This week, for our first week of preschool, our theme was Shapes and Colors. We have started to get all settled into the new school year and are so excited to get to know all of our preschoolers this year! A Fun Fact about starting school is that children in Russia always start school on Knowledge Day (September 1st), even if it is the weekend! Learning and DiscoveryEach morning, we have a group activity that we all do together. For our group activity on Tuesday we learned all about the rules in our classroom and all about our preschool. Everyone participated in creating and talking about our rules! On Wednesday we went outside and played Red Rover using shapes and colors. It was a lot of fun to skip, jump, and run along with our friends when our shape or color was called. Thursday we read a book called The Dot, which is about a girl whose artwork was all made of dots. We practiced making dots and circles using paint, and then observed what happened when we mixed different colors. Free Time During free time we are able to play outside, paint, spend time at the creation table, play with blocks and animals at the carpet or dress up in the dramatic play center, or do the different table activities. There are art, science, language, and gross motor activities planned for each day that we can choose to do during our free time. This week we had a lot of fun table activities! On Tuesday at the language table we were able to glue different pieces together to make a crayon, and then stamp the letters to spell the color of our crayon. At the science table we practiced our colors by putting our pom-poms in the tube that matched its color. At the art table we were able to use a variety of art supplies to create little shape friends! Wednesday we had a super exciting gross motor activity which was an obstacle course! We loved jumping and balancing through each part. At the art table we used cookie cutters and paint to make a painting full of variety of shapes. At the science table we used a salad tosser and put different colored drops of paint inside, and then we were able to spin it and see the design the pain made on our paper. We loved this activity! Thursday at the art table we got to mix watercolor paints to create our own unique colors, and then we were able to paint a picture with those colors. At the language table we practiced our shapes by picking a shape of our choice, gluing it in the matching spot, and then practiced writing that shape's name underneath by tracing the letters. For our science activity we were given a paper with different colored dots on it, and then we rolled a dice that told us how to fold our strip of paper. We would make big or little bends in our paper and then have to glue down the color strip we chose to connect those two colored dots on our paper. It was a great way to spend our free time! Outside PlayWe are loving our new preschool space because we get to play outside every day! Candid MomentsMeet the TeachersEach week we will be posting a teacher spotlight so that you can get to know the high school students that are teaching your children! Our spotlights this week are for Teacher Bethany and Teacher Ashley! This year, Bethany and Ashley will be updating this blog weekly
Hands-On ActivitySince it is the first week of preschool, a great activity to do is filling out an All About Me chart. You can do one of these at the beginning, and the end of the year to see how your preschooler has grown and developed. You can use the template included below, pick from one of the many found online, or make your own outline! Print it out, and have your preschooler help you fill it out. Have them write their name on their paper so they can see how their writing has improved over the years, see how much they have grown, and how their taste in color and food has changed. It will be fun for them too look back on this when they are older!
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