We loved playing Candy Land! The game worked on skills such as turn-taking, self-control, counting, and color identification. We read The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt. Preschoolers worked on their understanding of stories, and knowledge of books and print. The ending of the story surprised us, when the fox ate the main character, the gingerbread man! Then, four-year-old students used small muscles to cut out gingerbread men. All students used spatial awareness skills to decorate gingerbread men with a face, and buttons. We used fine motor skills to create snowflakes for the Morris Post Office!
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We worked on identifying and writing the letter Hh! We read our My Hh Books, using our magic pointing fingers to find the Hh's as we read. In the book, there are many things that begin with Hh: "This is a heart… hat… hen… hand." Working on basic shapes and colors, we made Hh house crafts, and practiced writing an upper case H and a lower case h. Remember to always start your big upper case letters at the top! Some preschoolers added text to their work. Write an upper case H: Big line Big line Little line Write a lower case h: Dive down Swim up and over Down We enjoyed making and wearing letter Hh heart headbands, and working in the letter Hh sensory box! We found many things that begin with Hh such as heart, horse, helicopter, and hippopotamus. Hh is for Hanukkah! We read How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukkah? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, Hanukkah: A Counting Book by Emily Sper, and Hanukkah Lights by David Martin. Using fine motor skills, and counting with one-to-one correspondence, we made sparkling menorahs complete with nine candles. Hh is for Humpty Dumpty! We learned, and practiced the nursery rhyme to build language and cognitive development. Then, students worked scissor cutting fine motor skills, and cut out an oval to create Humpty Dumpty. Mem Fox, author of Reading Magic wrote, "Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight." You can practice Humpty Dumpty at home by clicking on the link below. We have been learning how to use a ten frame to count! Every morning during circle time, the counting helper leads the class using a ten frame on the smart board. We counted turkeys in November, and we counted presents in December. When we use a ten frame, we always start on the top row adding objects from left to right, then jump to the bottom row adding objects from left to right. Using a ten frame to count is so much fun! |
Mrs. Hodgkinson's Pre-K ClassRegion 6 Early Childhood Learning Center Archives
September 2019
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