Our PreSchool Blog

We began reading our big book, Silly Sally, this week during our shared reading time.  We will continue this book through next week.  The students made their own books during reading groups this week called, Silly Town.  We will be finishing those by the end of next week.  The focus sight word this week, continues to be “is.”  I am so proud of all the students, they are working hard at home and at school on the sight words and it is paying off big time!  They are recognizing the words more quickly every day.  Way to go everyone!

Prewriting skills are critical for students to become successful writers in the future.  Here at Tots, we include a writing center within the classroom for the students to build the skills needed for future success.  Some of the things that children will be learning while they visit the writing center are:  letter formation skills, a sense of left-to-right, associations between letters and sounds, communication skills, self-expression, creativity, fine motor skills.

After reading our reading group book, Zoo Animals, we created a new page for the book by adding our own text and illustration.  We are all readers and writers!

During small groups today, the students began to prepare for the homework that they will be doing in a few weeks.  They used letter tiles to build their name then wrote their name independently.  This will be one of the activities that will be in their homework folders that will be sent home after Parent Orientation Night.