Our PreSchool Blog

The Early 3’s had a fun filled Valentines Day this week! We talked about how Valentines Day is a day to tell all the people you care about how much you love them. The children took turns at group time talking about who they loved! The children talked about loving their mommies, daddies, pets, and friends! During small groups we went on to decorate our valentine bags using stickers and to make special valentines for our parents.

Our Special Valentines for the parents…

The early 3’s worked on color matching featuring one of our favorite kinds of pets…CATS! They looked at the word for the color (which was written in that color) and matched it to the corresponding colored cat.

The Early 3’s worked on their sorting skills with goldfish this week. We used the goldfish to sort and practice patterning. Take advantage of teachable moments in unlikely places (like snack time! )

One of our favorite activities in the Early 3’s is “Magic Bag”. Magic Bag is a game where the children read their names and then get the reward of getting to feed the Magic Bag (who is always hungry for yummy names!) The 3’s love this game and are beginning to recognize and read each others names as well as their own!!!

The early 3’s explored their new writing center this week! They had fun using stickers and crayons to decorate valentines day cards and envelopes to give away to their favorite people!

The early 3’s were putting broken hearts back together this week! They matched the letters J, K, P, and R (our letter of the month) back together to make whole hearts! They had fun trying to figure out which pieces went together.

The early 3’s have been working hard on making circles. We drove cars through shaving cream (snow) and had a blast going in circles! It was a fun (and messy) way to practice our pre-writing!

The Early 3’s explored ice and what makes it melt! We placed 3 ice cubes in 3 different bowls of water- hot, cold, and salt water. The children made predictions about what kind of water would melt the ice quicker. Then they observed to find out. They found that in this instance, hot water melted the ice the fastest!

The early 3’s had fun making circles on white boards and erasing them with paper towels! This was a great way to practice making circles over and over again! We are currently exploring our writing tools and are going to be moving towards a correct writing grip in the coming weeks!

The early 3’s have been learning to use markers and crayons to make circles this month! To make it a little more fun, we covered the table with foil and let the children use markers to make their circles all over the foil. The children had a blast making the circles and seeing the effects of writing on the foil!