Preschool News!
Miss Courtney's Class!
This week...
This week we introduced letter E and the short e sound that it makes. We reviewed E on the starfall website, and in small groups with Miss Becky we talked about words that begin with E. We practiced tracing letter E and pointed out which friends had the letter E in their name!
We continued with our winter weather and snowman theme. The kiddos got to make some snowy crafts together this week! We turned ourselves into snowmen and added our own hats, bodies, arms and noses. We used our own pictures to create unique kid snowmen! They turned out so cute! We also used pom poms dipped into white paint to create a snowman on black paper. The kids did well following directions to stay within the circles as we talked about top, middle and bottom of their paper.
During a lesson with Miss Becky, the kids reviewed the story of "The Mitten." They talked about and labeled the different animals as they glued them onto their mitten. We carried this over into a whole group, gross motor lesson with Miss Kara. We had scooter boards and the kids got to take turns scooting across the room on their bellies to pick up specific animals. We worked on gross motor skills as well as following directions and waiting our turns. Once the kids got their animal they had to scoot back to the rug and add it to the big mitten. Afterwards, we all got a chance to get into the HUGE mitten. It is so large that the kids can actually crawl inside of it. We loved this so much.
Next week, we will be adding some more details to our day. We will begin washing our hands right away when we come into class. We clean our hands during the day already, but this will be a specifically focused time to work on this very important skill. The objective is of course to wash away germs, but to foster independence too.
We will also be sigining in when we come into school. We always move our names from home to school during circle time, but now we will be writing our names or making our own mark. We will challenge the kids at their individual levels!
Next week...
If you have not already sent one in, please send in an empty shoebox for our Valentines Day mailboxes. Also, if you have not already, please send in a family photo that we will use for a craft in the next two weeks! If you do not have a family photo available to send- just take one on your phone/camera ( it does not have to be fancy!!) and email it to me! Thank you!
Next week, we will also be doing letter H!