Our PreSchool Blog

Ms. Penny joined the K Prep Class to teach us about about two ways Native Americans told stories long ago…pictographs and petroglyphs.  We tried our hand at creating our own pictograph!

Pictograph

Petroglyph

Our Language and Vocabulary for the month is working with the words on and off.  In this spider themed activity the children placed spiders on the spider web and took them off.

The favorite part of our day…show and share!  But how are the children benefiting from the experiences?

• Learning How to Ask Questions and Answer: many preschool children do not understand the difference between a statement and a question, and so going through the process helps teach this concept.

• Speech Development: for the speaker, show and share provides an opportunity to use descriptive language, concept thinking, story telling and so forth. Overall, it helps develop effective communication.

• Emotional Development: giving children time to share a part of their home life, their interests, with the group creates an environment of caring and fosters their emotional selves.

• Respectful Listening: show and tell can create structure for preschool children to learn how to be respectful when someone is talking and to use proper manners

• Children Take the Lead: the act of show and share, from choosing the item, to talking about it in front of peers, to showing it to everyone, provides children the chance to be in charge, and have their choices and voice honored. This is especially true for the more shy children in the group.

We’ve been reading this wonderful Eric Carle Book during our Arctic theme this month.  The children love the repetitive language and rhythmic text.  By day two they were reading right along with us!  Reading books with rhyme and predictable text helps children begin to understand story structure.  They are able to figure out what is coming next and better understand difficult vocabulary.