It was so good to see all the parents and families on Tuesday. I really think it helped prepare the kids for the next day when they were dropped off. Everyone seemed to make a successful transition with very few tears!!
On Wednesday, after morning play time, we reviewed how to be good listeners. There is a poster hanging up in our classroom that says: watching eyes, listening ears, quiet mouths, helping hands and sitting quietly. There are pictures on the poster to help the kids remember how to be a good listener in preschool and the pictures all us to all read the chart together!
In circle time,we heard the story Pete the Cat, Rocking in His School Shoes. We listened to the link on the Pete the Cat website. Here it is:
http://www.harpercollins.com/childrens/feature/petethecat
It has a really cute song that goes along with the story. The kids might enjoy listening to this again at home. It has a really catchy pattern!
Pete went to lots of places while he was at school so we went on a tour of the school when we finished reading. We visited the music room, library room, the offices upstairs, the narthex, the sanctuary, the bathrooms, the playground and we even peeked in the conference room and the coffee room! After our tour, we washed our hands and it was time for snack....yum!!
It was too rainy to go outside so we did indoor movement with a CD. We moved around to Shake, Rattle, and Roll and played the stop and go game. Then we each had a turn to pour our rice into the sensory tub.
We played a getting to know you game where we rolled a ball to each child in the circle and we had to say our name and something we liked. We also read all of our "All About Me" Robots. It was fun to hear what everyone liked to do at home and school and what their favorite food was. The kids got really excited when they heard someone else say they like to play the same game or eat the same food as they do! It was fun to learn how we're all similar in some ways and also different in some ways, but we're all friends!!
On Thursday we opened up the cabinet in the "vine room" to see what was inside! Then we had a chance to get out some of those activities and work with them. We also learned how to pick up one activity before moving onto the next. Everyone is working really hard to be a good "picker-upper"!
We heard another Pete the Cat book, this time it was called Pete the Cat, I Love My White Shoes. This story also has a read aloud with it on the same link. Pete's shoes don't stay white for very long in this story. Ask your child to see if he/she remembers what happens to Pete's shoes!!
During activity time we used the train table, the blocks, the rice table, the cars, the dollhouses, and much more! We also broke into small groups and worked with Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Chyko. We used glue and fruit loops to make the letter C or the word Cat. (And of course we had to eat some of the fruit loops as we glued!!)
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