FOCUS QUESTION

Our focus question this week was what do pets eat? Here are our answers:

Lucca - “dogs eat dog food”

Kutter - “cats eat cat food”

Tobias - “fish eat fish food”

Alexa - “horses eat hay”

We thought it would be fun to see the difference between wet versus dry dog food, and cat food versus dog food. They were able to touch, examine and smell the food.

STATION DAY

Jumping with feet together and apart helps to develop leg strength and balance. It requires coordination of upper and lower extremity movements. Jumping is a building block for more complex movements, specialized skills, and general physical activity.

SHOW & TELL

Show & Tell helps to build effective communication and listening skills that are essential for a young child’s learning. It also encourages emotional development in a child, as he or she shares their interests, home lives and joys with peers.

The goal behind an All About Me week is to help children learn about each other and each others’ families.  It helps children to realize that every person is unique and special.   They also learn that every child’s thoughts and ideas are important and no one person is more or less important than another.  

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.  

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!

What a wonderful talent show!  We realize that any good performance takes time and a great amount of effort and flexibility.  Rest assured that this has not been wasted time, rather time well spent.  This is how St. James stands out from all the rest.  Some of our curriculum objectives that your child has learned through this experience are:  following limits and expectations, traveling skills, gross-motor skills, speaking clearly, following directions, attends and engages, and persists.  

They also gain a tremendous amount of self-confidence and self-control.  It’s not easy at the age of 4 and 5 to perform in front of an audience.  We think these children did a remarkable job. 

All of this would not have been possible without help from our parents, Mrs. Denise and her middle school helpers, and Coach Nicole.  A big thank you to all of these special people.