Our PreSchool Blog

Fine motor development is a HUGE aspect of the preschool atmosphere. We are working to strengthen those tiny muscles to promote proper handwriting skills and formation, to allow independence, and to create confident preschoolers. Click on the picture below to read an article with great ideas for more practice at home!

How do preschooler build friendships?  How do we help our children create healthy friendships in preschool and pre-K?  Click on the photo below to read a wonderful article about the importance of building healthy friendships in preK.

The favorite part of our day…show and share!  But how are the children benefiting from the experiences?

• Learning How to Ask Questions and Answer: many preschool children do not understand the difference between a statement and a question, and so going through the process helps teach this concept.

• Speech Development: for the speaker, show and share provides an opportunity to use descriptive language, concept thinking, story telling and so forth. Overall, it helps develop effective communication.

• Emotional Development: giving children time to share a part of their home life, their interests, with the group creates an environment of caring and fosters their emotional selves.

• Respectful Listening: show and tell can create structure for preschool children to learn how to be respectful when someone is talking and to use proper manners

• Children Take the Lead: the act of show and share, from choosing the item, to talking about it in front of peers, to showing it to everyone, provides children the chance to be in charge, and have their choices and voice honored. This is especially true for the more shy children in the group.

On Monday, in the Toddler Room, the children had a blast making cows!! Check out a few of the photos of them painting, pressing, and opening to reveal their unique cows! They also had fun playing with numbers and letters in play dough at one of our discovery centers.

On Monday, we had fun trying out a new way of practicing name recognition! During one of our whole group times, the children each had a turn to take their little person and match it to their name. I would spell their names out loud as they matched their person with their name. Our letter for this week is “P”…so the children made “P” is for “Pasta.” They are continuing to work on their prewriting skills by practicing writing horizontal and vertical lines with their fingers in shaving cream. –Definitely a fun way to practice. 🙂 They also worked on their sorting skills and letter recognition skills by sorting foam O’s and P’s on plates.

{Miss Sarah}