Well, we survived the last week of Christmas excitement! And what a fun week it was. We had a balloon-style countdown. Each day we popped one balloon that had a message hidden inside. The messages were fun activities we could do that day. The message in Wednesday's balloon was to enjoy a picnic snack! Click here to see pictures of our picnic fun. The students enjoyed making Christmas tree sensory bottles, gingerbread men, and of course, their gingerbread houses! Click here to see pics of our gingerbread man craft.
Our Christmas parties were a hit. We had fun playing Christmas bingo, watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and decorating gingerbread houses. A huge thank you goes out to Stacey May, Bill Harstad, and Jennifer White for volunteering to help out with house decorating. Thanks also to Olivia's Grandma and Sobey's for donating all of the icing. Click here to see pictures from our party fun.
The PreK staff was so spoiled, thank you for all of the wonderful gifts. We will certainly be enjoying them over the Christmas holidays.
MindUp Curriculum
This week in the MindUp Curriculum, we began talking about how other people are feeling. The concept of considering things from someone else's point of view can be difficult for PreK. I used the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to bring in this concept. We went through the story and chatted about the different characters and how they might have been feeling. I asked questions like, "why do you think Goldilocks ate the bears porridge? Maybe she was hungry? How do you think that made the bears feel? How do you think Goldilocks felt when she woke up?"
I also introduced the students to the concept of being an optimistic or pessimistic thinker (using a happy or sad brain to think about things). These are some big concepts for PreK, but I plan to review them continuously throughout the year to help reinforce the idea.
In the Gym
Last week worked on our locomotor skills and body awareness while we had some hula hoop fun. The students enjoyed turning hula hoops into cars while we played red light, green light. We also used the hula hoops for a version of musical hoops while dancing to Christmas music and then finding a hoop to stand in when the music stopped.
Coming Up
In the New Year our theme will be SPACE!
Important dates:
- January 9th - classes resume
- January 11th and 12th - early dismissal days
- the morning class will dismiss at 10:25am
- the afternoon class will dismiss at 2:15pm
- January 20th - Picky Eating FOP
- 9:30 - 11:00am
- January 23rd - No PreK today
- Black Gold ECS Teachers' Meeting Day
I would like to wish everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
See you in 2017!
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