Our PreSchool Blog

Young children function best when working in small groups due to the fact that their social and cognitive skills are still developing.  The bulk of our day is devoted to small group activities to help children grow both socially and cognitively.   When children work with only a few other children, in a small group setting, they learn important lessons about cooperation, compromise and the give and take of conversation. Also, when working in small groups with a teacher, children are able to receive the more focused attention they need for completing complex tasks and activities.

Reading groups began in K Prep today!  Our very first sight words were introduced and we practiced reading them in our very first reader…I Jump by Bruce Larkin.  We will continue reading these books for the remainder of the week and practice recognizing our first sight words of the year.  New sight words are introduced every Monday/Tuesday.  Don’t forget, if you miss a day in K Prep, you miss a lot!

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We’ve been working hard during the month of December on reviewing numbers 1-20 with a focus on number 12.  The number twelve seems to be tricky for most of the students because it doesn’t fall into the basic “teen” rule.  “Numbers in the teens, they start with a one.”  We used the classroom clock as a reference for numbers 1-12 and watched a fun, interactive video that put our lesson to music.  Music is a great way to help children learn, young AND old.  If you’d like to watch the video with your child, click on the photo below.

The Early 3’s have been learning to identify the numbers 1-5. They practiced reading numbers written on paper plates and filling the plate with the correct amount of food. This was a great way to practice reading the numbers, counting out the food, and work on one-to-one correspondence all at the same time!

One to one correspondence is a skill that serves as foundation for many math skills. Counting and number recognition are worked on daily in the preschool room. The children practiced counting dots on a die and counting leaves individually to fill their tree.

In our Early 3’s room, we have a shelf of activities that only our Early 3’s students get to play with. They feel so proud that they are old enough to investigate these fun activities! Since our theme of the month is water, we have wave makers in the science center. The children discover the connnection between movement and the creation of waves. In the math center the students work to put pretend birthday candles in little birthday cakes. The goal of this activity is to focus on one-to-one coorespondance and developing their fine motor skills.

We reviewed number recognition and worked on one to one correspondence during math groups today.  The children did a wonderful job, a great way to start the year.