Our PreSchool Blog

The month of October our color is ORANGE! Today during art we painted with oranges instead of paint brushes. The boys and girls had a lot of fun making prints with the oranges in orange paint!

Pond water was murky and cloudy and gross!

What is all that green stuff floating around? Algae!

Cat tails were fun to break open.  They are so soft and fuzzy.

We learned how lily pads are covered with a waxy coating, like wax paper, that’s why they float!

Time to make our very own Pond Habitat!  First the water, then the algae, then the cat tails!

We loved learning about the Pond.  Now we’re off to the Forest Habitat!

Fall has arrived in Cincinnati.  Time to go on a Leaf Hunt!!!

So many colors and shapes are falling from our trees!

Maple, and Oak, and Birch…oh my!!!

What a fun week of math!  We have started a new “Number of the Day” activity that we have been completing during our first whole group meeting time.  This has taught the students about different ways to make a number!

The students practiced number recognition and counting by rolling a set of dice, counting the dots on the dice and feeding their tennis ball friend a chip with that number on it!  This game is  great for our fine motor skills and is fun too!

Since it is almost October, we made spiders using our math skills!  We matched up the number of dots on its legs to the numbers on its body.

We did a fun math/literacy lesson this week.  We read the book, “Chicka, Chicka, 1, 2, 3” as a whole group.  The book is about different numbers climbing up an apple tree.  It was only fitting that the kids would be able to snack on tasty, sliced apples during the reading!  Afterwards, in small groups the students  counted certain numbers of “apples” and used tongs to place them onto their felt apple trees! Another good fine motor activity!

We became authors and illustrators today during small groups.  The students came up with a sentence and illustration that they would add to I Jump (our reading group book  for the week) if we were the authors and illustrators.  The students learned that the text must match the illustration and that the dot at the end of each sentence is called a period!

During group time we are reading We are all alike…We are all different by the Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergartners. Today we talked about how we are all alike because we all have eyes but we are also different because are eyes are different colors. The children had a chance to come up to the board and put their name next to brown eyes, green eyes or blue eyes.

Reading groups began in K Prep today!  Our very first sight words were introduced and we practiced reading them in our very first reader…I Jump by Bruce Larkin.  We will continue reading these books for the remainder of the week and practice recognizing our first sight words of the year.  New sight words are introduced every Monday/Tuesday.  Don’t forget, if you miss a day in K Prep, you miss a lot!

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We have been loving this wonderful weather in the Toddler room! The boys and girls have a lot of fun playing on the new big and little climbers!

With our study of Ponds well under way, it was time to learn about a turtle!!!

The Red-eared Slider Turtle made a trip to our classroom.  They don’t have any teeth or saliva.  Their shells are different than a Painted Turtle.

“I see it’s red ears!!!”

We drew a big circle to make our turtle’s shell.

We are so excited to take home out Red-eared Slider.  Be sure to ask your kiddos some fun facts!

The K-Prep class has been working so hard on their numbers and counting! This week we were able to count using some fun materials!

We counted beads onto pipe cleaners! This helped us practice some fine motor skills!

Because our science theme has been about ponds this month, we counted frogs onto lily pads!

We also sorted and counted yummy skittles. We even got to eat a few!