Free time and friends

During activity of choice time, students are starting to invite each other to play with them. On the playground, children are playing in the sand together or finding a friend to go on the teeter totter. Inside, they are playing baby dolls together, pretending to cook delicious meals or even starting a game of the "Lion Sleeps Tonight."

As part of our transporation theme, the students also got to try out the remote controlled Jeep. They had fun trying to control its path which has one lever for forwards and backwards and another for left/right. It might be a good thing they need to wait another 12-13 years to get their driver's permit :)

s is for super!

We recently had s as the letter of the day. I wanted to include a few pictures and comments from our learning that day.

For snack a student brought a rainbow fruit kabob platter. It was so pretty that most children tried all the fruit! There were yummy go-gurt for everyone too.

Some children chose to make a snake for the letter "s." Oters worked on tracing a stencil and making horizontal parallel lines to "color" in the "s"tar or the "s"top sign which is a great pre-writing activity and fine motor skill. Others tried lacing a "s"tar. Some searched for the letter "s" in the sand. They also did some "rainbow writing" using at least 3 different colors to trace the shape of "s" on a laminated writing sheet.

SNL - live from San Tan Valley...

...It's silly spiders, nightengale nests and lollipop lions! As I look over our last three preschool class, I noticed our last letters have been SNL. Just a funny coincidence, although at times kids can be quite entertaining!

We have started our transporation/travel theme for September. We are learning the Spanish as well as the ASL signs for car, bus, helicopter, bicycle and more. I will be updating the you tube page with a catchy little tune this week.

Last class we listened to the famous "Little Engine That Could" story. As I read, children held my feeling plate face to show either a happy smile or a sad frown depending on how the train was feeling. Afterwards, children made their own "I think I can" train.

Children also choose which craft they wanted to do to help them remember the letter/sound /l/. Many of the children were excited with this and I let them do as many as they wanted. There was a lemon card, a licorice card, a lollipop card and a leaf card.

For snack we added lemonade and licorice and children searched for "l"s in the ABC cheezeit crackers. Fun and delicious!

We sang the lollipop song and did a direction following activity with lollipops also along with our e-story to reinforce and remember the /l/ sound.

We had our first show and tell. It went so well! Each child sat in the special share chair to talk while the rest of us listened and asked a few questions. Then we chanted "Thank you" and clapped with approval.