MARVELOUS MONDAY 9-10-12

 RULES~

See the classroom rules posted in the photo below.  All the children in Pre-K "A", the Pre-K "A" teachers, and the Specialist teachers signed the rules, indicating that we all agree to follow them to make our classroom/school a safe, welcome learning environment. 

 

 

 Below are the rules for the "meeting rug".   Activities which occur at the meeting rug include morning meeting, closing meeting, stories, calendar, class discussions, etc.  Be sure to ask your child what each symbol means.

 FREE CHOICE~

Today we opened our Listening Station.  During Free Choice time, children can visit this station to listen to a story on a recording.

 SOUND BOX~

The children were eager and excited to find out what we were revealing underneath this window blind..... 

 ...Presenting our "Sound of the Week"!  Every Monday, we will reveal the letter sound we are studying for the week.

During this time, we also reveal the "password" for the week...

 ...this week's password is "bat".

 A copy of the password hangs on the bulletin board outside of our classroom door.   When they arrive in the morning, children tell the teacher the password before entering the classroom.

HANDWRITING WITH TEARS~

Today the children explored with the wooden pieces we will use with our handwriting program.  There are 4 basic shapes/forms used to make each letter--big line, small line, big curve, little curve.  In Pre-K we will focus on learning the correct formation of the upper case letters and numbers.  Lower case letters will be presented in Kindergarten.

 "MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB"~

In the "Book Nook", children were shown how to put together the nursery rhyme, "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on the pocket chart.  Children can also practice reading the nursery rhyme.