Wow, what a busy day in preschool! Our Monday started with Library time with Mrs. Kidder. She read us a book about the alphabet. I was impressed with how many letters children were able to recognize! This week, Mrs. Kidder has asked that we keep our Library books in our classroom. There are many families who seem to be feeling as busy as I do and their library books didn't make it back to school this week.

I'm working on getting a spot for each child to save work, and store books (I think I'll hit up the dollar store for some little baskets!)

Onward! We talked so much about our alphabet today! On Friday, teachers worked to put together our new word wall. We'll start small (with only our names, and a few words to familar songs) but hopefully by the end of the year, we'll have many words (and pictures) on our word wall.

In groups today, children tried tasting pumpkin seeds from our pumpkins Thursday and made a graph to represent our likes and dislikes. We also constructed a Mat Man! Mat man is part of the Handwriting Without Tears program and starts our thinking about the lines and curves that make up letters! Preschool friends really enjoyed singing the song that helps us put Mat Man together. If your child didn't count pumpkin seeds today, they will tomorrow. Same goes for Mat Man fun.

Ooooey, goooooey, PUMPKIN mush is currently on display on top of our sensory table! Our preschool scientists are investigating what our pumpkin mush will look like over time. We scooped out all of the pumpkin seeds and mush on Thursday, now it's time to investigate! Some guesses were that it would become liquid and it would disappear. My guess is that I will be happy it's in a disposable bag!

Another fun day in Pre-K! You can look for another update in a couple of days.

Tomorrow we have P.E - sneakers please!

-Mrs. Reid