Today at Preschool!

I apologize for slacking on the blogging! I don't know what my problem is! Here is a very brief run down of the last two preschool days at my house!

DAY 1

Question of the day-- Do you like summer or winter better? What do you like to do in the summer/winter?

Then we made a graph from our question! This was a great way to talk about most, least, higher, lower, and to also have a visual of our question! I will definitely start doing this more! This actually covers a lot of general math skills as well!

Then we reviewed phonograms o, c, a, d, and learned s. We reviewed the writing of these letters as well using the visual of a clock. All of these letters start at 2 o clock and make a circle or part of a circle! It was kind of a lot of writing but they did get through the whole thing and it was an excellent review!

There was all of the other every day things like circle time, calendar, centers, play time and snacks!

DAY 2
Easter!

Ww---Today we learned about Ww! I started saying words like water, wood, and the kids got the letter right away! What smarties! Then they each had to come up with a word that started with W. They were each able to do this without any problem. Then we made a giant w on the floor with tape. We hopped (like the Easter Bunny) on the path of the w first saying down down down up up up down down down up up up (to make the shape of the w). Then we said wa wa wa (not wa wa wa like a baby but the sound of w--how do you type that one up?)

Then we did some fun Easter crafts. We made a paper bag bunny and some Easter basket cupcakes!

Preschool Lesson 10/6

This is a little late! Here is what we did--

Circle Time
Question of the day-- How many brothers and sisters do you have? The kids loved answering this one and talking about their brothers and sisters.
Songs-- Shake your Sillies Out, Days of the Week
Calendar-- We talked about how we are now in a new month NOVEMBER. November is in the fall and all the leaves change color and fall to the ground. November also has Thanksgiving! Then we colored our calendar. I had them find the box with a one in it and cross it out, then a two, three, etc until we got to the sixth. They found most of the numbers pretty easily which I was excited about.

Number Order (Math/Numbers)
We started with flashcards of 1-5 (the numbers they have learned so far). I put them out on the floor in the wrong order and asked them if it was right? They all knew right away that it wasn't right and were very good at helping me get them in the right order. We talked about how numbers have to go in the right order (as well as ABC's etc). Then we split into two groups and I gave each group a set of flash cards and they had to work together to get them back in the right order. They did well working in little groups and we played this a couple of times.

Then I got out the big flashcards of 0-10. I layed them out in order and we counted each one to make sure that they were in the right order. Then I randomly picked up 6 numbers (Kade joined us so there were six students) and gave a number to each child. The kids took turns telling us what number they had and then put it in the right spot with the remaining numbers. This was a little confusing at first especially if there were two numbers in a row missing (ie 0 1 2 _ _ 5) but they caught on very quickly. They definetly recognized 0-5 with no problems, ten was good for all of them and 7 and 8 were so so, 6 and 9 got mixed up a few times. I was very impressed though because most of the time they would get the number right and they almost always knew where to put it.

Then we did a dot to dot. I first did a dot to dot on the white board so they could see how to do it. How you have to draw a line IN ORDER from one number to the next to make a big picture. Then I showed them what would happen to the picture if you went 3, 7, 4, 9, 5, 1, etc. They thought that was pretty funny! Then they got to do their own fall dot to dot. Israel and Finn got through the whole thing with out help. Alyssa, Jade, and London got to 7 or 8 and then they needed a little help. Great Job Kiddos.

Play Time/Snack Time---one of their faves although we had to do it inside since the grass is growing!

Story Time
We read 3 chapters of Mummies in the Morning. They were loving it. Jack and Annie met a Ghost Queen named Hutepi who was looking for a book. Jack and Annie wanted to help her but they were trying to read the hyroglyphics on the wall to find out where the book was.

Number Walk
We played number walk to wrap up the day. See post below of last Preschool at Briana's for game details. The kids really like this game and are doing an excellent job at recognizing their numbers.

Preschool (10/9)

WOW!! The kids are doing so well! I am really impressed with how well the kids are doing andactually learning and retaining--way to go mommies!

Here is the rundown for preschool last Thursday!

Circle Time 9:45-9:55am (10 min)
Question of the Day—What do you like to do with your daddy? (practice raising hands)
Calendar—This month is October. Today is Thursday.
Song—Seven Days in a Week (Thank you Nicolle for the great CD)

Numbers~5 9:55-10:20 am (25 min)
Flashcards— Count 1-10, lay out cards, children count objects and check the number on back(got these awesome flashcards at Walmart for 97 cents FYI)

Whiteboard—Practice writing the number 5 and drawing 5 objects
Tactile Numbers—color and decorate the number 5 with 5 stickers

Reading Time 10:20-10:30am (10 min)
The Knight Before Dawn (we read chapter 3)

Finn dressed up like a Knight to get the kids excited and we drew a picture on the whiteboard to explain all of the new words we learned like moat, drawbridge, hawk house

Snack Time 10:30-10:35 am (5 min)

Play Time 10:35-10:55 am (20 min)

Sorting 10:55-11:20 (25 min)
Foam Shapes—sort foam shapes by color, and then by shape (the kids did really well with this--they were a little confused about the shapes since there are blue hearts, red hearts, etc. but they caught on really quick!)
Activity—sorting and gluing fruit loops onto their own paper