Our Festive Week in Pre K!
Dear parents,
We are so thrilled to share our highlights from a very special week! This past
Tuesday, our kids celebrated a whopping one hundred days of school. Of course,
we had to celebrate, and celebrate we did! There were cookies, T-shirt painting,
tie making and much more. Besides that, we continued with our activities from
the previous week and worked on our ongoing projects. It has been an exciting
yet productive time here in Pre-K!
Large group
Our large group was a great success! We worked together on our reading skills
via our beginning and ending sounds on the board, sang songs, danced, counted
the Caterpillar, and discussed our days. This week was special because we had
the lead up to 100 days (we finally hit triple digits on our Caterpillar!), the 100
day celebration itself, and our subsequent reflections and debriefing in the
following days. We are so proud to see how our kids have been learning and
progressing and can’t wait to continue all the great times!
Music and Movement
This week, we kicked off our activities with a bang in music and movement! As
always, the kids love the chance to show us their best moves. This week, we
focused on dancing and not doing the circle elimination game we sometimes do.
We have been learning some new choreography, including a classic- the
Macarena! The kids are doing amazing with recalling movements, timing, and
rhythm.
Maths
This week in math, we continued to expand upon the concept of addition. First,
we all briefly discussed numbers and their significance in our lives. Kids were
asked to share examples from their everyday routines where they can see
examples of numbers or addition. After that, we wanted to take the theoretical
knowledge they shared and apply it in a tangible way. So we did an activity
where 2 students would come up, and receive either wood blocks or plastic
markers (depending on their comfort with higher numbers) with different
values. The kids then count their own stack of materials, and keep that number
in mind. Then, we combine either the blocks or markers from both kids and see
what the total is by counting out loud. This was a great way for them to visualize
addition, and they were very engaged with it!
Science
Our science activity this week was very fun. Last week, our kids made their own
gardens with grass, sun, the sky, and clouds. This week we wanted to take that a
step further, so we printed out various vegetables such as carrots, beans (which
they have experience planting) and lettuce, animals like butterflies and bunnies,
and soil. The kids had a chance to customize their own garden once again, and
loved it. Their compositions were very inventive, and they shared some
wonderful insights as the activity progressed! We look forward to seeing how all
their new ideas about food and gardening will inform future projects.
Art
This week in art, the kids got busy! In our first art session, which was in the
afternoon, we connected it to their work in clay work time. In the following
session, they applied their ideas tangibly. The kids brainstormed ideas of what
they might want to make, went around sharing their ideas to the class, and set
out to sketch these ideas. As usual, the ideas ranged far and wide- airplanes,
unicorns, portraits, cookies- you name it! Our kids had a lot of fun making their
ideas come to life and blew us away with their creativity and artistic
sophistication.
Our activities for next week will be:
Monday- Cooperative Game
Tuesday- Literacy (zoophonics)
Wednesday- Math
Thursday- Innovation Center
Friday- Science
Our Specials
Tuesday- Ethiopian Center
Wednesday- Gymnastic
Thursday- Library
Friday- Art
Reminder
- Please don’t forget to send your child with a hat and sunscreen as it gets
sunny after snack!
-We are still collecting recycled material for our innovation center, so if
you can spare any, we would greatly appreciate it!
-On Thursdays, please return their Library Folder.
-On Art days, please make sure to send your child with art appropriate
clothing!
Have a wonderful weekend!
