Rumney Preschool
Ms. Murray's Classes
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Another fun week in the books. It was great to watch them grow and learn together. On Monday and Tuesday, we are watching their friendships form! They are enjoying spending time together and learning what their friends like to do that is the same. They like to make connections! Both classes enjoyed “doing work” on the playground this week with shovels. The Monday/Tuesday class used it to scoop up mulch and make piles around the playground and the Wednesday/Thursday class worked on scooping out dirt out of the sandbox. Both classes continued to enjoy taking pictures this week with the instant camera. On Thursday, we spent some time out in the hallway putting up our display of learning on the bulletin board. Please check it out next time you drop off your child! There are fantastic quotes from them on what they like to take pictures of and why they take pictures. Having the children put up the items on the bulletin board, oppose to an adult putting it up, gives the kids more autonomy on their learning. I watched them step back and admire what they just did with smiles on their faces. In both classes, we discussed our daily schedule. Some friends made schedules to take home and some will do them next week (or not! It is still the beginning of the year and I balance the “have tos” and “want tos” while they play). Hopefully they will be able to tell you what they do during the day. Ask Your Child: Mon/Tues: What does your school day look like? After morning meeting, what do you do? (wash hands and eat snack). After lunch, what do you do? (play in the classroom) Have a wonderful weekend! Deanna
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This week was so fun. The Mon/Tues class are building their classroom community, although it is small! The Wed/Thurs class is continuing to build their classroom community, and enjoying playing together as they are starting to pick up on each other’s similar interests. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, we enjoyed a ton of time out on the playground. Swings were a big hit! It was great to see how excited they got to get pushed super high on the swings. On Tuesday, we let the butterflies go! It was so exciting for the kiddos to bring out a butterfly at dismissal and show it to their grown ups as we let it go. We took pictures of the butterfly and I printed them out to hang in our classroom to promote conversations. Speaking of photos, on Thursday of this week, the kiddos enjoyed using an instant camera to learn about photography. They were patient while learning how to use the camera, and enjoyed taking photos of what was important to them. Some photos of note were: a ball in the gym, their friends, many photos of Crystal (we love Crystal!), and a castle they built. We will be learning more about photography in the next week or so (in both classes). Please be on the lookout for a new display of learning on the bulletin board in the hall once we wrap up this project. Check out the slideshow pictures at the bottom of the blog to see some pictures of them taking pictures! It was fascinating to see them learn how to use a camera, and then explain how to use it. Below are some quotes on how to use the camera: “You push it up first then you look at it. You press the button to take the picture. -Scout” “First, you pick it up. Then you look in it. You look in the little spot to see what you want to take a picture of. You press the button and it takes the picture. The picture comes right out. -Ali” We enjoyed the gym on Thursday. While I love to get out in the rain, it was coming down pretty hard during our outside time, and they absolutely love the gym. I brought our climber down and set up some mats for tumbling and doing yoga. I overheard one friend running by me saying, “This is the best day of my life!!!!” They had a blast! Ask Your Child: Mon/Tues: What did you do with shovels on the playground? Wed/Thurs: Did you use a camera? How does the camera work? How do you get the picture to come out? Enjoy the first weekend of fall! Deanna Hi Preschool Families! Announcements:
Thank you so much for stopping in for Open House! It was our first open house since 2019!!! It was wonderful to see folks back in the building again. Your kiddos really enjoyed showing you around the classroom and school. In both classes this week, we played with some shaving cream and cut up pool noodles. They used the shaving cream to work as an adhesive to see how high they could stack the pool noodles. Some pretended they were frosting a cake or some pretended they were apples and they were stacking them on top of one another. Speaking of apples — the W/Th crew had a blast collecting bags of apples on the playground yesterday. They collected apples, sticks, mulch, and dirt. They had a blast! In both classes, they spent some time looking in mirrors and making some silly art faces that I put on the bulletin board. Next time you drop off your child, be sure to check out the bulletin board and scan their QR code to see a quick video of your child! On Thursday, Ms. Honi, who many of you know, dropped off some GIANT sunflowers for us to use! They enjoyed measuring themselves and counting how many blocks tall the sunflowers were. They also spent part of the afternoon getting the seeds out to collect and take home. This class sure loves collecting! It’s been lovely to watch your children start to build strong connections with one another, or build upon a connection from last year. I am looking forward to watching your children grow up together! Ask Your Child: Were there a lot of apples on the playground this week? Do you think there will be more next week? What color were the apples? Thanks, Deanna Hi Preschool Families! Announcements:
Another week in the books with my favorite pals! They had a great week of exploring and playing. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, it was a pretty small crew. They enjoyed playing all sorts of things together — matching games, at the water table, swinging outside. In both classes we started doing a directed drawing of an apple. While I tend to appreciate process over product art, directed drawings can be helpful for many skills such as: following directions, taking turns, identifying colors, fine motor skills. They enjoyed doing their apples in both classes! Sometimes our directed drawings are on big paper with watercolor paint and some are on small papers with paint sticks. On Wednesday, we welcomed our grown up Haley back after her wedding! Some kids met her for the first time and some knew her from the end of last school year. Also on Wednesday, they used shovels on the playground to move mulch under the swing sets so they could reach the swings without any adult help. They love to work! Many kiddos on Wednesday and Thursday decided to climb the rock on our playground. I think of this rock as a rite of passage for a Rumney 4 year old. It is a great climbing rock but is really tricky to climb as a 3 year old. They all patiently waited in line and took turns climbing it with my help. After each child got to the top, I asked them the same question: Do you feel strong and brave? Everyone said yes! If you happen to be on our playground on a weekend or not school day, ask your child to show you how they climb it! Pete the Cat books and Jabari Jumps have been some class favorites this week! In Jabari Jumps, Jabari is nervous to climb the tall ladder to jump off the diving board. He works through being scared with the help of his dad, and we talked about how we are all scared sometimes. Something else special about this book is the illustrations. One page shows what it looks like from the top of the diving board from Jabari’s perspective — they learned that big word “perspective” and noticed different people’s perspectives throughout the book. Attached to my weekly email is a PDF of fun family events happening over the next few weeks. There is also the Montpelier Food Festival happening this weekend. While it is not a specific child event, it does seem like there will be something for everyone! Ask Your Child: Tell me your favorite thing to do on the playground. Why do you like it? Thanks, Deanna Hi Preschool Families! Announcements:
What a fun week! The Monday/Tuesday class had an awesome first two days of school. They are a lovely little group. The four of them had a lot of fun exploring the classroom together and learning about one another. On the playground this week, the Mon/Tues class found a cecropia caterpillar! I had never seen or heard of one before — they are huge! They watched it crawl on our playground and climb up a tree. There is a photo of just the caterpillar in the slideshow at the bottom of the blog. Both classes enjoyed hearing Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes. This is a fantastic story for retelling. After reading it, we listened to the author, Eric Litwin, read it to us as well. Later, they finger painted 4 shoes to retell the story: one red for the strawberries he stepped in, one blue fir the blueberries, one brown for the mud, and one white for stepping in water and washing all the colors away. They loved it! Another fun activity each class did this week was something called “Me and My Preschool Friends”. I printed out a class set of pictures for each child, cut out for the 3 year old group, and uncut for the 4 year old group. After they were cut, they glued them onto a sheet of paper. They loved seeing each other in the pictures and this activity assisted in learning all the names in the classes. The Wed/Thurs class enjoyed another week of collecting apples on the playground! They filled them up in trucks and buckets. The Mon/Tues class also loved loading the apples into trucks. Our caterpillars are starting to get pretty big. Thank you for bringing in some milkweed! They have all been very interested in watching them and sharing the knowledge they know about caterpillars. Ask Your Child: Mon/Tues: Did you do any painting this week? How (on the easel, at the table with a big piece of paper, using dot markers) Wed/Thurs: Did you go to the gym on Thursday? What games did you play? Have a great weekend, Deanna |
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June 2023
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