Our PreSchool Blog

Summer has yet to make it’s official arrival, however, the weather has fooled us!  To kick off the season to come, we made Summer Fruit Pizza.  This delicious, kid friendly recipe was a blast to make, and even more fun to eat!

Summer Fruit Pizza:

Pillsburry pizza dough

Cream Cheese

Blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, bananas, and mandarin oranges

Directions:

1. Bake pizza crust according to package directions

2. Cut up fruit while pizza dough is cooking

3. Spread cooked dough with cream cheese, and then top with cut up fruit

We put our lessons into practice today and REUSED our milk cartons to create a NEW bird feeder!  I would love some pictures to add to the blog of those great creations hanging in your tree!

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!

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.

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.

Today, the boys and girls practiced counting, tracing and writing the number 18.  With all of the loops and turns involved, it proved to be a tricky one!  When making the 8, it help the children to identify the letter “s” that is made when half of the 8 is written.  After realizing this, the boys and girls became masters of 18 in no time!

We used our sight words to build safari sentences and then wrote the name of the unknown animal.  Building sentences helps us better grasp the concept of one to one correspondence when reading as well as the difference between letters and words.  It also helps us begin to recognize that there are spaces between words in written language.  We will be exploring this during reading groups this month as well.