The first week of school has come and gone and it has been a great one! The children got reacquainted with each other and fell into their regular groove rather quickly.
Art
This week we painted with tempera cakes, created with loose parts, drew self-portraits, created secondary colors using primary colors, and explored clay.
Language & Literacy
The children were very interested in the new writing center. They immediately got to work making lists and creating signs for their block structures. We also came up with our classrooms rules, practiced signing in, and helped complete the letters for our morning message.
Math
This week we played the prediction game (a game where I place a few items in a jar and the children guess how many items are inside). The children then drew a bar graph to represent their guesses. We also used a ten-frame to figure out the total to the equation 5+5.
Measuring was a hot topic this week as well. It began during morning meeting. Everyone was sitting around and Aidan began comparing the size of his foot with a classmate. Soon, everyone had their shoes off and began comparing feet. Leo then started measuring his foot with unit blocks, discovering that his foot is 1.5 unit blocks long. Then they found the rulers in the writing center and began measuring arms, legs, and heads.
Blocks
The children have been enjoying the block area. They spent the whole week creating boats out of hollow blocks, and towers out of unit blocks.
Movement
We have a gym space and the children are loving it! This week we’ve done obstacle courses, bean bag toss, and a variety of movement activities based on songs.
We also went out for a walk for the first time as a school. The Pre-K kids were very happy to show the younger ones how to hold the rope and walk outside.