3/13 Classroom Update

This week, we learned about colors and the rainbow in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day next week! We learned why rainbows occur and made a rainbow in our classroom using a flashlight and prism. We also worked together to make a liquid rainbow where different colored liquids floated on top of each other to make a rainbow. We learned how red, blue, and yellow are primary colors, and we experimented with mixing them to create new colors. Here are some picture highlights from our week in preschool:

Fun playing and building with letter/number robots!

Building patterns with rainbow skittles!

Playing St. Patrick's Day Bingo!

We searched for gold coins in rainbow rice and matched the uppercase letters on the gold coins to their lowercase letters!

We read The Rainbow Fish and created our own rainbow fish!

Playing the sticks with Ms. Janet!

Building and extending rainbow patterns with skittles!

We made Yaks for our letter books!

Experimenting with mixing colors with baking soda and vinegar!

Painting leprechauns!

We practiced writing our names with rainbow crayons.

We practiced writing the upper and lowercase letter W and Y.

Experimenting with color!

St. Patrick's Day painting!

Important Dates/Reminders:

Coronavirus Closure: WECC and EGRPS will be closed until April 6th to combat the spread of coronavirus cases.

Spring Break: There will  be no preschool classes from Friday, April 3rd through Monday, April  13th for Spring Break. Classes will resume on Tuesday, April 14th.

Sensory Saturday: Join us for Sensory Saturday on April 25th from 9-11 am! Wear clothes to get messy in to enjoy fun, sensory activities and to eat a pancake breakfast. Please sign-up near the tablets in the lobby so we can anticipate how many people will be there!

*This blog features information for both the T/Th 3's class and the PM 5's class. Information pertaining only to the 3's class will be in blue, and information pertaining only to the 5's class will be in red. General information for both classes will be in black/grey.

3/6 Classroom Update

This week, we enjoyed many Dr. Seuss classics in honor of his birthday on March 2nd! His books are known for his silly rhymes so we worked on identifying rhyming words. We loved dancing and singing along to rhyming songs like "Exercise, Rhyme and Freeze" and "Make a Rhyme, Make a Move." We also learned about the letter X and how there are few words that start with the letter X. In 5's, we also celebrated our 100th day of preschool on Thursday!  Here are some picture highlights from our week in preschool:

After reading Fox in Socks, we made our own rhyming foxes!

We also wrote our own rhyming books and came up with the rhymes ourselves!

We made the letter X into a xylophone for our letter books!

We had a birthday party in our dramatic play area to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2nd!

We practiced cutting and matching rhyming words!

We conducted an experiment to see if things would sink or float in oobleck, and we got to play in this fun, slimy substance!

We made birthday hats to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday!

After reading The Cat in the Hat, we worked together to see what kind of structures we could build with 100 cups and 100 index cards. 

We loved playing birthday party and singing Happy Birthday to each other!

Important Dates/Reminders:

Spring Break: There will  be no preschool classes from Friday, April 3rd through Monday, April  13th for Spring Break. Classes will resume on Tuesday, April 14th.

*This blog features information for both the T/Th 3's class and the PM 5's class. Information pertaining only to the 3's class will be in blue, and information pertaining only to the 5's class will be in red. General information for both classes will be in black/grey.

Have a great weekend!