Nature walk

To answer our focus question this week, "What are the characteristics of the trees in our community?", we went on a nature walk. We talked about all the evergreen and deciduous trees on our campus. Along the way, the children collected leaves, pinecones, and sticks.

Sorting and CLASSIFYING

The children practiced sorting and classifying skills with all the things they collected from our nature walk. We made a pile for things from an evergreen tree and one for deciduous.

tree poems

Some of my favorite poems in our curriculum are apart of the tree unit. The first one we went over was "The Green Grass Grows". This song is a great way for children to learn about parts of a tree. The second poem the children learned was "A Tree My Size". This poem is a great way for children to learn the concept of size and width.

A Tree My Size:

This tree is wide

This tree is tall

This tree is thin

This tree is small

Beautiful trees

I see with my eyes

But the one I like best

Is exactly my size

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.