Our PreSchool Blog

There are many benefits to incorporating yoga into our children’s lives.  Yoga for young children develops body awareness, language, good listening skills, cooperation and powers of observation.  It teaches pre-kindergarten children about nature, their environment and inspires their imaginations.  They learn by playing, singing, moving and imitating.   Looking at the smiling faces below, it’s clear that FUN may be reason we love it!

More from the toddler room!!! 🙂 We had fun fingerprint painting and playing with play dough. 🙂

{Miss Sarah}

Today we did fingerprint painting with Ms. Diana. We also explored the various centers to work on developing our cognitive and physical skills and aspects. We played outside on the slide and playground to continue to work on developing our gross motor skills. During group time, we read the Eric Carle book “From Head to Toe” to kick off our theme for this month: “All About Me.”

{Miss Sarah}

The Early 3’s class did so so soooo well today! I was very excited with how well the children sat at group time and listened. We practiced our line up procedure and quiet signal responses. During small group time, one group learned about our transportation center and how to clean up. Another small group learned about the restroom and how to wash hands. The other group worked on their fine motor skills with paper ripping. I taught them how to pinch the paper and pull to make it rip. We sang our ABC’s and our “We Like to Come to School” song. There is also a new routine we are working on with the children when they enter the classroom. They will be working on name recognition throughout the school year, so one of the ways to help them learn is by finding their name and matching it to the magnetic person with their face on it each day. (See photo below)

{Miss Sarah} 🙂

Lots of fun in the toddler room today!! 🙂 Check out the photos from our day ~ both morning and afternoon sessions.

The preschoolers are doing a very impressive job at settling into the expectations of the preschool room environment. We have been discussing classroom rules and routines while learning why it is important to follow these rules. The preschoolers were able to explore the centers today and show off which rules they remembered to follow!

Always use a clip.

Always play safely.

Choose an activity and have fun!

Treat books and toys with respect.

Always tidy up. “The mess you make is the mess you clean up!”

We continued our letter sound practice today with a twist!  When given a sound, the children found both the upper and lowercase letter that makes the sound and prints it into the play dough!  Making learning fun is the quickest way to get our little ones engaged and ready to learn!

The best way a child learns at an early age is through song or rhyme.  We introduced number formation 0-9 today through number rhymes.  We will be using these rhymes all year to help your child remember the proper way to write their numbers.  In a few weeks you will be recieving a packet of number formation rhymes along with a “squishy bag” so you an practice at home.  Remember, learning can be fun!

As fall quickly approaches it is important to keep ourselves healthy and strong!  One way to do that is to keep our hands clean.  Sharing is an important part of being a good friend, but Germs are Not for Sharing.
We quickly realized with our glitter hand sanitizer that germs are easily spread through touch!  Greetings and hand holding are an important part of school and friendship, but we learned that keeping our hands clean is also an important part of being a good friend.  The glitter spread as we shook hands around our greeting circle.  We learned that germs can spread in the same way and it is important to scrub our hands clean before and after we play, before we eat and after we use the potty!

Homework folders went home last Thursday and we introduced the children to one of the many activities that they will find within their notebook.  Letter sound recognition is an crucial part of early reading!