News Sharing, Graduation prep, and more!

Pre-k has been enjoying sharing their weekend happenings. Everyone has been sharing their adventures and fun projects. This has led to so many interesting topics of what is currently happening in their lives and in the world. We are so happy that everyone is getting out and enjoying the Spring weather and time with family. Please continue to share weekend news with us!

Happy Virtual Field Day!

We are so proud of you Pre-K, you all did such amazing participation today. Thank you for joining and we hope you enjoyed your time with Coach Doug and Coach Bob.

Two little words...

This week we have been focusing on Space and practicing for Graduation. The children have been discussing science regarding germs and now space. They are most interested in space shuttle launches, and the solar system.

We also watched a live stream of Earth from Space. The children had so many questions and discussed their Planet Earth observations.

“You need a special helmet and a special costume to travel to Space. -Katerina

Ellis shares his sketch of Earth.

We can’t believe it is almost the end of the school year. Also, SpaceX will attempt to launch again this weekend! Stay tuned!

Graduation is almost here. We are rehearsing our song and special surprises during our meetings. We have attached our song on here so that you can continue practicing at home with your family.

Graduation is here!

Things are a little different this year. Pre-K is keeping strong celebrating each other. Our meetings are filled with wonderful conversations on how we can keep smiling together through this all. They plan exciting events and work together to design activities for our afternoon meetings. The children are always so excited to mail out cards to one another and stay for virtual playdates. We are slowly seeing everyone going back to doing some normal things, like visiting local nurseries and picking up lunch! We love hearing about everyone’s weekend family adventures.

This week we celebrated Maria’s Birthday in very Quarantine style. Additionally, we have started practicing for our grand celebration of all, Graduation!

Talent Show!

This week the children took part in a talent show. We asked the children to prepare a talent to share during our meeting. The children were so excited to share their special talent/skill.

William plays a melody for us with his guitar.

Malina shows how to apply lipstick.

Adela was so excited to share her coloring skills!

Geneva shares her special talent, her amazing pipe cleaner creations.

Katerina shares her drawing skills. She also shared some of the drawings her parents have done. She is mostly proud of her journal/notebook.

Celebrations, Literacy, and News Sharing

We have had a major turn around this week. The children have been really excited to share more about current/special news surrounding their lives at the moment. This week Mercer took us to her grandparents house where she got to spend quality time with all of her grandparents. William introduced us to his puppy Ella, and he shared a little about how he has been adjusting to having apart of the family. Geneva has been really busy at home creating balloon animals, baking, and she loves sharing her puppets with us. Ellis is very proud of his schedule choices, he is always so excited to tell us all about his planned afternoon. Malina has cerated a space in her home where she plays video games with her pretend game controller. Adela is so proud of her new notebook. She uses it to write her name and practice her drawing skills. Katerina continues to explore her love for art, this week she created buildings with window details out of paper. She was very proud of her work. Charlotte has also been super busy taking care of her twin sisters and she is most excited about going on her family car rides.

This week the children also prepared a nice surprise for a special someone that will be celebrated this weekend. In addition to that they also planned a fun surprise for teachers. They surprised us with beautiful written signs that read, “Thank you.”

Creating the classroom environment together

This week we worked on rhyming, played memory games, participated in movement, and had so such a great time creating a fun creation center in our virtual classroom. The children enjoy collecting materials and joining our meetings for creation center. During our afternoon activities the children worked on tin foil art. We asked the children to bring along a few sheets of foil paper and their imagination! We were so impressed at. what they came up with.

Ellis created boats!

What is a rhyme?

Ellis: A rhyme is when you have two words that end in the same sound.

Will: It's like a word that sounds like a different word with different letters and has the same number of letters and ends in the same sound.

Geneva: If you say something that sounds the same it can make a pattern. 

Mercer: Like cat and hat.

Pre-K has been really enjoying our Creation Center. They enjoy collecting materials and bringing their artwork for a “show and tell.” This has really helped in getting to hear more from the children. They really appreciate the freedom in creating, it allows their creative minds to collect ideas and share them with us.

Week of the Young Child

We started off the week with Music Monday. We surprised Malina with a concert by Elton John playing one of her favorite songs, “I’m still standing.” We were surprised by Ellis who kindly shared his talent/skill by playing his guitar for us. The children enjoy singing with us during our morning meetings. They requests songs in both Spanish and English and keep themselves active by participating in dancing and following along.

Tasty Tuesday was a fun fruit sushi cooking activity. The children worked on spreading their choice of butter and combination of fruits. We then rolled it up and enjoyed together. We are working on our independency and problem solving skills.

Work together Wednesday was all about saying Thank You to all of our first responders for doing everything they can to keep us all safe and healthy. We love hearing Pre-K stories about their evenings spent cheering on the first responders by their front stoop or displaying rainbows on their windows to spread smiles and hope. It has been an amazing experience watching how much our Pre-K children are getting involved during these very challenging times.

Artsy Thursday was one of our messiest yet most fun day of the week. Art and Science are two of Pre-K’s most requested activities.

Family Friday was about discussing and celebrating all families, big and small.

Ellis: It's like people that live together in one place. Families keep growing. Some people have two moms.

Adela: A brother, daddy and mommy.

Geneva: Dogs have families. When we all live together at the same time and the same age, you are a family. 

Will: Some people don't have moms.

"One day I had a dream that the corona virus went away."

It’s hard not to talk about the thing that is affecting all of us around the world. We are really all in this together. It is why we are trying our best to focus on the positives and since this is a topic of interest to Pre-K, being our germ project, it has become part of our curriculum. Our morning meetings are filled with questions and comments discussing the pandemic. The children are really getting creative from what to do while staying safe at home to how we can spread smiles to our first responders!

“How did the corona virus come out?”

— Mercer

“How does it spread?”

— Charlotte

William: It’s a virus that came form China. 

Katerina: I think the corona virus came from Florida.

Malina: The virus came from Denmark. 

Mercer: The corona virus came from bats because they have a lot of gross stuff. They spread the corona virus to us with their mouths when they make sounds.

Geneva: Actually, I think it came from Chinatown. If someone sneezes on you or if their food has germs, and you touch it, you can get the germs of the corona virus.

Malina: The corona virus is invisible.

Adela: The virus is behind trees, it’s everywhere. 

Malina: People have to stay home for a long time because the corona virus is spreading everywhere.

Ellis: I know the corona virus can make you sick because it’s a very sick germ. One of my grandparents is fighting the virus. The corona virus hasn’t come to him.

Geneva: The virus likes to live in crowded places. Everyone should stay home.

Malina: Maybe I can make a flu shot to fight the corona virus.

Ellis: You have to wash your hands for a long time. If you touch everything you can get the germs.

Malina: Me and Fifi always share germs. She shares her germs on my face and then it spreads everywhere. 

Ellis: I want to know how will get the corona virus to go away?

Katerina: I want to see whats inside the virus?

Geneva: What’s inside the skin of the virus?

“One day I had a dream that the corona virus went away.”

— Ellis

Geneva: We can help people that are sick.

Katerina: We can also help the people that are a little sick not so sick.

Ellis: We can send them to the doctor and we can make them a happy card.

Katerina: We can’t go to the hospital because that’ll make us sick.

Geneva: We can call them.

Malina: Maybe we can send them flowers to the hospital.

Katerina: Maybe we can make a kite for them.

Adela: I think we can send them a pretty heart card.

Ellis: How can you send them flowers if we can’t go to the store?

Geneva: There are flower shops open around where I live in I think that’s a little weird…

Corona virus questions and concerns...

This week the Pre-K children had many questions about what is currently happening around the world. They are very aware of the importance of staying home due to a new virus that is making people really sick. They understand that in order to contain the spread of the corona virus and keep each other safe we must stay home. Unfortunately, Pre-K has expressed sad feelings about the situation but they are staying hopeful that we return to school soon. Luckily, we had a conversation about how, as families, we are doing the best we can to enjoy each day at home with our loved ones. We were happy to receive so much good feedback from Pre-K about how staying home is not a bad/sad thing at all, the children are actually excited that “mom doesn’t have to go on a work trip.” -Mercer.

Ellis: If you touch everything you get germs.

Malina: Me and Fifi always share germs. She shares her germs on my face and then it spreads everywhere. 

Ellis: I want to know how will get the corona virus to go away?

Ellis: One of my grandparents is fighting the virus. The virus hasn’t come to him. 

Mercer: How did the corona virus come out?

Charlotte: How does it spread?

Katerina: I want to see whats inside the virus?

Geneva: What’s inside the skin of the virus?

Pre-K special friends:

We want to hear more from Pre-K and since they are always so excited to share their special friends from home, we thought it would be fun to create stories about their experiences at home through the eyes of their special stuffed animals/toy figures. We look forward to hearing more adventures next week!

Virtual Meeting Upgrade to a larger group!

Now that we are ready for larger group meetings, together, we made a promise to listen and be respectful to one another. We are practicing raising our hand when we are ready to share. Pre-K is so excited that they now get to see everyone, it is definitely giving us all a feeling of togetherness and normalcy. We are so excited to make this an everyday experience.

Adela is really excited about the vegetables growing. She displayed her collage on her bedroom wall.  Adela has been busy with paper creations with Chela. She wants to play letter games with the group. She wants to do more cutting activities.If I try to make Elsa I can ask for help. My mommy brought play dough so now there’s play dough to play with.

Malina has mastered her focus during our morning meetings. She is actively listening and participating! Malina is more confident these days and has so much to share while staying on topic. She is really excited about her new work notebook, and she also has set a goal for herself, she wants to learn how to read in Danish!

Charlotte has been enjoying spending more time with her sisters, “I am going to cry out of happiness.” She has been taking care of them by playing with them and teaching them how to write and draw. She has been reminding her sisters to put the cap on markers. “They have been making big messes. They get a lot of sugar rushes and go crazy.” Charlotte is also enjoying sleeping in like sleeping beauty. “I slept for like 100 minutes.”

Mercer has been enjoying nature walks with her parents, “I saw hummingbird in someones backyard. I walked to the lake and my daddy thought it wasn’t a real one. It was sitting on a rock and it had moss on it. I also saw a beaver in my frontward. The grass there is starting to grow flowers.”    

Geneva has developed a new hobby during our morning meetings. She loves to play dress-up! She always has props on-hand when we sing songs and she loves to share about all of the amazing things she is currently working hard to learn these days. This week she gave us a tour of her room.

Katerina is mastering her art skill. This week she painted a garden.

“I went to the beach and collected more shells. One day we went to the beach and we saw one this big! But it was all broken. But maybe we can find the pieces that broke off and stick them back together with glue.”

She is excited to watch the kangaroos. I love them because they carry a baby in their tummies. 

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William picked out a puppy this weekend! They haven’t figured out a name but William wants to name her Poodle. He has been going on bicycle rides, “I have a red bicycle.”

He’s been observing animals, “I watched a hippo. I watched it on TV but it’s a real life animal. It’s not videos of whats happening right that second but they are real life animals.”

He also had a Zoom party! “I had a Zoom party! With my family. It was my 2 cousins, their mom, and dad from California. My grandma and my grandpa from Arizona. And my mom’s sister. my aunt, Virginia. 

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Rsnsom shared that his cousin Cole is in town, he was so excited. “He came with his dad, Richard, and his mom, Michelle.

“I go a new drone, do you want to see how it works?”

“I miss school so much.”

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Ellis has been really enjoying his family walks, “We sometimes take different routes on neighborhood walks. We go to Tribeca, sometimes we may go down to Soho. We usually stay in Soho not the end of Soho.”

Ellis got a new haircut this week! He looks so much older! Ellis discussed about his new home schedule.He is happy that he has many options. One of his options this week was a puzzle. Maria shared the puzzle with tiny pieces she worked on this week too. Ellis has a notebook where he practices his writing. “This notebook has lots of pages, maybe 100, so I can practice a lot.”

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Keeping up with Pre-K

Special Events:

This week during Literacy week, the children joined read-alouds, participated in gardening with Maria, and meditated with Annabel. We are so happy to see that everyone has been enjoying the classroom assignments. Also, so many friends have started receiving their pre-k letters.

Here is what the children are currently working on…

Katerina has been  practicing her letters and numbers. She is currently exploring watercolor and observational painting. She shared with the group some of her amazing creations: a colorful painted boat with ocean waves, and a tree with cherries. One observation we have made is her love of capturing the sun. She never seems to forget to paint a beautiful, bright sun! She and her family will sometimes go for walks on the beach to look for seashells. She shared some of her glittery seashell finds. She has also been working on her writing, we are so proud, and happy she is enjoying her time in Long Island.

Adela has been experimenting with paper, she created little people. She shared that she has been cooking, making waffles, and enjoying them with peanut butter. One of her favorite things to do while in Long Island is going for walks on the beach and searching for seashells.

Charlotte has been keeping herself busy buildings tents and working on mastering her name. She was so excited to give us a tour of her room in her Long Island home. Charlotte has been mostly excited about Literacy themed week. For “dress as your favorite pet day” she and her puppy Chester were identical twins!

Ellis shared with us his favorite things to do while at home are reading and playing the piano. Ellis’ is continuing his piano lessons on his computer since he is unable to go in person at the moment. He has also been busy working on maps.

Ellis: I cannot make a map of Manhattan and Brooklyn because Manhattan is too big and Brooklyn is too big. That would be a very long map. It would take so long.

What will you do with your maps? “If the Corona virus goes away by the time I am grownup I will travel the world with my maps.” -Ellis

Geneva has been busy gardening, she is currently growing vegetable people, she named them Furry and Fuzzy. She has also been interested in observing Maria’s growing stems. She named one of Maria’s carrots “lady carrot.” Geneva has been enjoying these past few sunny, city days on her roof with dad and walks with mom.She is currently working on a dragon fly and her caterpillars have safely arrived!

We are also proud that she has been keeping a notebook of everything she wants to learn about once we return to school.

“My mom and I went for a walk. We saw flowers. We are also ordering caterpillars!”

— Geneva

William has been practicing his reading skills. During one of our chats he read us a book by Mo Willems. He also has been enjoying playing a fun drawing game on his iPad with his dad. He has been working with layers, colors and patterns.

How to play the game?

William: You can make different layers and put them together by taping here, that makes all of the layers come together in the same picture. It’s really interesting.

One of his Creations: I put the red underneath and then I drew a helicopter over it. The red is the ground. I also made one with a blue background. 

Ransom has been so excited to give us a tour of his house in Texas. He was mostly excited to show us how high he jumps on his trampoline. He has been practicing writing his name and mastering the letter S.

Mercer has been enjoying her time in Pennsylvania. She has been working on observational paintings and making her own bracelets at home. While at her home in NYC, she gave us a tour of her creation corner where she keeps all of her fun materials. Mercer has been super focused during our group chats, we had to capture her thinking face.

Malina has been having so much fun exploring the forest near her Boston home. She always has adventure stories to share with the group. She and her brother Yunes-Alexander even built a tree house! As you may know by now, Malina is an animal lover, she loves her puppy Fifi. She was so excited to share that she is caring for a new friend during this time. Her name is Lucy and she is “super big, calm, and sweet.”

Welcome to our virtual classroom!

A message from The Pre-K Team

We hope you all have had a wonderful week! We are happy to report that we have received great feedback and so much support from our Pre-K families. We know this current moment in our lives is difficult and a big adjustment, especially for our little ones but we will overcome and work this through, together, as a community. Pre-K parents, you are all doing such an amazing job supporting the children’s daily schedules, thank you for remaining active posting homefuns, and the assignments on our google classrooms. It has been a key element for us teachers in staying connected with the children.

On the bright side, we are realizing that this experience is beginning to tie in with our community project. Our future plan was to eventually take trips to our favorite local shops, restaurants, and maybe even visit each others homes. In some way, we are getting a glimpse of our homes through our virtual chats. We are connecting in a different level. The children are so excited to give us tours of their bedrooms, introduce their family pets, and share all of the amazing things they like to do while at home.

This week’s happenings in our virtual classroom:

We have planned a fun themes for Literacy week next week. The children were also very excited to share some of their favorite story books from home.

Our specials this week have been a huge success, the children are so excited to join our live videos and participate!

Home Projects: Pen Pals

Ellis has initiated a special project in hopes that everyone joins in on the fun. We are so excited to see pictures and videos of Pre-K sending/receiving beautiful written cards and drawings from each other!

We also heard Geneva has ordered caterpillars, I think we see another project coming very soon!

Homefuns and assignments seem super enjoyable for you all! Please continue to post on our google classroom.

Themes for next week’s virtual meetings:

The children have planned to dress up for next week, this is what we came up with!

Monday: Check ins/Individual morning meetings

Tuesday: Dress up as your pet/your favorite animal

Wednesday: Favorite Story Character

Thursday: Sports day

Friday: Tea party

We love our little morning chats! We will be emailing you all shortly with a new plan for the following weeks. We have so many planned activities and more ways to interact with the children virtually! We cannot wait to share it with you all.

Warm virtual hugs,

The Pre-K Team!

Germs and a special project with Zack!

We are designing a glowing cloud for one of our classroom displays.

This week Geneva’s dad, Zack, joined our classroom for a fun and messy activity. He is helping us design a cloud for one our classroom displays. He designes the cloud using wire and left the fun part for us. Everyone got messy and worked together to cover the cloud with paper mache. The children are enjoying the process and cannot wait to see their finished masterpiece.

Germs: Can you see them?

A little sneeze is a powerful way to send thousands of bacteria and germs flying into the air. The Pre-K children are beginning to understand the concept of spreading germs and the importance of preventing it from happening.

To demonstrate how a simple sneeze produces droplets of germs into the air, we filled a spray bottle with water. We sprayed the water into the air and demonstrated how it gets on everything. The children were surprised to see how quickly germs can spread with a sneeze.

We want to provide Pre-K with a visual of how germs transfer from 1 place to another and how fast that can happen. We also wanted them to think about the surfaces in our school where most germs live. The children took a swab to pick up germs for our germ study.

Pre-K will make observations and draw them in our journals. We wonder what they will look like when we return from the weekend.

**REMINDER: BUCKLE MY SHOE WILL BE CLOSED ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6 FOR STAFF DEVELOPMENT.

Presidents Week

What would your “promise” be if you were President?

After reading Grace for President Pre-K got inspired and motivated to want to make a change in the world. We wanted to know what great things they would do for their friends if they became President one day. Here’s what we heard:

Geneva: I would not boss everyone around.

Malina: I would promise to give hugs.

William: I would be bossy.

Katerina: I would watch the people to make sure they don’t get hurt.

Mercer: I would give presents to everyone.

Adela: I would help everyone.

Ransom: I would smile.

During the story the children wanted to tally up the votes of the election so we very excited to make turn this into a fun math activity.

What does it mean to be President?

Celebrating Kindness and Friendship

Friendship

Young activist changing the world: Celebrating our friends, who they are, and the many qualities that make us special.

Our goal this year has been for the Pre-K students to become activists in their own way by spreading awareness on the importance of kindness. One of our many goals this school year is to be an active participant in inclusivity and kindness. The children collaborate and work with new partners each week so that they have the opportunity to build relationships, connect with one another, and not limit their friendship opportunities. 

Kindness Week (all year around)

One of the many ways we exercised kindness this week was by sharing a special memory and giving compliments to one another. We each took a turn to sit in the middle of our kindness circle and listen to wonderful things about each other. This activity was a confident booster for the children, they were so happy to hear from their peers wonderful things about themselves. It really made them smile and connect with each other.

We also discussed ways to share kindness with our community outside of our school. Our community project is still in the works and this a perfect opportunity to expand on it and become active members of our community.

Donation Box: Help us bring joy to other children in our community.

The Pre-K children have come up with a wonderful idea of giving back to “children that don’t have a lot of toys to play with.” They have initiated a donation box in which they are slowly filling up with toys/books/clothes that need a new home (with your consent)! **Homefun: We ask that you please talk with your child and together pick out 1 (gently used) item to add to our to our donation box. We greatly appreciate your support.

We are also planning a wonderful friendship celebration in our classroom for Valentine’s day. We are celebrating friendship and spreading kindness. The Pre-K have extended their invitation to other children outside of our school. They want to include the whole school in our celebration. The children put together an invitation see below.

Growing Crystals and more

Crystal in an eggshell

The Pre-K children are currently exploring their theories about crystals, and also discussing their knowledge of what causes them to grow into “sparkly” creations. This week we reused egg shells for our crystal research. We carefully observed the empty eggshells and realized it was going to be a challenge to work with such fragile materials. We used glue and epsom salt to begin creating our crystals.

Pre-K thoughts…

“The crystal’s are really beautiful. But these are not ready yet. ”

— Charlotte

“The salt is glittery and if you put the salt on the egg it will make it sparkly too. ”

— Katerina

Katerina is making the connection between the salt and the crystals. We believe that her understanding is that the flashes of light in the salt is what is causing the crystals to shine. What are your thoughts?

“If this egg falls it will break into pieces. Small pieces and the egg will sparkle. ”

— Mercer

“My egg got smooshed. It might open when it dries. Also, if there is salt that is not stuck to the egg it will fall out. ”

— William

“If the egg is a little crinkly the salt will come out.”

— Ellis

“I think when it dries it will turn into a blue egg.”

— Malina

“When my egg dries I want to paint it. ”

— Adela

“The sparkle (in the salt) is like crystals. ”

— Geneva

Rainbow in a jar

We also created a rainbow in a jar using different liquids. Our first experiment was using only colored water. We tried layering them but there was no separation.

“Water mixes together. When it moves it shakes up and mixes. it’s water.”

— William

We then tried a second time, this time we used a variety of liquids.

“Honey is very sticky and it moves really slow. ”

— Geneva

Black History Month

History: Are we really that different?

This week we are learning and celebrating Martin Luther King Jr! We have read books about MLK Jr’s childhood, his dream that all people are treated equal/ the same, and how hard he fought to make his dream possible. The children love learning about our history and can relate so much to MLK’s dream. We’ve notice the children standing up for one another and speaking up for when things seem unfair. We took this amazing opportunity to introduce the idea of diversity and cultural differences to the Pre-K children.

We also wanted the children to have a visual demonstration to give them better understanding of what diversity means. One of the most amazing things about children is that they are observant and very curious about the world around us. They notice cultural differences, languages, and everything that makes people different. We want to take a moment to celebrate and accept those special differences and how they are a way of life so that our children spread positivity and project acceptance, and inclusivity everywhere they go. However, it is also important we explore all of the amazing things that make us the SAME and that we need each other to work together to create a better community/world. In the end, we are all the same on the inside!

The egg experiment: what’s the same? What’s different?

We asked the children to search for any difference in the two eggs; one brown and one white. We then asked them to sketch their observations on paper. We also asked them what they think the eggs look like on the inside. Additionally, we discussed all about skin color and all of the amazing things underneath our skin. In the end, the children noticed that although the eggs were different colors on the outside, they were exactly the same on the inside.

Home fun:

During the holiday, we kindly ask that you please take a look at your neighborhood. We want the children to begin discussing change. We believe that if we encourage the children to start small by recognizing what changes their neighborhood may need. “”

Science Fair Preparations

Science Project #1: Rainbows and Weather

This week in the Pre-K, the children were asked about theories they would like to put to test! Our annual Science Fair is quickly approaching and in preparation we are project planning! The children have so many great ideas and are very curious about the world around them. We first had a group discussion to share about all of the interesting things we are knowledgeable about and realized that there’s so much we can learn from each other. We then talked about the many things we are curious about and want to learn more about. One popular topic are rainbows! Here’s what they said:

In addition to our Science Fair, we have also revisited our community project and began planning and discussing all about our favorite places to visit in our neighborhoods. This project will encourage children to get familiar and connect with their community.

Which is your favorite place to visit in your neighborhood:

William: I love a red park that is really close to my house because I love swings.

Katerina: I love a restaurant that is a little far from my home, I love it because my favorite food is pasta and they have pasta. 

Ellis: I have two favorite places. A restaurant called Blue Smoke because I get healthy food and after I get dessert. And The Odeon I love because for breakfast and brunch I eat granola with berries and bananas and yogurt, and if it’s lunch or dinner I get pasta with salt and parmesan. 

Mercer: I love Whole Foods because I get to pick carrots and chicken.

Geneva: My favorite is Tribeca’s Kitchen because their food is really good
Malina: The candy shop, to buy candies.

Community Project

Holiday Celebrations

Math

This week the children were working on their number recognition skills by playing a fishing game. They would fish out the numbers and call them out. They had a blast! We also played a nu,ber recognition game after reading “The Snowy Day”.

Literacy and Fine Motor Skills

This week our name game is still popular. The children gained so much confidence they asked to add their middle and last names to the game. We also worked on our fine motor skills crafting our super hero capes, and writing our names backwards on Backwards day.

Celebrations and Themed Days