As we start to get settled in to a school-like rhythm, the preschoolers may amaze you already :)
We are practicing school ready skills, like sitting "criss-cross applesauce" with our eyes looking, our ears listening, our mouths quiet and our hands to ourselves showing we are ready to learn at circle time. We are raising hands tall and confidently to show we have something to share with the class. We are taking turns, lining up straight, being a line leader, working with a partner and even pouring our own cups of ice water from a pitcher at snack time.
What else is there to learn? Well we are working on phonics, pre-reading readiness and even some students are already learning reading skills. These students are learning how "every letter makes a sound" and then sounding out short 2 letter or 3 letter phonic words in our reading lab and then practicing it at school and at home on their letter rings. Our reading lab will grow as we add more letters, sounds and words. Today many students learned by sounding out m-a-p they could read the word "map." It was very exciting!
We also explored marbles, playdough and lite bright art which are all great fine motor skill practice, but shhh don't tell the preschoolers that!
We also had math lab where students had a job to organize mats from 1 through 6 in order and then place the correct group of animal math counters on eat mat to represent the number.
Last week for Spanish circle time, we read Eric Carle's "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" book in Spanish and did a flannel board activity.
Today during final circle time we read Eric Carle's "The Mixed Up Chameleon" story. Afterwards, the each student had a turn to choose between 2 written words to put up on the pocket chart. So for example, a picture of a fox was on the pocket chart, then a student was asked to choose between the written words: fox or giraffe. I was impressed how most of the time the children chose the correct word. They sometimes explained they heard the first sound of the word or knew one word was longer than the other. A few times, they shrugged at how they knew the correct choice with a sweet smile. It was a really neat activity.
Our letter of the day today, was "m" as in monkey. Please check out the you tube link to the kvetonpreschool page to listen to the m sound. I also added a video clip of the "hola amigo song," the "red is rojo song," and the "days of the week" song.
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