June was such a busy month and it is hard to believe that the first
month of Summer Preschool is over!
Here's a recap of what went on at preschool this past month
June 3rd-The First Day of Preschool
Today was a crazy, hectic day with so many new faces to meet! The
children enjoyed getting to meet their new friends while we explored a short
''All About Me" unit. We introduced each other in Circle Time and We
learned what our friends liked to do, what they liked to eat and their
favourite things. We discussed the weather and dressed Ribbit the frog. The
children enjoy picking his outfit each time they come to preschool. Then we
read "From Head to Toe" by Eric Carle and the children had a lot of
fun moving their bodies to match the animals in the book. We sang songs and
played some games while learning about our new friends.
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| Checking out the big box. |
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| Making a pretty picture together. |
June 10th-Friendship
We added an attendance chart that we complete before Circle Time. The
children get to find their name and move it from the "My Class" space
to the "I'm Here Today" space to help with name recognition. Again we
talked about the weather and dressed. Ribbit.
Afterwards we read "Rainbow Fish" by Marc Pfister and talked
about sharing and what it takes to be a good friend. The children also enjoyed
"From Head to Toe" so much from last day, that we read it again! We
played games and made "Friendships" for everyone. We wrote the nice
things we noticed about each friend on them and hung them on the bulletin board
next to our pictures. We also made a craft for Father's Day which consisted of
a short poem and a handprint. The children enjoyed getting their hands painted
and commented about how much it tickled.
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| Playing in the Block Centre. |
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| Experimenting with magnets. |
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| Making our Daddy Day craft. |
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| Block play! |
June 17th-Flowers
We read “The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle and introduced the Days of the
Week song in Circle Time. It will become
a regular part of Circle Time to help children learn the days of the week. We discussed the different parts of the flower
and what they need to grow. We also did
a cool science experiment where we saw a white flower change colour by adding
food colouring to the water it sat in. The children found it fun to add the
food colouring and watch the colour change as preschool went on. We went outside to see what different flowers and plants we could find in the yard, and the children decided to catch bugs. We were even lucky enough to catch a dragonfly! When we came back inside, the children
cut out and coloured paper flowers which were later glued onto a ribbon that
was cut to their height. We stuck them on the wall to create our own little
flower garden and compared our heights. For our craft the children tore tissue
paper into pieces and glued onto a piece of paper to create their own flower
garden to take home.
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| Our colouring changing flowers. |
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| Bug hunting. |
June 24-Plants
During Circle time we
watched a video about Jack and the Beanstalk.
The Golden Goose had come to preschool the night before and left
everyone a golden egg with a surprise inside.
The children were excited to find their eggs and discover that there
were magic beans inside. We planted the
beans in cups for the children to take home.
The giant also visited preschool and left giant footprints. The children used them to find things that
were bigger and smaller. We measured and
cut out our own feet to compare who’s was bigger or smaller. The children used their imaginations and drew
pictures of what they thought was going to be at the top of their beanstalks
once they grew.
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| Seeing what's big and littler than the Giant's feet. |
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| The children's drawings of what they think is going to be at the top of their beanstalks. |
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| More bug hunting! |
