Preschool Room 1
The Sky and Healthy Eating in Children’s House 2-1
We enjoyed a fun filled week working on some arts and crafts projects. We made the sun from recycled materials such as paper plates and crepe paper. Then we made the birds from egg cartons, construction paper and paint. We enjoyed our last “Splash Day” of the summer and can’t wait for next summer for […]
Frogs in Ponds
Our frogs are finally in our pond joining our turtles on their logs. Frog, pond and log all include the short o sound, which we’ve explored along with the other short vowels practicing rhyming words. We’ve also worked with the letters T and F making long lists of words together. With all the rain we’ve […]
May Flowers Bring Mother’s Day
We had a great week learning about the life cycle of frogs from tadpole to frog and making Mother’s Day bookmarks.
Turtles
As part of our Science studies about Spring, we are making a pond for our wall. By the time summer rolls around, the pond will be full of local creatures that we’ve studied. We began with turtles. In circle time our students were very excited to share all their […]
China
Asia was our next continent in our study of the world. While Asia is huge, it was easy to narrow down which country to study, because our student Maggie hails from China. She brought in a wonderful informative show and share about pandas and we read our classroom’s panda book. For folk tales, we read […]
Spring Gardens
On the Spring Equinox we began our Spring garden project. We started by painting four green squares using sponges, screens, corks and brushes in variety of shades of green paint. Then we collaged flowers and bugs with abstract shapes cut from construction paper. Now we have a vibrant spring garden to enjoy in our classroom. […]
The World As We Know It
In March we combined our class’ interest in maps and their interest in space. We learned that our school is in the Milky Way Galaxy, in a solar system, on the planet Earth, on the continent of North America, in the nation of the United States of America, in the state of North Carolina, in […]
Valentines and All That Jazz
During Valentine’s week, we continued with our pursuit of phonetics. The letter H begins Happy and Heart and our writers practiced writing for their Valentine’s cards. Everyone enjoyed making valentine’s collages for their families and each other. Miss Maria must have cut out 50 hearts every single morning as compositions became more layered and complex […]
Owls
In February, we completed our Owl Curriculum. Between our classroom collection and additions from the library, we read about owls every day for two weeks. We learned how their feathers are serrated to allow them to fly. We observed this when we compared barn owl and barred owl feathers. We talked about how owls […]
Into the New Year
Our classroom completed progress assessments in December and we began our new year with a new sense of our direction for the second half of the school year. Our older four year olds and five year olds are moving from the hundreds to the thousands with our more advanced math works, practicing writing and working […]
