On Thursday, we had nice enough weather to head out into the school field to find the teddy bear that is sleeping in the woods. We have read many books in class that talk about hibernation and animals in the winter. We are learning about which animals hibernate and which animals don't. We are hoping the teddy bear comes to play when he wakes up in the spring. We will also be heading on next Wednesday on a hunt to find another teddy bear.
When the children arrive in the morning, they are responsible to get themselves ready for the day and work on the table top jobs that are set up in the classroom. I am so proud of how independent and responsible the children are becoming. We have a ton of new table top jobs in our classroom to keep the children engaged in fine motor skills, early numeracy and literacy. I am always looking for new ideas to keep a busy group of 13 kids entertained - who know it would be as easy as some Styrofoam chunks, golf tees and hammers. While children are hammering away, they are working on hand/eye coordination, fine motor skills and some fine carpentry skills. Every month, we add another activity to help the children with speech, adding to vocabulary or just teaching children new ways to play with toys. This month we are using a doctors/vet kit to learn new vocab words. I was pretty excited to see the children playing with these items during center time.
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Miss SmithI am very excited to be back at East this year. I will be teaching the PreK program in the mornings and Kindergarten in the afternoon. You can find me in Room 9. Archives
May 2015
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