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  • Preschool Prep Piggy Letter Practice!

    We cleaned off some pigs to reveal a hidden letter underneath all of that mud! They did a great job naming the letter and its sound

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Building Letters

    We are working hard with our letters!  We are learning to recognize them, name them, give their sounds, and build them.

    Before we start learning to write letters it is important for children to really know what a letter looks like, and what kinds of lines it contains.  So for example, uppercase A is made of only straight lines but lowercase a is made of a curved line and a straight line.

    We work hard to learn to build them the correct way, to make the transition to writing them much easier.  Starting at the top and going down is always important!

  • Alphabet Study

    We have been so busy this month with our alphabet study!  This month we have been working on the letters M, N, and O.  In addition to letter recognition, we are working very hard on learning letter formation and the sound the letter makes.

    We practice building letters using various materials like M&Ms.
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  • Color Word Study in K Prep

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  • Why Small Group Learning?

    Young children function best when working in small groups due to the fact that their social and cognitive skills are still developing.  The bulk of our day is devoted to small group activities to help children grow both socially and cognitively.   When children work with only a few other children, in a small group setting, they learn important lessons about cooperation, compromise and the give and take of conversation. Also, when working in small groups with a teacher, children are able to receive the more focused attention they need for completing complex tasks and activities.

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  • Small group with Ms. Caroline

    In small groups with Ms. Caroline, the boys and girls are working on letter recognition! For some of the children, they match letter magnets with letters on a sheet. Others are working on matching the letters in their name. No matter what the children are working on, this is a great way to introduce letters, sounds and their names. The boys and girls have so much fun playing and learning with these games!

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  • S is for…

    We worked our fine motor muscles during our phonics study last week.  Our focus letter was the letter Ss!  After singing out letter s song during group time, we came up with words that started with the letter s as we used clips to pinch the poms and build our letter s.  There are many ways to build small motor muscles.  They are critical to becoming a great writer.  Keep working those fingers!

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  • Preschool Phonics Study: Letter Oo Constellations

    We turned our eyes to the night sky on Friday and learned about constellations.  Many of the students were already familiar with the big and little dipper…we were impressed!  We used our newly learned knowledge of constellations to create our own in the shape of our focus letter:  Oo.  Using our small motor muscles in our hands, we punched holes in black paper with a toothpick, then held it up to the light to reveal our constellations!  Be sure to check out the night sky this week to see if you can spot the big dipper!  Send us some pics of your little one star gazing…we’d love to add it to our blog post!
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  • Group Time

    During group time we introduced the letter H.

    The toddlers love singing our alphabet song and having the letter visit their head!

    We sing, “There’s a H on my head, on my head”

    “There’s a H on my head, on my head.”

    “There’s a H on my head, and /h/ is what it says.”

    “There’s a H on my head, on my head.”

    Then we repeat the song.

    During group time we also learned more about the square.

    We read “Square”

    and talked about square objects in our classroom.

  • Guided Reading Groups: I Can Move

    We finished up our reading groups today as we read, I Can Move, for the final time and then had the opportunity to work our small motor muscles as we colored the pages of our emergent readers.  The students have worked very hard this week mastering their new sight word: can.  They have done such an amazing job!  As we learned the new sight word, we reviewed its letters and sounds Cc~Aa~Nn.