We had a wonderful day at preschool today. No tears, all fun. :) I was so pleased to see the children starting to anticipate the schedule. I only managed to get pictures of our center time but I think it's plain to see the children were enjoying the new activities.
Our sensory buckets included a water station filled with plastic creatures you would find in the ocean.
We also had a sensory bucket to dig for shells, another to scrub shells and discover how they change color when exposed to water.
This center is part of practical living and works primarily with fine motor skills - she is scooping "ice cream" into dishes. This is an easy center you could create at home.
The sensory buckets are absolutely the most popular stations in the classroom.
This center is again, practical living and fine motor - the children try to hang the doll clothes on the line with clothes pins. It's more challenging for their little fingers that one would suspect but great practice.
We were much better at using the centers properly and then putting them away when we were done. I am so proud of them. I tried to recognize each student publicly when they put their center away.
Matching is very important at the age, we will begin working on patterning and this is the first step.
Again, patterning work - she builds "sandwiches" according to the picture chart. The other center is beach themed boxes with different manipulatives inside.
I love this one - children place pegs in the board according to color. It's simple but teaches a variety of skills - color recognition, fine motor skill, and patterning.
This is one of our math centers - these are counters, I have different counters for each unit. This one is purely for exploration but soon I will add cards with patterns that they need to re-create with the counters.
All in all, it was a lovely day. Our letter of the day was "F", the color was Orange, and the shape was a Circle. If you could review these with your children it would be wonderful. Also, I will be sending home some homework on Thursday - they will need to practice matching the letters of their name. Thanks so much! We had a fabulous day!
Kynlsee had fun. She keeps singing a song, "This is me, this is me" and said she sang it at school...? She was also able to tell me what the letter, color, and shape of the day were!
ReplyDeleteThat makes me so happy! The song she is talking about is one we started learning today - you should look it up on YouTube. It's called, "My Energy" by the Laurie Berkner Band. The kids loved it!
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