Our PreSchool Blog

The Early 3’s began working with scissors last week! Boy were they excited for this one! We talked about scissor safety and the do’s and don’ts of scissors. We practiced putting one finger on top and two fingers on bottom and about how to keep our thumbs pointed to the sky! We began by cutting pieces of paper and for a little extra practice and fun we used play-doh scissors to practice cutting play-doh. We will continue to work with scissors at school as it is a tricky skill to pick up. Practice at home to help your early 3 build their fine motor muscles to help make the task easier for them!

The Early 3’s had a blast using their fine motor skills to fill a pasta strainer with pipe cleaners! This is a simple activity you can do at home to keep your child busy all while helping them strengthen and fine tune those muscles! Try it with dried spaghetti noodles!

The big math concept for the month of January is patterning. We are teaching the early 3’s how to make simple AB patterns. They should begin to be able to continue onto simple patterns. We introduced this concept using colored blocks. The children caught on quick and were continuing the red-blue-red-blue pattern in no time!

We have been talking about rectangles this month. We have been talking about how rectangles have four sides and are longer than squares. Today, we looked for rectangles in our city landscape pictures!

The early 3’s worked on matching today! They looked for each pair of mittens match! They had to look at the color and pattern on each mitten and figure out which one looked the same! Sometimes it was tricky when there was just a small difference, and other times it was a little easier to spot when their were a lot of differences.

We have been talking about igloos, icerbergs, cold weather, and the kinds of clothes you wear in the cold here in the early 3’s. Today we put on our winter gear to build an igloo out of blocks! The children used their fine motor muscles to put on their gear and their gross motor to build the igloos.

The Early 3’s are continuing to work on sorting and recognizing letters. This week we are focusing on letters S and Y. The students sorted letters onto paper plates. When it got too easy to sort out the S’s and Y’s they took it a step further and sorted the letters by color!

The Early 3’s are exploring winter weather this month. We took a closer look at our arctic friends and their habitat. We talked about what ice feels like, and whether it felt cold/hot, slippery, hard, etc. The early 3’s had an Arctic blast playing with these icebergs!

The Early 3’s have been up to a lot of holiday cheer this week! We had a great time doing holiday activities in small groups and even more fun at our holiday party!

Counting parts of a snowman…

Crafting…

Writing in Goo…

And finally…having a ball at the holiday party!

We dressed up some cold snowmen…

Shoveling snow…

Making Snowmen Treats

We even got to read stories with some of our favorite people…

The early 3’s are really working hard to recognize their numbers…today they named the number and then counted out many beads matched the number in the cup. They got in a fine motor work out when they picked up the small beads with their pincher fingers. This is an easy and fun game to make with your child and do at home!