Red riding hood

We had a blast with a great book from the clothing unit! A special thank you to Mrs Lisa Norton for acting as grandmother and to Luna Harris for playing the part of Red Riding Hood. Mrs. Lisa is retired from St. James and Luna is a student at St.James. This dramatic presentation helped your child with language skills, vocabulary, comprehension and expression.

Where do we get our clothes?

Our focus question of the week was, "Where do we get our clothes"? We set up a clothing shop in our home living center and the children got to act out buying costumes.

Goldilocks and the three bears

We were amazed to see Goldilocks on our playground! She helped us learn the concept of large, medium and small. Goldilocks told us that she was sorry about eating baby bear's porridge and breaking his chair. The students learned an important lesson in manners this week. A special thank you to Kerrigan Irvan for giving us a WOW moment!

Play laundromat and Soap EXPERIMENT

The students had to guess what soap would make the most bubbles. We used liquid, bar and power soap for our experiment. The children determined the liquid soap created the most bubbles. We used tally marks to count and keep track of our information. We also set up a pretend laundromat and worked on fine motor skills with the clothesline.

Fall Centers

With Fall finally here, the children helped me put fall decorations in our sensory bin and they have been enjoying making their own play-doh pumpkin.

The Gingerbread Man

This week our focus question was, “How can we work together and be part of a group?” The Gingerbread Man ran around campus and left us clues on how to find him. We all worked together and eventually found him back in our classroom. He had turned back into a cookie and everyone got to try a piece of him! This activity was a fun way to wrap up our nursery rhyme unit and helps children learn to follow directions.

peeny butter fudge

Our focus question this week was,” When do things happen at school?” We used our visual schedule to see what happens during the day and even took some time to plan activities together. Routines are very important at this age and their inquiring minds enjoy discussing what we are doing next. One of the activities on our schedule is story time. The story for the day was Peeny Butter Fudge. In this book, when Mama leaves the kids with Nana, she also leaves a schedule and menu for the day on the fridge. But, when the door closes, all sorts of fun breaks loose. Then, Mom comes home, sees the house is a big mess and is temporarily annoyed until she sees that they've made peanut butter fudge.

We had our schedule planned for the day and who do you think showed up? Our very own Nana!

Nana knows how to take an ordinary day and make it extra special! She brought the recipe and all the ingredients to make peanut butter fudge. We read the recipe and discussed how important it was to follow the directions. If we missed a step, our fudge wouldn’t taste good. Knowledge of print and its uses includes understanding that print carries a message and that print is organized and read in particular ways. Each child was given a step from the recipe and couldn’t wait to help.

Marry Had a little lamb

We had a very special visitor come to our playground this week, Mary and her lamb. Everyone had a blast getting to pet the lamb named Tinkerbell and she truly made the children laugh and play!

We had a very successful first couples of weeks learning new names and building new relationships. During circle time, we are demonstrating phonological awareness by learning the nursery rhymes Humpty Dumpty, The Three Little Kittens, and Little Miss Muffet. Phonological awareness, or phonological sensitivity, is the ability to discern the sounds and patterns of spoken language. Phonological awareness is an important skill in learning to read. Children become phonologically aware through experiences such as reciting poems and nursery rhymes, singing, and clapping the syllables of chanted words.

Humpty Dumpty

The Three Little Kittens

Little Miss Muffet