Our PreSchool Blog

Today we reviewed our shapes by using them to make art! This activity helps the children to improve their hand muscles for writing skills as well their color sense. The children love to paint!

Today we  read Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert.  After reading about vegetable soup we made our own! The children helped pour in the vegetables, add the water and stir it up. I hope everyone enjoyed our yummy vegetable soup!

Today we read Jump Frog Jump by Robert Kalan.  As a group we worked on patterning with lily pads and leap frogs. We strenghtened our math skills during small groups and made our own frog patterns. Be sure to check backpacks for our fun frog craft!

Today, we continued to work on our numbers, focusing on 11-20.  As the children rolled the die, they turned the number number they rolled into a higher number by placing a one in front of it.  For example, if they rolled a six, it would become sixteen.  This was a new and exciting way to practice our numbers!

We also practiced our number recognition and one-to-one correspondence.  The boys and girls picked a number, then put the corresponding frogs onto their lily pads.

Today we read “Puddles” by Jonathan London. We talked about the rain and puddles and decided to make our own mud! The children helped pour in the ingredients and stir it all together. While strengthening their fine motor skills, they crushed up cookies using their hands which will help build strong muscles for writing skills! Our final product was a delicious snack!

A new month means a new theme: Go Green!  As we learn about recycling, the children explore the new activities in each center.  We spent time today learning about the new activities and how they are used.

The final animal we added to our African study was the Dung Beetle…what a curious and icky creature!  Click the photo below to view a video of this insect in action.

We strengthened our small motor muscles today while exploring with color mixing.  Small muscles in our hands must be strong to be successful writers!

Our focus during small groups today was one to one correspondence and number recognition of numbers zero through twenty.

Understanding the one-to-one correspondence of object to object is necessary before a child can carry out meaningful counting and higher calculations.

Children can find many opportunities in their daily life to experience one-to-one correspondence. They can place one sock inside one shoe or one shoe on one foot; they can get one napkin or snack for each member of the family or class; they can place one lid on each of several containers; they can place pieces in one-piece puzzles.

Many experts believe that rote memorization of a set of numbers is meaningless.  Once children understand the relationship of one to one correspondence, they can link one number with one object and then count with understanding.