What's Happening?!
A look inside Mrs. Langston's Pre K Classroom!
Event Information
First Parent Meeting of 2014!
Please join us for our First Parent Meeting of 2014! Mr. Arnold, Children and Family Minister at Robinson Avenue Church of Christ, will be discussing Positive Guidance with our parents and age appropriate activities you can enjoy as a family.
Snacks will be provided and children can safely play at the park while we meet!
When?
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2014, 04:00 PM
Where?
Elm Springs Park Lake Number 4, Sullivan, IL, United States
Unit 2: All About Me
We began Unit 2: All About Me and began introducing students to their 5 Senses:
- See
- Hear
- Smell
- Taste
- Touch
5 Senses Song
We sang the 5 Senses Song to the tune of "Where is Thumpkin?" and had students point to each sense as we sang so they could learn/remember what each sense helps us do!
Texture Collages
We introduced and allowed the children to explore different textures as they created their own texture collage. Children were introduced to:
Felt
Pipe Cleaners
Sandpaper
Foil
Yarn
Spangles
Cotton squares and more!
Description Words
We asked the students to tell us how each texture felt to them. The students told us the objects felt:
Soft
Smooth
Rough
Hard
Bumpy
Wiggly
Pointy
Spiky and more!
Kool-Aid Paint
We had the children paint with different flavors of Kool-Aid and see if they could describe the scents: Strawberry, Cherry, Apple, and Blue Raspberry.
Do you hear what I hear?!
We introduced musical instruments into our Science Center! Students got to explore instruments like:
Maracas
Sandblocks
Mallets
Tone block
Sensory Bottles
Our students loved the Sensory Bottles in our Science Center! Our Sensory Bottles contain:
Rice with alphabet letters
Glitter
Buttons in hair gel
Pom Poms in water
Oil and Water with Food Coloring and more!
Next Week: Our Bodies
This is a song we currently do with our students during "Brain Breaks"! Do this as a connecting activity with them at home!
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" -- The Wiggles
Contact Mrs. Langston
If you have any questions, comments or concerns please contact me! I will return emails or phone calls during my planning period (12:30-1:45) or after school hours.
Email: slangston2@sdale.org
Website: http://shaw.sdale.org/
Phone: 479-750-8898
Common Core Standards for the week!
Did you know Pre Kindergarten has their own set of Frameworks? You can check them out here so you can see what your child is currently working towards!
There are many ongoing standards, but we worked directly with the following standards this week in Cognitive/Intellectual Learning:
- 3.20 Uses senses to learn about the characteristics of the environment and to collect data (scientific process:observing)
- 3.21 Uses words to describe the characteristics of objects (scientific process: communicating)