Beginning of School

We are off to a great start! This class is making friends and having a blast! The first few weeks of school we talk about our names, emotions, and rules at school. I love the way our Creative Curriculum brings nursery rhymes into the classroom during our first unit. The benefits of nursery rhymes in preschool are endless, below I have listed just a few.

1. Cognitive Development - The repetition of rhymes and stories helps with memory skills.

2. Speech Development - Language acquisition and speech development are improved , as the children repeat the rhymes the mouth and tongue muscles are developed.

3. Reading skills - The knowledge of nursery rhymes provide a excellent foundation for later literary works, they are a great introduction to stories as many contain a beginning, middle and end (sequencing)

4. Language skills - Rhymes help increase vocabulary, and introduce your child to poetry.

5. Math skills - Rhymes are full of patterns, numbers, and counting.

I used dramatic play as the children pretended to be Little Miss Muffet , Humpty Dumpty and Mary and her little lamb. Listed below are a couple of reasons why dramatic play is important.

1. Dramatic play builds comprehension skills by allowing children to act out familiar rhymes and stories.

2. Social skills are improved as children take turns and work together.

The highlight of our week was meeting Mary and her little lamb. We could not let Mary and her lamb in our classroom because it was against the rules to have a lamb at school. The children were thrilled to meet her and she let us pet her lamb. We were sad to see her leave, but we must follow the rules.

The next few weeks we will discuss when things happen at school, and people that work at our school. Learning is fun!