Making Playdoh

2 cups of flour

2 cups of water

1 cup of salt

1 tablespoon oil

1 tablespoon of creme of tarter

Mix and cook

Pretend Play

Making our own video games discs.  We cut circles out of paper, decorated them,  and used envelopes for their cases. 

Working Together We Created Our Own Puppet Shows

 

We made our own puppets. 

Then we put on our shows.

 We watched each other. 

 The boys did a ninja show.

 The girls did a ballet show.

 We made lots of puppets.

Snack Schedule Reminder

Joseph:  Wednesday Feburary 1st.
Katie:  Friday February 3rd, 6th, & 8th.

Letter Symbol Visual Discrimination Activities

 Playing Letter Symbol Bingo

 During our morning message we take turns finding and circling letter letters.  

 Playing "Go Fish" we catch letter fish and match them to the letters in our ponds.   

Prayers For Mrs. Brown....She started chemo last week and has eleven more sessions.

Another New Routine

"Reading" Letter Sound Books in small groups introduce us to skills such as finger to print, letter sound and symbol recognition and book concepts. ( top, bottom, cover page, author, numbers at the bottom of the page, front, and back )

New Routines Has Been Added To Our Morning

Emergent writers progress through specific stages.  Drawing a picture is an example of early writing..... you can tell a story with one picture.  (i.e wordless picture books like "Carl")  The following are the stages that children navigate through in this process we call writing.   

1. Marks and squiggle lines. 
2. A series of unrelated symbols letters and numbers
3. Beginning letter sounds
4. Child invented spelling or phonetic spelling
5. Conventional spelling 

In preschool we celebrate all of these stages. 

We have begun journaling every morning which is a surprisingly complex activity that involves a multitude of skills from a variety of domains.  (Cognitive, language, and fine motor)  Oral language and vocabulary development, the ability to articulate an organized thought, story sequencing,  and hand eye coordination and pencil control necessary to draw pictures are factors that come into play during this activity.  Mrs. Brown and I take dictation, and (the stories) dependent on the child, can be as short as a one sentence one page, or multiple pages and complete stories.   I do not give my students any ideas about what to write. Research has shown if children are allowed to write about what they are interested in then they will want to write.  Aditionally I could never come up with the imaginative stuff they come up with.