Rumney Preschool
Ms. Murray's Classes
Hi Preschool Families! Announcements:
Another week in the books. Can you believe we are nearing the end? They have grown so much over the school year, it’s wonderful to see. As the year is starting winding down, I am going to start sending home all your children’s belongings (extra clothes, etc). We are also going to start working on our end of the year memory books. Both classes enjoyed drumming with Steve Ferraris, our Artist in Residency. It was so fun to watch them. They were amazed at how big the drums were and really loved drumming to a story about animals in Africa. Both classes will go again next week. There is a concert next Thursday, and while preschool is not participating, you are more than welcome to go and watch. This week, we did a big lesson on quilts and friendship. We read the book called The All Together Quilt by Lizzy Rockwell. In the story, kids and adults work together at a community center to create a quilt. Later on in the day, we all decorated our own construction paper quilt pieces. They worked hard to make each quilt pieces different and unique. We then worked together to put the quilt pieces together and arrange them in the way they wanted it to look. Both classes quilts came out beautifully! The Mon/Tues quilt is in the classroom and the Wed/Thurs one is on the bulletin board in the hallway. Please check them out next time you are in! Ask Your Child: Did you make a quilt this week? How did you make it? Where did you hang it? Have a good weekend, Deanna
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Hi Preschool Families! Announcements:
I hope you all had a lovely week. We had a blast in the classroom all week! Since there was no blog post last week, I will update you on something we did. We did a line study where we learned about different kinds of lines and how to make them. This was mainly for their Mother’s Day vase project, but it also helped them have better control over their writing utensil. In both classes, we talked about different kinds of lines and what they look like. We practiced them on the board after morning meeting, and the Wed/Thurs kiddos also practiced them on white boards during rest time. They were so excited to make their vases and show off how many lines they can make! I hope you all enjoyed the vases they made. On Monday, we spent a lot of time playing with a magnetic ball run. They set up the run in different ways and worked together to connect two into one. On both Monday and Tuesday, we loved drawing with chalk! They created lots of pictures on the sidewalk and enjoyed getting traced. In both classes, we read a classic favorite story called Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham. It is about a man with a boat and children and many animals join in until the boat tips over. The Wed/Thurs class acted it out on Thursday afternoon and had a blast! On Wednesday, they all worked together to create a wall with various materials from the block area. They started with cardboard blocks and wooden blocks and continued to add things on as the day went on. They were so proud of themselves! It was so nice to see everyone working together. Also on Wednesday, we read a story called Margaret’s Unicorn by Briony May Smith. It is a story about a child who finds a baby unicorn and helps it until it’s ready to go back to its family. After lunch that day, they colored a story about having a unicorn as a pet. Please check their backpack for the book and read it together. They all added so much detail to their coloring, you can really see their skills shine through there. On Thursday, we did a number walk around our school. There were different spring time pictures and they had to count them and write the number on their paper on a clipboard. Using clipboards make them feel so important and big! A few of them I had them tell me the numbers without guessing. That is called subitizing. Ask Your Child: Monday/Tuesday: Did you use chalk? What kind of pictures did you draw? Wednesday/Thursday: What was the weather like on the playground this week? Did it feel like spring or another season? 2 slideshows of pictures this week — one from last week and one from this week. Have a good weekend, Deanna Hi Preschool Families! Announcements:
Happy May! Glad to be back and spend time with your children as they learn and grow together. We have been enjoying playing outside on the playground in the rain. On Monday and Tuesday, everyone was really interested in playing games and doing big floor puzzles. A favorite game this week was a tea party game (pictured below). This game is by eeBoo. There are many games by eeBoo and Peaceable Kingdom that we love in the classroom. They are all easy to understand and most of them are cooperative games where we are all working together toward one common goal. A puzzles they loved were all vehicle puzzles. They loved pointing out all the different vehicles and what they are meant for once we completed the puzzles. It was a rainy worm finding day on Wednesday! The playground was a perfect spot to uncover and find worms. They spent most of their outside time running around and checking in with each other once they found some as they collected them in buckets. The sense of community was lovely as we watched some friends say, “I can’t find any!” and then quickly, other pals were jumping in to let them know to show them where to look. Ask Your Child: Monday/Tuesday: What games and puzzles did you do? Did you play the tea party game? Wednesday/Thursday: Did you find a worm on the playground? Did you want to touch it or not want to touch it? Have a great weekend, Deanna |
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June 2023
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