A Week of Stories, Families, and Little Authors In Pre-k!

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Dear parents,

We hope this blog finds you well! Our week in Pre-K was filled with exciting learning adventures, including Story telling and book making, exploring “All About Me” and our family stories, and our daily large group activities. The children had a wonderful time creating their own books, sharing family pictures and stories, singing family songs. Let’s take you through some of the highlights from our week…

Large group

This week, our Pre-K class had a wonderful time participating in large-group activities and discussions centered around “All About Me” and our family stories. These conversations encouraged the children to learn more about themselves and their families while providing wonderful opportunities to express their thoughts, share personal experiences, and listen to their classmates and friends.

As the children brought in and shared family pictures from home, we talked about the different ways families can look. We discussed how families can be big or small, and how every family is special in its own way. Most importantly, we learned that what makes a family special is the love, care, and support we share with one another. The children enjoyed looking at their friends’ family pictures, asking questions, and sharing little stories about the people who are important to them. We also sang several fun family songs together, making our discussions even more engaging and enjoyable!

Alongside our family discussions, we continued practicing our daily large-group routine. The children helped update the calendar, count our caterpillar, and review familiar shapes, letters, and numbers.

Literacy

This week, our Pre-K class explored the joy of storytelling by creating their own books based on stories we have been reading since the beginning of the school year. The children selected two books, and we divided them into two groups. Throughout the week, we read each book aloud to the children every day, giving them the opportunity to become familiar with the stories and their characters.

Next, each child received a blank book made of plain paper without a cover. They illustrated the stories as they imagined them, bringing their ideas to life through their drawings. As the children described their illustrations, we wrote down their words exactly as they said them. Once they finished illustrating their stories, they designed and created their own book covers.

Creating their own books was a fun and meaningful experience that encouraged the children to express their creativity, develop early writing skills, and strengthen their love of reading. We loved seeing each child’s unique ideas come to life on paper, and we are incredibly proud of their efforts! We look forward to making this a regular activity in our classroom.

Math

One of our family project was for our children to interview their parents and bring the answer, so they came up with this question during our class discussion about what they want to ask their parents or family members, after they interviewed their parents and brought back the answers, so we made athis graph based on their parents answer about their favorite fruit when they were young and now, we use one color for 'then' and another for 'now' and our children were placing those colors on their parents favorite fruit when they were a baby and now. After that we count how many of the parents like one fruit like ,'banana' on both graphs.

Art

This week in our Pre-K art class, we created family trees as we continued learning about all about me and our families.

To begin, each student painted the background of a piece of cardboard using a color of their choice. This allowed them to make their artwork personal and express their individual preferences. Once the paint had dried, the students used small sticks to create the tree trunks and branches, bringing their family trees to life with natural materials.

Next, the students carefully cut out pictures of their family members and glued them onto their trees. They then added leaves to complete their creations, turning each piece into a unique representation of their family. Throughout the activity, the children practiced important fine motor skills, including painting, cutting, arranging, and gluing. They also explored their creativity, made choices independently, and learned how different materials can be combined to create meaningful artwork.

Next Week’s Schedule:

Small group

Monday: Science, Literacy

Tuesday: Library, Math

Wednesday: Science, Literacy

Thursday: Math, Journal

Friday: Music

Our Specials

Monday: Ethiopian center

Tuesday: Library

Friday: Art

Reminders and Notes:

Every Tuesday is our library day, so we will be sending a book that your child picked from our library, which will be returned after a week on library day.

Every Friday is our art day so please send your child with art-appropriate clothing.

Thank you for your time!