Ms. Nicole's Pre-K Class

                Welcome to The Ranch!

 

This January was the very first month for our new classes in The Ranch room.  I have 9 amazing students who are having so much fun exploring our class and learning so many new things! 

Each day is a new experience in Math, Language Arts, Science, Art and Social Studies.  

 

Our class has been getting into the daily routine of reading the calendar, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and practicing our writing and pre-reading skills.   One of their favorite activities is using the learning apps on our Promethean Smart Board.  They can practice letter sounds, rhyming sounds and complete alphabet games on our "Letter of the Week" game.  What fun!

 

 

Meet Radar-he is our school pet who has been

spending time in our class

the last two weeks.

 

 

 Our friend Austin enjoying Apples at snack time!

 

 

Wyatt, Boss and Lena-Reading with our pal "Big Bear"

 

                                        Queen Puppets we made for the

                                               "Letter of the Week-Q"


We have such a sweet and smart group of kiddos in this class!  It is such a pleasure to spend time teaching these amazing children.

-Mrs. Nicole

Ms. Suzi’s MWF AM class

Howdy Ya’ll!  Here on the Ranch, we are having a fantastic time learning!

 

We love making new friends, exploring our classroom environment, and learning through play.

 

 

Each week we have art, math, science and language arts activities that center around our letter of the week.  So far, we have talked about N, O, P and Q. 

 

 

 

 

Here are a few activities for N week - Neon Nights with neon paint, Nails, and Noodle Names.

                               

 

 

                            

P Week was all about pizzas, pets and our new Promethean Board!

                                                           

 

  

Our class pet Radar, the Guinea Pig, is a favorite!

Q is for Quesadilla!  We made quesadillas and talked about how Q and U are best friends.  The best part was eating them!

 

We love coming to preschool and find new things to discover and learn everyday! 

 

Ms. Gillian's PM 3's

 

Here we are at the start of February already, where is the time going??!!


We are still having lots of fun in the forest room while we learn :)  Since coming back from break we have covered some super fun units including Our 5 Senses, Dinosaurs and Down at the Pond.


The kiddos had a fun filled 2 weeks while doing our 5 Senses unit.  Our first week we had fun focusing on our sense of sight and taste.  During this week we made fun little telescopes which we used to go on a number hunt - the kids loved this.  They also made cute little self-portraits, each child looked in a mirror to check on eye color, color of hair... then drew their portraits :)  While working on our sense of taste we had a blast painting with marshmallows, gluing our favorite food plates as well as our tasty tidbit center which went down a treat, the kiddos loved sampling sweet, salty and sour foods - I'm sure you can guess almost every one's favorite!!!

The second week we finished our 5 senses unit focusing on our sense of smell, touch and hearing.  We made some 'scentsational' flowers.  We also had a scent guessing center and played with sweet scented play dough.  We used our sense hearing to distinguish between sounds and match sounds.  We also created quite a musical sensation with the musical instruments :) The kids also had fun with the syllables in each child's name using our rhythm sticks.  We created some texture turtles, played with gloop, as well as finger painting while talking about the texture of the paint :)

   












We are still working heavily on letter and number recognition.  As well as using out Handwriting Without Tears curriculum to help with writing each letter looking at which letters use curves and/or lines. We are also continuing to work on writing and recognizing our names.













As always we still love when Ms. Sherri comes for music time - one of our favorite times of the week :) Especially when the musical instruments come out too :)

 

Each one of these adorable little preschooler make me so proud every day :)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Ms. Wandy's PM 2 year olds!

This month has been very exciting!  We learned all about the letters M, N, O and P.  We made an owl, and octopus, and many other fun projects. 

 

The kids enjoyed making "Peewee Penguin" for letter P. They are getting really good at gluing projects together!

 

The students enjoy looking at books during class time. Since we were learning about Letter P this week, we read "If you Give a Pig and Pancake" and several other favorites.

 

 

 

We enjoyed the new fishing set that was in our sensory bin this week. We love taking

turns going fishing!

 

 

 

Look..........I caught one!

 

 

                                         We love celebrating our friends' birthdays together!
                                                        H A P P Y    B I R T H D A Y

 

 

 

We are very busy in the 2 year old room.

We are always learning whether through our circle time, music, story adventures, activity games, projects or just learning how play nice with our friends. We LOVE our friends most of all!

Parent's Night Out is so fun!

Parent's Night Out is a special night when we open the school at night. Students do not need to be currently enrolled students to participate. Parents can rest easy knowing there is a safe & secure FUN place where their kids to go spend their evening and socialize with new friends. We also feed the kids dinner! That's a bonus...right?

There is always a lot of excitement in the air on Parent's Night Out! The kids LOVE coming to school at night when it's dark outside. They have fun coming in the pj's and bringing their pillow and sleeping bag. It is fun to see the parents come all dressed up and fancy for their night out on the town!

We had a super fun Parent's Night Out last Saturday. The kids stayed busy doing lots of activities &
arts & crafts. After a fun time with new friends, they settled in for "movie night".

We LOVED popping fresh popcorn with our NEW popcorn maker!!

 

The kids had so much fun eating their popcorn and watching a movie on our NEW

Promethean smart board!

 

If you need a night out WITHOUT THE KIDS, we host Parent's Night Out one Saturday per month from 5 - 9 pm at the preschool for ages 2 - 8. There are unique activities & crafts every time.

Space is limited & you must pre-register. We would love to see YOUR child(ren) at TotSpot next month for Parent's Night Out!

Welcome Back!

 Here in the Jungle Room AM we are diving straight in to learning!  We are doing many things each week.  Each week consists of 5 different learning, hand-on activities at each center: Art, Science, Language Arts and Math.  Each center is fun, but also enhances past and new skills that these students will need next year in Kindergarten!  Each lesson approaches their learning by way of experiences.  I feel that learning is done best when actually experiencing all the senses of the activity!  For example, for I week we did a lot of hand-on, experience related learning.  Below you will see them observing and drawing Insects (crickets!!)  They were even lucky enough to be able to bring one home as a pet! (sorry parents...)

 Here we are making ice cream by adding ingredients, ice and then SHAKING!!!  They all got a chance to shake some ice cream.  Then came the good part...

 

 EATING IT!  It was actually very good!

For Jj week we squeezed and poked and smashed fruits to make our very own JUICE!

We also made Drippy Jellyfish by loading our paper with lots of watercolor on the "bell" of the jellyfish, then lifting it up to make the tentacles!   We experimented with how much watercolors we needed to make it drip...what happened when it didn't drip down...what happened when we added more watercolors to the top...how the color changed when we added a different color.  All of these questions led to more fun finding out!!!

 Thanksgiving was so much fun! We came up with so many things that we were thankful for! 

 Our Christmas Celebration was really fun too!  It was Pajama Day and we all did fun activities in our Jammies!  We couldn't ask for a better time!