letters. We will continue to learn different Christmas words each day and add them to our word wall for the friends to incorporate into their vocabulary and practice writing.
During second free choice time, some friends practiced writing their friends' names independently!
We worked together to change our doctor office to a nativity. (It is still a work in progress.) We loved being creative with the new costumes :)
Allowing the children to take part in classroom design and decisions helps them to take ownership of the room.
We also had fun dancing to our favorite SMARTboard songs!
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