Happy New Year!

We welcomed the new year Pre-K-style by practicing the countdown, watching fireworks, and making fireworks painting with fun paintbrushes made from straws.

Zoom Zoom Zoom

We learned an action song that had us blasting off into space. It was a great kick off to our space theme. We built numeracy skills by counting down and gross motor skills as we moved our hands and arms in different directions, practiced a crouching stance, and of course jumped as high as we could as we launched into the sky. You could try it at home!

(We counted down from 5.)

Sun Painting and Scissor Skills

We started a neat painting project of a sun using plastic wrap as a paint brush. The extra awesome part of this project was that we cut out the circle all by ourselves! We first had a scissor skill lesson where we sang The Daddy Finger song to learn about our fingers and learned this poem to help us with our scissor grip.

Fingers on the Bottom

Thumb on Top

Open the Mouth

and Chop Chop Chop

We talked about the importance of helper hand too. Then we practiced by cutting straws and licorice! Finally, we were ready to cut out a shape on paper. We did great!

Pete the Cat and his Cool Blue Magic Sunglasses 

(a lesson in emotional regulation)

We read a cool story about some cool blue sunglasses that led to some great conversations about our different emotions. The Pre-K's did a great job identifying how Pete and his friends were feeling. We took turns trying out a pair of cool blue magic sunglasses that helped the book characters see things in a whole new way. We also learned a little trick. We don't need to wear blue sunglasses to see things differently, we can just change how we are thinking about it. Groovy!

Box Town

Big thanks to everyone who sent in boxes for our box town. We've had so much fun stacking, taping, and creating with the boxes!

See more pictures of our week here.

Upcoming

Next week we have a few more fun space-themed activities planned. If you have any toilet paper or paper towel rolls, we would love to have them, thanks! Also each student will need one empty plastic water bottle for a craft, if you have any of those in your recycle bin you can also send one or two of those on Monday as well. Thanks so much!

February 5th  Early Dismissal Days

February 6th & 7th No School, Teacher's Convention

February 13th Valentine's Party, all students attend

February 17th Family Day, No School