Class Party!

The Preschool Awards

Please join us for music, student awards, a picture slideshow, and a picnic!

Monday, June 5, 2017

at 1:45 pm (promptly!)

Things that Grow

Happy Spring!

I cannot believe we are in the final stretch of the school year! As we welcome May, we begin to reflect on how much we have grown and learned this year. 

This week we began our unit on "Things that Grow." In this unit, children will learn about how living things grow. We will explore books, perform experiments, and make observations. 

"Theme Concepts;

Living things grow and have life cycles

Living things need food, water, and proper living conditions to survive

Immature living things need special care

Living things interact"

Here are the activities your child will be participating in this spring:

Small Groups:

Motor Group

Alphabet Soup

Shaving Cream

Water Colors

Plant Seeds

Butterfly Decorating

My Cloud Reminds Me Of...

Fork Flowers

How things Grow (life cycle)

Size Sort

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Journal Page (When I Grow Up)

Life Cycle of Caterpillar

Color Sort

Vegetable Memory

Make Way for Ducklings

Making Nests

Patterning

Sequencing Growth Cards

Matching baby animals to parents

Measuring Ourselves

Shape Sort

Books:

    

Shadows and Reflections

This week we have begun our unit on Shadows and Reflections. In this unit your child will explore shadows and reflections, using observations, experiments, and books to learn what makes a shadow and a reflection. This unit is a lot of fun with lots of mathematics, science, music, poetry and art activities!

OWLS Shadows and Reflections - Theme concepts

• "Reflections are images thrown back from a shiny surface.
• There must be light or there is no reflection.
• Mirrors and still water reflect light well; dull surfaces do not.
• If water is moving, its reflections is blurry.
• Shadows are the dark areas made when an object blocks the light."

Here are the activities your child will be participating in:

Small Groups:
- Whose Shadow
- Animal Pattern
- Tallying Animals
- Puddle Pail
- Memory Game
- Upper/Lowercase Match
- Number ID

Large groups:
- Is this a Reflector?
- Shadow Tracing

Stories: