Ms. Gretchen's 3 year olds are really learning!!

 

We have been learning so much in our classroom! We recently learned all about Apples and it

was so much fun!

 

For Science, we studied and compared different kinds of apples. We cut them open to look at and count how many seeds were in each apple.....and then we planted them!

 

This gave us the chance to talk about the life cycle of an Apple Tree. We talked about how it grows and we even got to see a real Apple Tree branch full of beautiful spring blossoms and learned that the blossoms will grow and eventually turn into apples!

 

For Math, we counted and sorted with different colors of "apples" (pom poms) and matched up the number of Apples to the number in the muffin tin.

 

 

 

 

 

For Art, we turned our apples into stamps and stamped on paper. We also used the dot markers, which is a favorite for everyone.

 

 

We loved our homemade play-doh and worked hard making round "apples" and placed them on the apple trees.

 

 

 

For Handwriting, we practiced letter A and the students did wonderful!

 

 

 

 

Meet our new pet fish in our Ocean classroom. The students are thinking about a name for our new friend.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed just a little information about what we have been doing and learning about in our class. We have so much fun while learning.

Mrs. Nettie's Pre-K PM Class

Hello to all!

Hope your New Year is starting off with much Happiness. We have been enjoying the holiday spirit with some pictures from our Christmas Party. The children enjoyed hot chocolate, creating gifts for their parents, playing "pin the star on the Christmas tree", making reindeer cupcakes and much more.  

Valentine's Day was a fun filled celebration with friends. 

We are so excited to continue preparing for Kindergarten and focusing on a new letter each week. We are getting closer and closer to completing the alphabet. We also have enjoyed creating graphs which help us read information quickly. We have started connecting numbers with their number name and continue with pratice of number value. The children have enjoyed learning about the flag and that each star represents a state. Some of the children come from different states and have shared something they love about the state they come from. We also reviewed that the stripes in our flag represent the colonies and that we have 13 of them. We recently created a collage of children from all different cultures. You can view this in the front window of our school.  

 

Hope you enjoyed a little insight of what is happening in our classroom.

Love,

Mrs. Nettie and Mrs. Lisa

Ms. Marta's AM 2's Class

Happy February to you all!  

We had an awesome Valentine's Party in our classroom last week.  

Hope yours was fun, too.  

See below our Tuesday/Thursday class singing to parents!  

We have also been having a good time in our classroom with a few changes in toys and decorations.  There are more science toys, and new soft play food, and you should step in a see all of our posters showing different cultures, kids expressions, examples of sharing, etc.  The kids seem to enjoy having new things on the wall to look at and of course new toys are always a hit!

Doing assessments with each of my kids individually while preparing for Parent Teacher Conferences a few weeks ago renewed my awe for the wonderful ZooPhonics Curriculum.  They really know their stuff and it is getting them so ready for their 3's class next year.  We just finished letter Ss this week and the kids loved their Sammy Snakes and Spiders!  

Ms. Debbie's 3 year old AM classes

We had a lot of fun this week under the big top in the

Circus room!  

We loved our music time with Ms. Sherri and she brought in her auto harp.  The children took turns playing the auto harp and they loved it!  

                                                                        

On Thursday and Friday we celebrated Valentine's Day by decorating heart sugar cookies and drinking pink lemonade. We had  fun with heart projects. We also made heart hats which the children proudly wore.  

 

We are really growing and learning in the Circus Room!

Learning Adventures in Ms. Dessie's Classes

 The Jungle and Ocean Rooms are alive with learning.  We have been sailing through our alphabet a week at a time and have just finished Q.  Also, we have been starting our lowercase letters in handwriting. It is exciting because we have been focusing on our sight words for we have readers ready to go! Ask your student what are the Hard Workers (aka vowels) and the sounds that they can make because I think they could tell you:)

Recently, one very fun event we did for the letter P was to act out the story of the 3 Little Pigs.  We did several versions, each had cute little pigs and a Big, Bad Wolf (that really wasn't so bad).  The fun part was "huffing and puffing" and blowing the straw and stick houses down.  No luck on blowing down the brick house.

Another part of our class that we all look forward to is when Ms. Sherri comes in for music.  She brings the neatest instruments in for the students to play and will play her auto harp and guitar for them.  We love Ms. Sherri! Through our acting experience and music, I predict some actors and singers on a future stage! TotSpot has talent!

3 Little pigs too cute for words!

Even if this little piggy can not see, she played her part well!

"Not by the hair of my Chinny-Chin-chin!"

"Then I will huff and puff and blow your house down!"

We can't talk about the letter P without some popcorn popping!

Ms. Sherri and students singing and acting out the animal parts.