Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes!

This week we read words . . .

(blending sounds is a hard concept - that's our first goal)

And we wrote words . . .

We 'stretched' out the sounds we heard and wrote them one by one, both in a large group

And individually

We even read sentences!

We added the sight words 'I' and 'see' to our list, as well as the short sound for 'i'.

We love to play the Super Star Student game to review concepts we've been working on.

The kids are the super STAR students, and I'm the HAPPY teacher - (that explains the scoring). Those kids always seem to beat me in this game though ; )

We reviewed our time unit with a fun game.

As we moved around the game board, the students had to match the time on the analogue clock with the time on the digital clock they landed on.

Our money unit continued as we talked about the value and characteristics of a nickel.

During center time we had a bank to exchange pennies and nickels, and a store to use our money in.

For our science experiment this week we observed the effects water and lemon juice can have on a penny.

We found out that the penny in the water remained unchanged, while the penny in the lemon juice became shiny as new.

For Therrific Thursday,

we worked on our fine motor skills and crafted some bead bracelets and necklaces.

Tah-Dah!!

That makes Cents!

Last week we began our unit on money!

We had fun exploring the details on a penny, and learning its value.

We practiced counting and recording different amounts of money together (that says 4 cents).

We completed a fun project where we had to count up our money and choose what item to "purchase".

We learned the sound for the letter 't' and highlighted all the 't's we could find in our book of the week.

We also underlined our sight word 'the'. We are practicing our blending skills with the sounds, m, a, f, s, n, and t. The children are doing a great job reading their first words!

We never tire of singing and dancing together!

Every time we learn the sound of a new letter, we also learn a song highlighting that letter sound. This week's song for 't' was especially fun to dance to!

For Therrific Thursday, we conducted another science experiment.

We made our own GREEN volcano!

What time is it?

Time has flown in preschool these last two weeks! Here's a run down of what we were up to the week of January 10th:

We continued learning how to read a clock - reviewing analogue and introducing digital.

Each child took turns matching times on the analogue and digital clocks.

The kids love singing songs during our transitions.

"Bubblegum" is definitely a favorite! Ask your child to sing it for you. With each verse it gets faster, and faster!

I'm now introducing sight words, along with letter sounds. Our first sight word is "the".

The children identified each "the" in their books this week, by underlining the sight word. They also highlighted every "n" sound (the letter we introduced this week).

Then we read each other our books!

Welcome Back!

A new song, for a new year!

Sing this to the tune of "Old MacDonald"

This week we started learning about time.

We are practicing reading an analogue clock to the hour.

We played a fun game to test our skills

- each child turned the hands to an hour of his choice, then we had to tell the time.

In science, we made our own volcano.

The kids had a fun time measuring and mixing ingredients to come up with the volcano. It will be fun to continue our science experiments through the rest of the year.

We talked about the sounds for 'm' 'a' and 's' and introduced the 'f' sound. Soon we will begin blending sounds and learning sight words. It's so exciting to see little readers develop!

Even though it was a very short preschool week - we still managed to have so much fun! Hooray for preschool pals!

Holiday Fun!

The weeks before Christmas Break were sure full of fun!

We continued our unit on Family and Traditions.

Our Balanced Literacy Book was called "My Family"

We also worked on number words.

We learned about some Christmas Traditions, and where they began.

We wrote Christmas Cards . . .

And made Christmas Ornaments

We made a plan for our gingerbread house design . . .

And then got to work!

Our last Christmas tradition, was making our own mix of "Reindeer Food"

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas!