Monday, February 14, 2011

Preschool for 2011-2012

Next year I am teaching preschool from 9:20 am - 11:50 am, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. It will be $65/ month with a materials fee of $25. Please pass the info on. Thank you!

V-Day, Letter M

Today we made Valentine "mailboxes". The kids decorated them themselves. All of the kids love to glue and color with markers. We exchanged valentines and also played musical chairs. The kids love it. I love to watch them.

We learned about the letter Mm also. The kids got their "motors" in their mouth going and we learned the sound and talked about "Monte the Mouse".

We started to do a "super reader" each day during circle time. The super reader helper of course wears a super hero cape and picks a noun (cat, dog, lion, mouse, etc..) and a color and I help them come up with a sentence using sight words. The super reader reads the sentence to me and then to the class and then the class reads it together. This skill is advanced for most of the kids in the class, but it gets them excited about reading and they learn which way to star reading and a few little words. It is a lot of fun. Our sentence today was "My zebra is white and black."

Ask the kids to sign "Itsy Bitsy Spider". I know that you have probably taught your child this but we have been working on it and they can sign it really good.



Field Trip to PetsMart

I know that it was a while ago, but I still wanted to post about our preschool field trip to PetsMart.

In the month of January we learned all about animals. About mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and birds. Each day after our snack time we learned about what animals look like and grouped pictures of the same kind of animal on a poster board.

At Petsmart we feed the fish, saw some dogs getting a bath, saw the animal hospital, touched the hamsters and mice, petted the snakes and lizards and heard the birds sing. We had a great time.