In Ms. Jeana's room, Ms. Jeana is the teacher and Ms. Kelly, Ms. Traci, and Ms. Suzanne are the awesome paraeducators.
In Ms. Jen's room, Ms. Jen is the teacher and Ms. Shirley, Ms. Debbie, and Ms. Bella are the awesome paraeducators.
Hopefully you can put some face to the names your children might say. We are working hard to teach them our names as well as the name of the other children in the classroom.
Materials: cardboard box, balloon for each child, music, laminated letter B
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: box, balloon, blow, little, big/bigger/biggest, predicting, high/low, space, body parts
Miss Carrie had a little box. She shook it. We predicted what would be inside the box. Animals? Cookies? Cars?
It was balloons! Pink, blue, green, purple, yellow, white, and black. We told Miss Carrie that she had to blow into the balloon to make it bigger. We predicted how many times Miss Carrie would need to blow into the balloon to make it bigger.
What can we do with balloons? We can bounce them high and low! Miss Carrie turned on some music and we made our balloons fly! We caught them, bounced them, and rolled them. We asked friends and teachers to bounce them back to us.
DO THIS AT HOME: What can you do with balloons at home? Or bouncy balls? Find words using the /b/ sound (at the beginning, in the middle, or at ends of words) and describe what you are doing.
Other things that happened at preschool this week:
Out school has a fun tradition. Every year, the teacher pose with a favorite book to promote reading. We usually add props or dress up. These are the photos we snapped for this year. You'll be able to see them in the main hall across from the office.
We don't use bouncy balls. We choose body parts to bounce: hands, fingers, elbows, arms, legs, knees, toes, nose, ears, heads, shoulders, whole body. This is a great way to work on labeling body parts.
Materials: Laminated letter B, sheet, glitter, sink, soap.
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: body parts, bounce, germs, soap, water, wash, top/bottom.
This week in Large Group with Miss Carrie we are learning the /b/ sound. First we looked at the letter B and talked about the top and the bottom of the letter. We used our pointer fingers (some of us had to learn pointer finger) to draw the letter B:
Start at the top and draw down. Go back to the top and bounce around.
What words have the /b/ sound? Banana, boy, bumble bee. (This list will get longer over the next month as the children understand the concept).
Next we learned how to wash our hands.
This is the closest match to the song we sing.
In Miss Jeana's class, we sing:
Tops and bottoms. Tops and bottoms.
In between. In between
Wash your thumbs. Wash your thumbs.
Now they're clean. Now they're clean.
In Miss Jen's class, we sing:
Tops and bottoms. Tops and bottoms.
In between. In between
Rub your hands together. Rub your hands together.
Now they're clean. Now they're clean.
We practiced using our elbows instead of our hands to sneeze and cough. If you sneeze or cough into your hands, it will leave germs on your hands. If you touch things with germy hands, that will leave germs on everything you touch. That will make everyone sick. Miss Carrie, Miss Jeana, and Miss Jen DO NOT want to be sick.
We did an experiment where Miss Carrie pretended glitter was germs. She pretended to sneeze and got glitter all over her hands. When we touched her hands, we got glitter all over our hands.
When that happened , we had to wash our hands clean. We lined up at the sink and used soap and water while we sang our hand washing song. We learned that it is important to not rinse off our hands until we finish the song so the soap has time to make the germs slide off.
DO THIS AT HOME: It's great for your child to see everyone in the family washing their hands and talking about it. Repetitive singing helps language in that your child can focus on producing the words over and over. Ask your child to teach you the song. Let them be in charge for a few minutes.
Here are some other things that happened in preschool this week. Show your child and help them tell you about their day.
