For a long time, my sweetheart and I have talked about going on an adventure and we've decided that now is the time. So I'll be taking a year off from teaching so we can sail off to fun locations and live aboard a boat. I will miss teaching, but am looking forward to making lots of new memories!
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Thursday, February 18, 2021
February 2021 - The groundhog said early spring but first some more winter
Our first day back at school in February was filled with books and information about Groundhog day. The kids pretended to live in tunnels, looked for their shadows and made cute hats to celebrate the day.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Preschool in the time of a world wide Pandemic
Our classes are smaller and we do lots of hand washing and disinfecting of surfaces, but life moves forward. And luckily amid all the other changes this year, 3 and 4 year olds are still what they have always been: full of energy and questions and excited about every new experience. Here are just a few things we worked on in Sept. 2020 along with some cute pics!
We learned the names and sounds of A, B, C and D. We sang about the sounds, played games like burping when you hear a word that begins with the letter B, practiced writing the letters and did art projects that reinforced the letter sounds.
We started learning the names of numbers 1-4, learned rhymes that helped us remember how to write them like "around a tree, around a tree that's the way to make a 3", filled bubble numbers with beans and other things so that we would remember how those numbers "feel" and for the older students we did counting pages and games.
We learned how to use a mouse on the computer and how to navigate to play the games we like best like color by number, building a pizza and knocking down a building made of letters.
We each have our own playdough and used it to strengthen our hands and practice sight words like "and" and "are". We have songs for both of those songs too.
We worked on pages for the ABC book that we will continue making throughout the school year.We made new friends and learned their names by doing the rhyme "biddely, diddley, bumble bee won't you say your name for me?"
We learned and sang lots of new songs. One of them was about being BRAVE, because that was the theme for September.
We played in the dramatic play center with a kitchen and food, a cradle and dolls. Pretending with friends is one of our favorite things.
We painted with watercolors and tempera paints and brushes.
We practiced counting the number of times we rolled a certain object on our special die.
We even painted one day with soap bubbles when we were studying the letter Bb.
Then we blew bubbles in our chocolate milk at snack time.
We played outside every day too. We soaked up the sun, ran, blew bubbles, threw balls around, drew with chalk and played on the playset.
We made "All About me" books.