REMINDERS

Pre-K Color Day is tomorrow!  Please have your child wear a solid color shirt of his/her choosing.  Dress Code should be followed from the waist down.  

Please have your child bring in a photo of herself/himself involved in a celebration, holiday, etc. with candles or lights in the photo. We would like to have everyone bring one in  by this Friday.  

THANKS!!!

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 12-9-14

ASK ME ABOUT...

...the question on the Morning Message.

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...what I did in P.E.

...what letters I learned and practiced writing today.

...what letter sound we practiced today.

...what we used to decorate the letter "J".

...the friends who have shared their photos with candles.

...the story, Mix It Up.

...the ice cube experiment we are going to do tomorrow on Color Day.

...what color shirt I want to wear for Color Day.

 MORNING MESSAGE~

Ask your child to tell you an easy way to count the frogs on the ten frames!

 

 LETTER SOUND~

Today we introduced the /J/ sound and reviewed all of the letter sounds we have done so far.

 We decorated the "J" with jingle bells.

 

HANDWRITING~

Children learned and practiced making the letters "B" and "P" today in their handwriting books.

 COLORS~

To help us get ready for Color Day tomorrow, we read a story called, Mix It Up!  Next, we prepared for and discussed an experiment we will do tomorrow on Color Day.  We added food coloring to an ice cube tray filled with water.  We then put the ice cube tray into the freezer.  Tomorrow morning, we will take out the ice cubes and conduct our experiment.  Stay tuned!

 EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~

Today was a cooking day and we made matzoh ball soup!  Children helped fill a large pot with water; add seasoning to the water; mix together the matzoh; and rolled the matzoh into balls.

Since we made soup today, we read a funny story called Duck Soup.

MARVELOUS MONDAY 12-8-14

ASK ME ABOUT...

...what I did in Spanish.

...the class Birthday Book we are making.

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...what I did in Music.

...the new password.

...the story, Pete The Cat--I Love My White Shoes.

...Pre-K Color Day! 

BIRTHDAY BOOK~  

Today everyone colored in a birthday cake and then glued to to a the page that included their birthday month.

FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Anna, Graham, K.J. and Clare are detectives looking for their classmates' names hidden in the classroom.

 Lianna, Margo, Anna and Amara work together building a castle in the Construction Zone.

COLORS~

To get ready for our upcoming Color Day, we read the story, Pete the Cat--I Love My White Shoes.  Next, we told the children about Pre-K Color Day which is this Wednesday, December 10th.  Please have your child wear a solid-color shirt  on Wednesday. (Please no writing or pictures on the shirt.)  We are going to make a class book with our shirt colors.

FANTASTIC FRIDAY 12-5-14

ASK ME ABOUT...

...how many letters are in the word, winter.

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...what I did in P.E.

...what I did in Spanish.

...the story, Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Birthday.

...the fire drill.

...how many days we've been in school.

...what we did to celebrate Zero the Hero Day!

CALENDAR~

There is a new activity we do during Calendar called, "missing number".  Each day, a number is removed from our kid collection of number of days we've been in school.  At the end of Calendar, the Friendly Frog has to figure out which number is missing.

ZERO THE HERO DAY!~

Today we celebrated our 70th day of school.  Luke's mom came in and read us a story about Zero the Hero and helped us count to 70.  Next, we had Zero the Hero puppets to create, including ordering the "tens" numbers from 10 to 70.  Thank you for a fun activity!

 STORYTIME~

Today we read the story Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Birthday.  Next week, we are going to make a class birthday book.

 

EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~

Today was Technology Day!  We played 2 different language games (rhyming and syllables) on the SMARTBoard.

In the activity pictured below, children had to determine which pictures rhyme with tree and three.

 In the activity pictured below, children have to determine how many syllables are in the word.  To help them figure this out, we have the children clap the word to determine the number of syllables.  For example, raspberries is 3 claps.

THRILLING THURSDAY 12-4-14

ASK ME ABOUT...

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...why my teachers used the peace rose with each other.

...what letter I learned and practiced writing.

...what the "missing number" was today at Calendar.

...what letter sound we practiced today.

...what we used to decorate the letter "I".

...what book Mrs. Arner read to us in the library.

...what book I checked out from the library.

WRITING STATION~ 

It is AMAZING how many authors we have in our classroom!!  To help keep everyone organized, we have a new system to help us know who is ready to share a book. 

 HANDWRITING~

Children learned and practiced how to write upper case "D" today!

 LETTER SOUND~

Today we learned and practiced making the short /I/ sound.  We decorated our letter "I" with instruments.  We also talked about what initials are.  Be sure to ask your child what his/her initials are.

EXTENDED DAY~

Today we did another Empathy Training lesson.  We explained to the children that empathy means helping, caring and being kind to others.  

Today's lesson involved brainstorming and discussion about what to do if 2 friends want to play different things at the same time.   

After our empathy lesson, we played "Mr. Potato Head", which is the Pre-K version of "Hangman".   To play the game, we used our previous passwords and color words.