Our PreSchool Blog

Last week while we were completing our fall assessments, we got to do stations in class!  These allow students to work more independently and review various skills in a fun way!

To work on our fine motor skills, we transferred pumpkin seeds using tongs!

We got to do some fun art exploration by painting with spiders!

We practiced our cutting skills by cutting spaghetti!

A big skill we work on and learn to do is to trace!  This is a great prewriting skill and key before beginning KPrep.  We practiced our tracing skills this week by tracing both pumpkins and leaves.

To work on color matching, we practiced matching up popsicle sticks to the correct color on the boards and it also helped us with fine motor because we had to match them up just right!

We also worked on our gluing skills and our number matching skills!

We had so much fun working independently and growing as preschool students!

Color recognition is a skill that uses the cognitive function, which is what our brains use to think, reason, and remember. Through cognitive reasoning, children link visual clues, such as colors, to the word it corresponds to, which is recalled from the use of their cognitive function.

The toddlers have been learning all about the color green this month! We incorporated the color green into lots of activities this week, for them to have the continual to exposure to one color, in which they can link to the word, “green”. They went on a hunt for the color green, used green markers, crayons, chalk, and paint, to create different artwork, and used green circles and triangles to sort shapes! Our friends sure made green week fun!

Knowledge of positions is essential as children communicate in the classroom and in the real world. Young children are in a period of rapid language growth and knowledge of positional words such as above, below, inside, outside, right, and left enhances their ability to follow and give directions and to use language precisely. We practiced these language skills today using our fun tunnel! We climbed in, crawled through and came out! Simple, playful, fun activities can be wonderful learning opportunities!

They told us when they were in the tunnel and told us when they came out…Learning is so fun!

ep

We had a lot of fun exploring our class pumpkin using all 5 of our senses! Some of us weren’t so sure we liked the “squishy” feeling inside of the pumpkin 😉

We counted our pumpkin seeds and also learned about what pumpkins need to grow! Such fun in Preschool Prep.

Our toddlers have had a lot of practice with triangles so far this month. Because we know how important repetition is in order for our toddlers to learn, we incorporated triangles into most of our daily activities! Below you can see how we implement the triangle into different parts of our day.

At our art center our friends practiced sticking tissue paper triangles onto contact paper on our easel. 

In one of our small groups we practiced using a glue stick to paste triangles on a bigger triangle and made a triangle mosaic. We also used triangle sponges to paint triangles onto our triangle paper. In the other small group, we made triangles, using popsicle sticks, and practiced counting the 3 sides.

Our toddler friends practiced using a glue stick again in their art project with Ms. Kristen! They made owls using the triangle, too!

We even used snack time to practice making triangles with pretzel rods! 

Each week we focus on a new letter, and then use it in our daily activities. We learn about our letter of the week during small group time, such as what it looks like and how it sounds, and then implement the letter into our daily activities. Because repetition is a crucial part of a toddlers’ learning, we then use our letter of the week in our morning activity tables and even for art projects!