Exercise Comes to a Close, Tooth Fairy and Valentine Patterns

We read the book Guacamole by Jorge Argueta, and decided that we would make our own!  The children followed the recipe in the book and everyone took turns helping. They tasted it and almost all of them liked the finished product. I love bringing a book to life and activities like this help with their comprehension of books.  Children who engage in frequent activities with books have larger, more literate vocabularies.   

The tooth fairy stopped by for a visit to PreK!! She talked to the children about the importance of taking care of their teeth. She told them they should be brushing twice a day for two minutes and they should limit sweets to once a week. She taught them the importance of flossing and how to properly brush their teeth, and sprinkled everyone with a little fairy dust on her way out. Thank you  to Drs. Glass and Bunch for providing this presentation to our school!

We made Valentine repeating patterns to go in our windows for Grandparents' Day. The children got to choose which type of pattern they wanted to make, e.g., AB or ABC. Guiding children to understand patterns is a foundational skill in mathematics. As they learn to label patterns by having one name stand for something else, they are creating an algebraic representation.

Both PreK classes took a field trip to FwdFit for a yoga lesson. This went along with our focus question and was a great ending to our exercise study. The children had some pretty good yoga moves. A big thank you to Amanda Willis and FwdFit for making this happen for us! Activities like this help with regulating emotion and behaviors. In order to manage emotions and regulate his or her behavior, a child must learn to control impulses, tolerate frustration, cope with strong emotions, follow limits and expectations, and delay gratification. Children have to develop a basic understanding that actions have positive and negative consequences, know what behaviors are acceptable, be aware that they are capable of controlling their behavior, and know they have the power to manage their emotions.

We are moving on to the box study!  Check back at the end of the month to see what we have been doing!