Our Morning Choice time was filled fine motor skill activities! We had scissors and hole punchers to make snowflakes. We had pop beads at the red table and the children worked together to make an amazingly long chain! At the sensory table, we had wrapping paper and scissors to practice our cutting skills. Brady and Charlie worked together - so nice!

Our SJS Book Fair is coming up soon during Catholic Schools Week! We are getting excited and decorating footprints for the gift card drawing. Good luck Preschool!

Sometimes you just have to dance!

We were listening to the Beatles during our High Tea and just had to dance when the Birthday song came on! Happy Birthday Soraiya! Happy 1/2 Birthday Nellie!

Ms. Nash's preschool is learning about the country of England this month. We listened to two stories about the country of England and the city of London. We then enjoyed a lovely high tea of crumpets, raspberry jam, homemade clotted cream, sweet cookies and tea. Our tea was served in Mrs. Gillespie's beautiful Wedgewood china teapots that came from England! We also enjoyed listening to the Beatles! Cherrio and pinkies up!

Happy Birthday Soraiya! Thank you Mrs. Farooqui for reading The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? by Mo Willems and the play doh treat!

Thank you Mr. Maher for coming in to helps us celebrate Nellie’s 1/2 birthday! We enjoyed listening to Tickle Monster by Josie Bassett.

It is Nn week. Nn is for necklace, nail, Nellie, Nayeli and nine!

The children had fun singing the "Bluebird Outside My Window" song and playing the accompanying game.

Mrs. Hoglund read a book from the Mr. Putter & Tabby series by Cynthia Rylant. The children got to choose one from the series to take home for the week! The class also got to see where they should put their decorated Book Fair feet and then listened to Storyline Online, a class favorite.

Peek at our Week January 14 – January 18, 2019

Religion Objectives:

God Made the Earth - God Made Color. The children will realize that God designed the world full of color, appreciate the many colors in the world and understand that various colors can mean different things.

Seeds – We celebrate the coming of Jesus. The children will recognize the important role of Mary as Jesus’ mother. The children will appreciate the Christmas and Epiphany stories.

Science Objectives:

Growing our very own snowflakes that are beautiful and unique as a snowflake we can capture from the sky. It won’t melt and involves fun, hands-on chemistry!

All about penguins! We will learn where they live and characteristics of these magnificent seabirds. Are you as tall and an Emperor penguin? Can you walk like a penguin? The children will try to walk like the daddy penguin with an egg (beanie baby). We will also see if we are taller than an Emperor penguin. We will also play in a penguin environment at our sensory table. How do penguins stay dry?

Observe and describe what happens during changes in the earth. Identify healthy foods. Describe characteristics of animals.

Social Studies:

The children will learn about the social life of a penguin. Are we similar to penguins in our behaviors?

Discussion in how snowflakes mimic our society. Each snowflake is unique just like the student that made it.

Literacy Objectives:

Unit 4 – Week 1 – Welcome to the Farm – What is a farm? Learn new concept words: animal, barn, farmer, food, land, and plant. Learn amazing words: turkey, wagon, pen, wool, gate, and yard. Listen to beginning sounds, uppercase/lowercase alphabet knowledge, name it/find it letters, same sound, lost letters, and tracing letters in air. Our featured story is Farm. Focus on our letter of the week Nn and identifying it in our environment.

On Friday we will celebrate National Winnie the Pooh Day to commemorate A.A. Milne's birthday.

Math Objectives:

Counting 5, ways to make 5, and making smaller sets from 5. Matching numbers 1 to 5 with the correct grouping. Stacking three dimensional shapes to make new shapes. Ordering numbers 1 – 20.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: The children will travel to England and experience a fancy tea! We will also explore England A – Z and build a castle fit for a queen!

Tuesday: IXL Math and Bob Book 1 app..

Wednesday: Afternoon Gym and Mrs. Beyer’s class. . Number 15 exploration – forming the number correctly, the letters in its name, identifying the number 15 and counting to 15. Write the Room Snowflake counting.

Thursday: Continuation of our author study with Jan Brett. This week we will compare the stories of The Three Snow Bears and The Mermaid.

Friday: STEAM – Penguins love to slide on their bellies. Can you build a slide for a penguin?

What a great way to end our week - music class with Mr. Showstead and dancing to Punchinella!

After reading The Mitten by Jan Brett yesterday, we decided to find out how many Preschoolers can fit in a mitten! Eleven preschoolers fit on our yellow mitten!

Friday STEAM lesson - can you make a clothesline to hold all your mittens? After making a mitten, we hung their mittens on a clothesline. The children had to figure out where and how to hang the line. Our first try was too low. Our second try was just the right height! We observed how the line go lower with each addition and determined it was because the clips and mittens were adding weight and were heavy! Great observations my Preschool friends!

Here is a peek into center time today!

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Sometimes you just have to dance!

Peek at our Week January 14 – January 18, 2019