12/9 Classroom Update

Important Dates/Reminders

Pajama Day: Thursday, December 15th will be a pajama day for PM classes, and Friday, December 16th will be a pajama day for AM classes! Friends are welcome to wear their pajamas and hard bottom slippers to school. If your child chooses to wear slippers, please send a pair of boots or shoes in case we go outside!

Winter Break: There are no preschool classes Monday, December 19th through Monday, January 2nd. Preschool classes will resume on Tuesday, January 3rd. 

MLK Day: There are no preschool classes on Monday, January 16th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 

MWF 3's Class:

This week, we continued to read different versions of The Gingerbread Man and engaged in many more fun gingerbread themed learning experiences. During circle time, we explored a real ginger root and talked about some of the ingredients in gingerbread. We also sorted words based on their beginning sounds and listened for rhyming words. We sequenced the steps to make a gingerbread man before trying gingerbread cookies at snack time. This week, we focused on the letter K, identified items that start with K, and learned the ASL sign for K. During centers, we created gingerbread houses for our gingerbread babies, turned our handprints into kites for our letter books, sorted and matched letters, counted and built numbers, sequenced the story of The Gingerbread Baby, and acted out the story of The Gingerbread Baby in our sensory play snow tub. We engaged in a STEM challenge to build a bridge or boat to help the gingerbread man get to safety, and we have some serious engineers in class! We also had lots of fun baking up sweet treats in our classroom cookie shop! Here are some picture highlights from our week in 3's:

PM 5's Class:

This week in 5's, our theme was winter! We discussed changes in weather, activities, and clothing in the wintertime. In order to prepare for snowy days, we've learned a song to help us learn the proper order to get ready to get dressed for the snow - (snow pants, boots, coat, hat & mittens) and have been working on getting ourselves dressed for outside independently. We also learned all about snow, including how snowflakes form. We conducted an experiment to see what would melt ice faster: sugar or salt. We all agreed that salt was much more effective! During center time, we practiced cutting by making coffee filter snowflakes, we identified the beginning sounds in words, played in play sensory "snow," turned the letter J into a jellyfish for our letter books, rolled out playdough snowmen, and constructed snowflakes with pattern blocks while discussing symmetry. We read both Snowmen at Night and Sneezy the Snowman, then we painted our own melting snowmen and wrote about why the melted. We also continued to work on retelling stories by thinking about the major characters and events in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Here are some picture highlights from our week in 5's:

Have a great weekend!