WELCOME BACK!
Reading Opportunities
Reading with 4th Graders! Ms. Cole and her 4th-grade class have offered to read to our class during library time. We are so grateful for this opportunity and are excited to see them every Wednesday this year.
Chester Hunt!
This week was all about Chester the Raccoon and The Kissing Hand! We learned it's ok to be scared and nervous, and no matter what, our mom's & dad's love is always with us! The kids have all enjoyed reading your notes, and we even made "Our Class Kissing Hand Book" which includes your notes and hand prints. Now, throughout the year, if they get sad they can go to our library center and find their notes from you. Finally, we had a CHESTER HUNT with both Pre-K classes! And oh my, did the kids love this! We had a special delivery of clues that led us all around campus and when we returned to our class, Chester had left us a special surprise. Please enjoy the video of our hunt today!
We had so much fun this week and all the kids did so good presenting their items they brought from home. All About Me week is to help children learn about each other and each others’ families. We talked about how special each us of are and what makes us unique.
P.E.
We are fortunate at St. James to be able to attend P.E. every day. Thursdays are station days where a different skill will be taught and practiced. This week they worked on galloping and tossing an object into a hula hoop.
Let's Measure!
HOW MANY BLOCKS....
In preschool we introduce units of measurement that children can really wrap their minds around. Usually those are with regular household objects and toys. In these activities children delve in deeper to understand measurement of length and height with blocks and cubes!
How many blocks will my shoe be?
This was a great activity that involved estimating and measuring. I traced everyone's foot on a piece of paper then asked each child how many blocks they thought it would take to go from the bottom of their shoe to the top and wrote down their answers on the whiteboard.
