First full week complete

We did our full list of class jobs today. We will be working the next few weeks to learn what all of the class helpers do.

Class "Clean-up Manager" - picks the cleanup song and checks to make sure all centers are cleaned up

Meteorologist "weather helper" - Colors in the weather and then dresses Mat Man for the weather of the day.

 

This morning during small groups we made playdough. Everyone got to help add ingredients and stir the playdough. On the SMARTboard we had to complete the recipe by counting how much of each ingredient we needed.

The best part was playing with the playdough

We used our playdough during Jesus time to talk about how God created each of us unique. We are all special and God loves us all.

Class Photographer Delaney's pictures

This week is the first week we have had the exploration table open. It has been very popular for many of our friends. In the exploration table we are learning to socialize and work with our neighbors as we share many of the same toys in a small amount of space. We also learn about volume and capacity of containers. Since Mrs. Helmkamp also has included colored buttons in the table we can also work on sorting by different characteristics.

Using the tulle to decorate the classroom

We are also quite creative with our fashion choices

 Another hot humid morning outside

We made sun catchers for our window. We added beads to the string. Beading is a good fine motor skill that helps us improve our pencil grips.

 We practiced spelling our names and writing them. Then we got to decorate it with stickers that we colored ourselves. Watching each child write their name individually helps me know how I can help each child improve their pencil grip to better form the letters of their name.

Practicing Names and Beading

We are still working on learning our routine this week so that all students know what to expect and can function more independently in the classroom.

We have letters we can use on our light box to make our names and other words.

Sitting down and having a meal together. Another important part of preschool is learning the social skills to work and play with other children especially children we don't know. 

It was another hot morning outside but we had fun playing before having snack.

 We used our wood pieces today to sing our "Tap, tap, tap" song. As we listen to the song we have to follow the directions and use our muscle control to stop tapping when the song tells us.

We also had a guessing and feeling game with the wood pieces where we tried to figure out which one was which in the bag.

In our classroom we we practiced spelling our names and writing them. Then we got to decorate it with stickers that we colored ourselves. Watching each child write their name individually helps me know how I can help each child improve their pencil grip to better form the letters of their name.

 We put colored beads on a string to add to the suncatcher in our classroom window.

We are always excited when we get to go to the gym to play on Monday's, Wednesdays, and Fridays