For the past two weeks, we learned about how to keep our bodies healthy. We learned about food groups, exercise, and taking care of our teeth! Vegetables are an important food group. We read a funny book called Little Pea (Rosenthal). Using fine motor skills and creativity, preschoolers made their own little peas with green play dough and wiggly eyes! Students learned how to keep their teeth healthy: flossing, brushing, visiting the dentist, and eating healthy foods. We practiced brushing and flossing with a recycled egg carton, white paint, yarn, and toothbrushes! Children made tooth brush crafts, and learned some fun dental health songs with Miss Powell during music enrichment. On BrainPopJr, we watched Caring For Teeth, and Going to the Dentist (username: rsd6, password: brainpop). BrainPopJr is a nonfiction website with curriculum-based content. Using "My Plate," preschool students learned about the various food groups: fruit, vegetables, protein, grains, and dairy. Preschoolers made their own lunch box; three year-olds glued on pictures of food, and four year-olds drew pictures of food, and used early literacy skills to label the food on their plates. We continued learning about food groups in wellness enrichment with Mrs. Wright. We used our senses to identify foods from each food group on "My Plate," which was so much fun! On BrainPopJr, we viewed "Food Groups," and "Eating Right" (username: rsd6, password: brain pop). For recipes, activities, games, and ideas, visit MyPlate Kids' Place.
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This week, we enjoyed reading St. Patrick's Day books such as: Ten Lucky Leprechauns (Heling & Hembrook), Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato (DePaola), and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover (Collandro). During story time, we practiced retelling There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover with picture parts from the story. Leprechauns leave a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! We learned all the colors of the rainbow, and then painted our own on paper plates. We made rainbow pasta necklaces too. We use used fine motor skills to cut out a circle of gold, and practiced writing our name. This month, we experimented with rainbow rice at our sensory table! During music enrichment with Ms. Powell, we learned two new St. Patrick's Day songs, and danced with rainbow-colored scarves! It was so much fun! Mrs. Greenwood visited, and read us a St. Patrick's Day story! Throughout the month of March, we have been working on number identification, and counting shamrocks with one-to-one correspondence using a ten frame. We had fun working on the letter "P". To help us learn the letter and it's sound, we made prince and princess crowns. We made a penguin craft, and practiced using scissors to cut out the white part of a penguin. We read our "My Pp Book," which included a pig, peacock, penguin, pony, and puppy.
"O" is for octopus! We explored nonfiction text on the Smart Board through a website called PebbleGo. You can access PebbleGo with our username: region6, and our password: read. We learned neat facts about octopuses, like they have eight legs, called tentacles. We made an "'O' is for octopus" craft by counting and gluing eight legs, and writing an upper case and lower case "O" "O" is for the Olympics! We colored and read a mini book about the Sochi Winter Olympics. We learned that the Olympic rings represent five different areas of the world that compete in the Olympics. Working on color identification, we used recycled toilet paper tubes to create Olympic flags. We realized that the shape of each ring is a circle, like the letter "O"! Using "O"-shaped cereal, we used fine motor skills to create Fruit Loop bracelets. We celebrated Read Across America Day 2014, and Dr. Seuss's Birthday by reading many books by Dr. Seuss, and participating in hands-on learning activities! Mrs. Greenwood visited, and read The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss. Combining literacy, math, and fine motor skills, we colored an AB pattern, and cut out a hat just like in the book! We worked on rhyming by brainstorming a list of words that rhyme with "cat" and "hat". On crazy sock day, we read Fox in Socks, and The Foot Book. Then, we used fine motor skills and creativity to cut out and decorate a crazy sock! We read Green Eggs and Ham, and graphed the answer to "Would you try eating green eggs and ham?" Looking at our results, we discovered that more friends would try green eggs and ham!! We read One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and worked on counting with one-to-one correspondence by counting goldfish snacks. Counting is so much fun! Lastly, we used fine motor skills to make truffula trees from The Lorax, by stringing beads on pipe cleaners. |
Mrs. Hodgkinson's Pre-K ClassRegion 6 Early Childhood Learning Center Archives
September 2019
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