Hi Parents!
I just wanted to touch base and let you know that I hope you and your children are doing well. It was very strange not being in school today!
In case you are searching for ideas of things you can do with your children during this break, the First Lutheran Preschool teachers have put their heads together to come up with some ideas for you!
Listed below are a variety of ideas:
And, finally, please check out this free information from Scholastic Magazine. We use the Scholastic resources in class every month (the "My Big World with Clifford" two page magazines that you receive). The resource in the link below provides free, short videos for the children and ideas of books to read, etc.
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-prek-k.html
Thinking of you all!
Miss Stuart
I just wanted to touch base and let you know that I hope you and your children are doing well. It was very strange not being in school today!
In case you are searching for ideas of things you can do with your children during this break, the First Lutheran Preschool teachers have put their heads together to come up with some ideas for you!
Listed below are a variety of ideas:
- Put a blanket over a table and play house, camping, store or ice cream shop under the table. Your child can bring their stuffed animals under the blanket and have the animals pretend to hibernate (like we did in class)! Allow your child to use a few safe items from your kitchen (bowls, spoons, cups) to add to the pretend play. Make your own play money with paper and crayons.
- Set up a "train" in your living room. Arrange the chairs in your house in a line and pretend to go on an adventure together. Or, enlist the stuffed animals and dolls to be the passengers.
- Get out paper, crayons, colored pencils, markers and stickers and have your child draw or color. If you're adventurous, let them practice gluing scraps of paper together. Practice cutting pieces of paper with child-safe scissors.
- Go on a color or letter hunt around your house, looking for specific colors or letters.
- Bake a cake, cookies or bread with your child.
- Have your child draw a picture for local healthcare works and write a letter thanking them for caring for others during this time and send it to a local hospital.
- Put some rice or dried beans in a (dry) empty water bottle to make your own maraca.
- Use empty coffee canisters or boxes as drums.
- Turn on your child's favorite music (or check out the MUSIC page on our preschool website for song's the children have learned in music class).
- Take a walk outside and listen to the sounds of nature.
And, finally, please check out this free information from Scholastic Magazine. We use the Scholastic resources in class every month (the "My Big World with Clifford" two page magazines that you receive). The resource in the link below provides free, short videos for the children and ideas of books to read, etc.
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-prek-k.html
Thinking of you all!
Miss Stuart
Dr. Doshi, a pediatric dentist, visits our class!
Our volunteer grandparent, Mr. Bill, loves to play with the children!
Making heart necklaces for Valentines Day.
Our study top this week was snow/snowmen! We decorated felt snowmen, made snowmen with doilies, and sang snowmen songs.
The Maryland Zoo visited us this week! They brought a boa constrictor, parrot and bunny! Of course we only got to pet the bunny!😊
One of our play dinosaurs put on a smock and pretended to paint as well!
The children have enjoyed this holiday season! They painted Christmas wreaths, played in our Christmas theme sensory bin, and played with Christmas cookie cutters in our play doh center.
The children love going to music class every Thursday with Ms. Karen!
The children had fun today playing in the fall theme sensory bin, playing with the fall theme cookie cutters in the play doh, making our fall corn project and playing in the Thanksgiving kitchen!
Although the chicks are back at the farm now, the children loved having them in our class for a couple of days!
Halloween fun! The children enjoyed dressing up in their costumes, having a special snack and sponge painting pumpkins.
We finished our apple tree today and hung it in the hallway! The children also made and tasted applesauce in class.
As part of our unit on apples, we painted a giant apple tree. We will add the apples to our tree during the next class.
Center time is fun!
The children have enjoyed studying our five senses, as well as playing in our farmer’s market.
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