Preschool students learned about a winter holiday called Kwanzaa! We learned about the Kwanzaa holiday, symbols, traditions, and Kwanzaa colors (red, green, and black). Umoja (unity) is one of the principals of Kwanzaa. Each preschool class made a Kwanzaa Umoja unity chain. Preschoolers added a red, green, and black link to the unity chain, dictated ways that we can get along in pre-K, and Mrs. Hodgkinson wrote down each idea. Some of the ideas were: "Share, read together, build together, use good manners, take turns, and hands are for helping." We read picture books about Kwanzaa during whole group circle time. Mrs. Bills taught us a Kwanzaa song during music enrichment (see button below)! Students learned that corn is a symbol of Kwanzaa that represents children of the community. Children worked on fine motor skills and cut out paper corn at the art creative center. We had fun and learned a lot about Kwanzaa!!
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Students learned about Hanukkah, a winter holiday. Students learned about various Hanukkah symbols including a menorah, dreidel, Star of David, and gelt. Preschoolers practiced counting with one-to-one correspondence by counting eight candles on a menorah. During whole group music and movement, students learned the "Dreidel Song," and enjoyed many Hanukkah-themed read alouds. At the art creative learning center, students made coffee filter dreidels that were displayed on our classroom windows, and a glitter Star of David, which is made of two triangles. We had so much fun learning about Hanukkah!
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Mrs. Hodgkinson's Pre-K ClassRegion 6 Early Childhood Learning Center Archives
September 2019
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