Fourth week

I predict you may hear news from your preschooler today. We had an exciting schedule planned (our schedule is a linear posting of familiar icons that has our activities, both usual and special ones on it). Kids checked the schedule frequently during the morning. The big ticket items of our day were going to the teachers' room to view our Read for the Record book, Otis, on the big screen projector in there. We kind of pretended that we were going to the movies. The kids were very well behaved, and we'll do this again sometime for the other books on this site. Here is the link to that website (lots of great titles - a free log in):   http://www.wegivebooks.org/books/otis   .

The other exciting activity, well ... I'll back up a bit. You know we are in the midst of our family theme for dramatic play. Baking is readily considered a family activity, so yesterday we explored molasses cookie dough, as if it were playdough, for our creative art time, a multisensory activity for sure. We really got into it, sniffing the spices, gooey hands, creating different shapes and cutting them with plastic knives. Today I brought in baked molasses cookies  (made from an "unexplored" batch of cookie dough), and after rereading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, we happily sat down to cookies and lowfat milk at the end of our morning. It was a delightful time, though perhaps marginal in the eyes of our Health Policy.

Your students are getting the hang of working in pairs, which is something we do often in pre-k. Buddy Reading, some of our small group math activities, Share the News, and creative art events are done in pairs. The kids are learning the give and take of social exchanges, and the art of negotiation and collaboration during these times, really important stuff. It is an honor to be part of the process.

 
 Have a great weekend - Mrs. Bridgman