Welcome Back

It was great to see everyone this week!  "Meet the Class Day" is always a fun event and a great way to transition into the school year.  Thanks parents for your support with this and for turning in all the needed paperwork.

Wednesday we read the book Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood.  During activity time we filled in a story based on this book.  The  pattern was I'm as ______ as a ________.  The kids had great ideas as we filled in the blanks! 

 We played several games to help us get to know one another.   The unanimous favorite was "hot potato".  We passed around a potato and whenever the music stopped, whoever was holding the potato had to shout out their name. Then the kids had a chance to go around the circle and try to say everyone's names.  Hopefully by the end of September we'll all know one another's name!

Thursday we heard several stories about preschool.  We heard Maisy Goes to Preschool and Spot Goes to School.  It was rainy outside so we did movement inside.  We listened to the song "Animal Action" by Greg and Steve and acted out all the different animals.  Your kids may show you how they pretended to be frogs, elephants, monkeys and snakes among other things!! During activity time the kids finger-painted with Mrs. Chyko and wrote their names using glue and cheerios with Mrs. Gould.

 We met our pet frogs today.  We've come up with some ideas but haven’t voted on them yet.  Next week we'll name our frogs!