Love This!

Although this picture isn't perfect, watching the children enjoy  this story was priceless!  I read the story, The Little Old Lady That Wasn't Afraid of Anything, to the class.  I placed a copy of the book and some pictures to recreate the story out to explore.  I was so excited to watch as one child retold the story and another moved the pieces on the board all on their own!

Awesome!

A look at last week......

We read one of my favorite books, Go Away Big Green Monster.   Here is our creation, Go Away Big Orange Jack-O-Lantern!

These exploration cups were a big hit!  We painted a cup with red and yellow paint, placed another cup on top and twisted.  We were very excited to see orange!  We then turned our cup into a jack-o-lantern!  FUN!

Burrrrr........It is getting colder!  

Please dress warm, we go outside everyday! 

(Don't forget to label clothing.)

Ask Me About......

Hi everyone!  We have been very busy in the preschool!  We continue to practice hearing sounds in our environment, determining what sound we heard first, last or in the middle.  You can practice this at home too!  You can make sounds and ask which sound was first, which sound was last.  You can practice asking your child which picture is first or last or in the middle.  This is all going to help with their understanding of sounds in words, so have fun!  We have also begun to read!! This week we will be reading our next reader.  We are learning the sight word "A".  When the reader comes home, please have your child read it to you, they are all so excited!

In math we have been practicing same/different.  We have been engaging in many activities to understand this concept.  One of our activities had the children picking an object from a bag and matching it to the object that I held.  They were then asked if our objects were the same or different.  They all did really well with this part, it became a bit more tricky when I began to ask them why the objects were the same or different.  Here they really had to think and try to explain it to me.  This is something you can carry on at home.  Ask your child if something is the same or different, but be sure to extend their thinking with questions like, "Why do you think they are the same."  "Are you sure?" "Tell me something that is different about the objects.  Is there anything the same?"  Keep them thinking, you will be amazed at their answers!

Lastly, we talked about fire safety.  We read books and watched some videos and made some wonderful fire trucks.  I am working on having the fire department visit the classroom, but they have been very busy, so I will keep trying!  The children and I talked about fire drills at school and how it is important to have a fire drill at home too.  We also talked about having a meeting spot at home like we do at school.  You can ask them if they know where our class meeting spot is (we meet at #2).

I hope everyone had a great long weekend!  

   

Here is a look at our fall sensory table!  We are loving it!

Ask me how a pumpkin grows!

Last week we read Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington and learned how pumpkins grow!

First, you start with a seed,

The seed grows into a big vine.  The vine grows flowers and the flowers grow pumpkins.  We got to see the small, green pumpkins on the vine with the flowers!  (Thank you Mrs. Hyde for the vine!)

Lastly, the little green pumpkin turns into a great big, orange pumpkin!