PRESCHOOL NEWS
Miss Courtney and Miss Amy's Preschool Class
This Week
Tuesday we had a fun choice time making dragon flies with wooden sticks, paper wings and paint to decorate. We were allowed to use real squeeze glue, we love that! We played a retelling game on the carpet, retelling the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Some friends enjoyed some free time in the art center and some chose small table toys to play with! We did yoga as a whole class and it was really relaxing. We learned how to "smell the flowers and blow out the candles" to take deep breaths! After snack Miss Kara came in and did a fun game with us where we had to balance on different sized balance beams and catch balls. It was really fun!
Wednesday we had a very full and exciting day! We had a busy choice time cutting out butterflies and decorating them. We also got so into playing pretend restaurant in the kitchen area. We had waitresses and waiters, cooks and customers. During whole group time on the rug, we listened to a story with Miss Becky about staying with the group. It was called "Wombat Walkabout." Afterwards, we had a fire drill and practiced being safe and responsible. We got to take an art walk today to view our masterpieces that will be displayed in the art show. We are so talented!! After snack today, we got together with Mrs Strohl's class to watch The Lorax in honor of Earth Day. We love spending cozy time with Mrs Strohl's class!
Thursday we took full advantage of the beautiful weather!!! We had a quick choice time inside and then went to Library. Next week we will get to go to the Book Fair! After library, we went outside and played a fun relay race game with Miss Amanda. We had to do cool exercises to get across the grass and then pick up a pom pom using a clothes pin! This was not very easy for some friends. We worked hard though! To reward our friends for working so hard we played on the playground afterwards. Miss Courtney and friends found a caterpillar and we kept him and built him a habitat. We went inside and read a story about ladybugs and caterpillars since we had such an interest in it! Some other friends played in the mud puddle we found...sorry parents! It was just so much fun outside! We came in and had snack, read a couple stories, and then we went outside to do centers. We had an obstacle course, puzzles and chalk. It was a great day!
Friday. We had some awesome choice time adventures. We played in shaving cream, drew at the easles, made cages for bugs out of blocks and constructed unique bugs using process ary from earlier in the week. We also had a guest reader from yhe older grades come in and read to us, thanks Sam! We went on the playground, danced and sang to Moana and read "Free Knuffle Bunny" the 3rd book in a series by Mo Willems. We also got our own caterpillars in class today. We have five that will turn into butterflies and we will be voting on names next week. The kids are so excited!