We had another great week in the Pre-K 4s with Ms. Julie and Mrs. Horton!
Our Piet Mondrian inspired paintings are on display in the hallway! Check them out if you haven't seen them yet! They are gorgeous!
On Monday at Table Time, we cut out an uppercase H that we would use during Art Center to make our Hearts on H placemat!
We had Music with Ms. Kathleen!
We started our new weekly jobs!
We heard about Chester's fun-filled Super Bowl Weekend Adventures with one of our friends!
At Center Time, we made our Hearts on H Placemats! We glued on small hearts and the new prayer for the month. These placemats have our LAST NAMES on them! We are practicing learning, recognizing (and some friends are even practicing writing!) our last names!
We enjoyed exploring new Valentine's Day themed activities during Table Time and Centers!
Writing Center Fun!
Pink/red glittery playdough with hearts!
Block Center and Pretend Play Fun!
The Share Bag was returned and some cool family/pet pictures were shared and we read a story from the Mercer Mayer book collection that was shared called "Just A Mess!"
On Tuesday, we started the morning by decorating foam hearts with our names on them with heart stickers for our classroom door!
We enjoyed some new table time activities and Centers, too!
We read The Hat by Jan Brett at Circle Time. We talked about the Letter Hh and the sound it makes. At Center Time, we made our Hundred Day Hats by gluing colorful jewels, gems and sequins to the number 100 which we will attach to sentence strips once the glue has dried for our 100th Day Celebration on Friday!
We have a new Post Office-themed Center in Pretend Play! The kids can dress up as postal workers, write letters, and send and deliver mail and packages! So much fun!
At our second Circle Time on Tuesday, we had our Big Event Hh! We each picked a h-h-heart with a number on it out of a h-h-hat which would determine the order we would go in! We then picked a h-h-horse out of a different h-h-hat, put it inside of a h-h-house, h-h-hopped the number of years old we are, and got a h-h-heart shaped chocolate to put in our cubbies for later!
No peeking!
On Wednesday, we colored Hh pictures for our Journals during Table Time. We had Spanish with Ms. Emily, and completed the Hh page in our Journals during Center Time. We are working on a special Valentine's Day surprise for our parents, too! Shhhhhh!
The Alphabet Bag was returned and MANY items were shared that start with the Letter Hh! We read the book Hide and Seek Hippo from the bag, thought of words that start with the Letter Hh and h-h-hopped up and down while repeating after Ms. Julie!
Hat, (sea)horse, hippo!
Harmonica!
Headbands, horse!
On Thursday, we practiced writing our names at Table Time!
We also ESTIMATED how many Conversation Hearts were in the plastic jar! We talked about how estimating is when you are not sure how many of something there is and you roughly calculate the number or quantity! The kids held and examined the jar to come up with their estimation. We opened the jar and counted the hearts at Circle Time. Several of our friends were VERY close in their estimations!
During Centers, we did a Conversation Heart Math Counting Activity! We sorted a baggie of Conversation Hearts by color, counted how many of each color we had, then stamped and wrote the number!
On Friday, we celebrated the 100th Day of School! At Table Time, we all helped add 100 stickers to 10 circles for our 100th Day Class Sign. All week we have been talking about how if you count to ten TEN times, it makes 100! So, we practiced that skill here...together!
At Circle Time, we each showed the class what we had brought in our 100th Day baggie!
100 Things, In The Bag!
Mini-Oreos!
Hair Ties!
Beads!
A mixture of items adding up to 100: shells, Pringles, raisins, bracelets, cars, Spiderman Mazes, and dinosaurs!
Tiny sea shells!
Dinosaurs!
Cheese Balls!
Acorns!
Rocks!
Pennies!
Acorns!
Pennies!
Stickers!
We posed for our 100th Day Picture while wearing the 100 Day Hats we had made earlier in the week!
We had special Centers for the 100th Day, too!
A STEM activity in the Blocks Center: What can you build with 100 Red Solo Cups?
In Art Center, we used paint dotters to put 10 dots in each of the 10 sections around the 100 Star in the center of the paper! Great fine motor, one-to-one correspondence, AND counting practice!
At Table Games, we used 10 skewers stuck in styrofoam and honeycomb cereal to count to 100! We used 10 pieces of cereal one each skewer! MORE fine motor and counting practice!
All week we have been practicing counting to 100 at our second Circle Time by doing a different 'exercise' for each set of 10! On Friday, we were able to count all the way to 100, completing ALL 10 sets of exercises! We completed the exercises while listening to a song is called 'Let's Get Fit: Counting to 100 by 1's' by Jack Hartman. The exercises included everything from arm and leg stretches, to windmills, shoulder shrugs, walking and jogging in place and pumping arms up and elbows back! Counting and exercising all at the same time!
We also read a silly book called, 'It's the 100th Day, Stinky Face!'
We had a special snack, too! We talked about how the number 100 is written with a one, and two zeros. Our snack was a vanilla sugar wafer cookie (the shape of a 1!), and 2 mini donuts (for the zero, zero!). YUM!
We have fun in Centers all week!
We have a new addition to our Science Center: A Live Ladybug Land! This month, we will study the life cycle of a ladybug and watch as they go through the different stages in their metamorphosis! They are in the larva stage right now. They will go through the pupa stage shortly, and then will emerge as adult ladybugs! We will feed them and set them free when they are ready! We are ALL very excited about our new class 'friends'!
We LOVE playing on the playground!
We had a wonderful week at WIPP!
~Ms. Julie
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