Our PreSchool Blog

Over Thanksgiving break, our room transformed into a winter candy land! There is candy hanging from the ceiling and . We have lots of new centers for the boys and girls to explore. The children enjoyed building towers with big blocks, baking cookies in the kitchen, and pushing new trucks all over the room.

The toddlers had another fun day decorating festive cookies and painting turkeys with water colors! The boys and girls enjoyed singing songs and playing the guitar with Ms.Joanie during music and movement. We practiced “Jingle Bells” and “A turkey is a funny bird”. We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving break with family and friends… see you next week!

The Toddlers had a great day filled with turkey fun! To celebrate the upcoming holiday of Thanksgiving, the boys and girls spent their day adding noodle “feathers” to turkeys and read stories about Thanksgiving day. We had a cookie decorating party for snack! The children added fall colored icing and sprinkles and then enjoyed their creations!

Today the toddlers had so much fun singing and dancing with Ms. Joanie! The boys and girls played various instruments and practiced keeping on the beat. We even had a chance to sing “Elmo’s World” and bounce Elmo on a shiny scarf! There were lots of giggles and smiles today.. we love when Ms. Joanie pays us a visit!

One of our monthly objectives for November is matching. The boys and girls have lots of opportunities throughout the day to show off their matching skills wether it be during group time or exploring at the manipulatives center. Today the children took turns matching woodland animals during small groups. They did a great job sorting by shape, color, and animal.

This week we are working on the letter “A” in the toddler room. The boys and girls used apple stampers to make colorful art for our classroom. We practiced counting to 3 and worked on color recognition: red, green, and yellow!

We were astounded at the turnout at our art show again this year.  The children have been working so hard over the past two months on all of their masterpieces and we were so excited to see all of the families come out and celebrate their accomplishments with them!  It’s amazing what children can accomplish when given the opportunity and the right tools.  We are so very proud of each and every one of them.  It was their night to shine and we were honored to be a part of if.  A BIG thank you to Ms. Penny who helped create such wonderful art experiences for our students in the preschool and pre-k classes. Her enthusiasm and excitement for teaching children about art and the famous artists that came before us sparks the imagination of our young students in a way that makes them feel like anything is possible at any age.

Throughout the month of November, the Toddlers will be exploring the theme of nature. To go along with this theme, the centers around the room have been modified. There are lincoln logs and woodland animals in the block center, safari jeeps and buggies in the transportation center, and new puzzles and games in the manipulatives center. Today the boys and girls jumped right in and explored the new room!

Today the Toddlers had so much fun playing with the parachute. We worked on the vocabulary and concepts of over and under. The boys and girls did a great job following directions as they held on tight and lifted the parachute into the air and quickly pulled it back down. There were lots of giggles and smiles during this activity.. we will be sure to do it again soon!

We jumped right into our new theme of nature by reading “Leaf Man” by Lois Elhert during group time. The children were fascinated by all of the different colors and leaves throughout the book. The boys and girls will have a chance to build their very own leaf man on the magnetic board this week. The afternoon class was lucky enough to enjoy this book outside on this beautiful fall day!