What a terrific week! We had so much fun learning a new counting game.
It goes like this...
I throw the ball
you throw the ball
how many times before it falls?
then you proceed to throw a ball back and forth while counting. You stop on the number when the ball is dropped.
Also, we did some fun work with our names this week. A.M students covered the letters of their names with little bits of tissue paper and the afternoon students learned a little about alphabetical order! I know... can you believe we are talking about alphabetical order in preschool?!?! Well really we just thought about the alphabet and organized our names according to it! Not so hard and tons of fun looking at our own names! Preschoolers love that. Not to mention, not only are most preschoolers able to recognize their own names but names of friends as well!
We made a book all about salty pretzels too! It was a great review of counting up to 5 and the kids were thrilled that they could read the book themselves.
Lastly, we worked on constructing our very own Alphabet Big Book! Throughout the next couple of weeks, we will be squeezing in a letter here and there. We started with A and B this week. Here's how it works... we all sit together and I give each students a magazine picture. They identify the picture and we work together to decide if the picture belongs on the letter page. For example apples belonged on the "A" page but fish had to wait for the "F" page. We move quickly and keep it fun!
