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Hump Day.....

8/31/2022

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The younger children are practicing following straight lines in their fine motor journals.  I make a green dot for starting point and red dot for stopping.   They are matching the letters on the shapes to the name plate, before too long they will not need the prompt and will be able to put the letters of their name in order without assistance!  They are doing great.  They also glued shapes in their fine motor journals.  This gives them practice with glue and gets all the tiny muscles in their hands moving. Each day I also let them practice cutting if they are interested, if only for 2-3 minutes it still is great practice and they are always so proud of their confetti!
I included some random pictures of free time play.  I am terrible about taking pics outside the preschool room.....The toy box seems to be the best place to hang out.  Everyday, someone takes out all the toys and hops in the box! 
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Directed Drawing.....

8/31/2022

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Today we drew a crayon, step by step!  This provides preschoolers practice with following directions and paying attention to detail.  They did such a great job today!
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Night and Day.....

8/30/2022

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More opposite practice today!  We used star cookie cutters for our night art and painting blue sky and yellow sun for day.  They used stickers to trace the first letter of their name.  
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Opposites.......

8/29/2022

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Preschool is the age when children learn all about opposites. Today we discussed opposites; up and down, hot and cold, tall and short, big and small, straight and curvy. Then, we made black and white opposite art!

The younger kids practiced drawing lines in their fine motor journals.
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Thursday 8-25-22.....

8/25/2022

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Today the younger kids used dot markers to fill in the first letter of their name. The older kids colored and traced their names. They were encouraged to draw circles in their fine motor journals.
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Hump Day.....

8/24/2022

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Each day we try to do a few minutes in our fine motor journals, and we work on their names daily. The younger children used stickers (great fine motor exercise), colored their names, and practiced cutting and tearing. They cut index cards (easier for the new learners) and strips of paper. The older children sorted numbers and letters in their fine motor journals. Cut and pasted strips of paper. One of the kiddos, cut paper, and lined up the two different colors (see pic) and said, "It is like blue vs. green!" I love to hear their thought processes. They played with the family counters and magnets, open play encourages collaboration, sharing, counting, sorting and conversation. Happy Hump Day!
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Random...

8/19/2022

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Here are a few pics of the littles playing and they have no idea they are learning!  I had a helper in the kitchen this week, we made Banana Bread.  Baking is an easy way to introduce early math skills (counting, weight, measurement, time) and early literacy skills (following step-by-step directions). A recipe card makes it very easy to follow step-by-step instructions. We looked at each step and I encouraged him to tell me the next step we needed to complete.  
 
We play with play dough quite a bit to help develop their little hands.  A few of the fine motor benefits are pushing, pulling, and shaping the dough work those small muscles of the hands. The same muscles that hold pencils, tie shoes, and move board game pieces. Adding literacy encourages conversation, "look, I found K for Kiki!"  Playing also encourages them to use their imaginations, "look, I made a tortoise!"  She used scissors to make the eyes.  
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Magic Play Dough.....

8/17/2022

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We talked about all the fun things we are going to learn about and do this year.  Each child picked a bag of "magic" play dough; I told them if it changes colors we will have the BEST year!  Each child squeezed their dough and they all changed colors!!  It will be a fun and exciting year for all and they will all be preschool super stars!  
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Back to School....

8/16/2022

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We are excited for a new school year!  We are slowly easing into our daily pre-school routine.  Today we built the letters of their first name, starting with mini erasers and then we used dot stickers.  They colored in their fine motor journals, cut crepe paper and glued into their journals.
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Celebrate......

8/10/2022

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Happy birthday to this beautiful, sassy, full of life kiddo!  Hope you have the best year!
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