Another short, action-packed week here at the SES Preschool!
We continued to practice greeting each other at meeting with either a high-five or hand shake, using our words and making eye contact. For calendar jobs we looked at the weather and counted our February calendar as a class. Both the AM and PM are getting to be quite the singers! We sang our "Days of the Week" and "I'm a Little Penguin" songs and also learned a new song about friendship in honor of Valentine's Day. It goes like this:
Make new friends
But keep the old
One is silver and the other is gold
A circle is round, it has no end
That's how long I will be your friend
We'll definitely be adding this to our repertoire and singing it more after February vacation! It was a good opportunity to learn two more words in sign language, too. "Friends" is signed by linking your two pointer fingers and "make" is signed like you're squeezing out a dish towel vertically.
We took advantage of an empty gym to run around on Monday and play syllable "Duck Duck Goose," a Preschool favorite! The kids also got to meet "Mr. Munch," our in-class letter-eating monster. Each student gets a foam upper-case letter and when their letter is called they feed it to Mr. Munch.
"I have a hungry friend
His name is Mr. Munch
And what he likes to do all day
Is gobble up his lunch
He likes the letter ______
And things that start with ________
And when he gets a letter
He eats it munch munch munch
CRUNCH!"
Puppet Show was introduced as a new Choice time center and this was hugely popular. It was really fun to see the kids using their imaginations and playing with friends who they
don't normally spend time with.
Knowing that the Thursday snow storm would probably change our Valentine's/Friendship Celebration in Preschool, we celebrated a little early on Wednesday by making heart shaped melon treats with cookie cutters and going all out with glitter and glue for our Valentine's mailboxes. We'll celebrate some more the Monday after vacation!
Have a fabulous February Vacation and see you Monday the 24th!
-Miss Kate and Miss Amanda
