Balancing, Gross/Fine motor & sensory

We had so much fun walking up and down the balancing beams practicing our gross motor skills!

Our friends also got to explore our sensory bins with their senses (touching, seeing, feeling, & smelling) 🤗

We also worked on our fine motor skills with beading and matching different shapes and objects.

Firefighters come to visit!

Having the firefighters visit the preschool was such a treat and a great introduction to Fall. The kids had a blast learning fun facts (e.g., firefighters won’t go into a burning building to save pets) and answering some questions (e.g., what 3 numbers do you dial to reach firefighters?) about firefighting. 

The kids get an up close look (& feel) at a real firefighter in his protective garb!
Room 1 gets to feel & hold a fire hose full of water.

The firefighters allowed each and every student to try out the fire house!

On Friday, the firefighters picked a teacher volunteer to try on the fire suit. That’s Ms. Silvia above. (The kids learned that firefighters have to put on their suit in one minute or less.) 

Thank you Pasadena Fire Department!

SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER

Green, red and yellow Apple printing
Discovering and Sorting apples
Following assorted lines
Easel painting, magma tiles and getting to know you album
Using fine motor skills to retrieve apple shapes from the maze. How many apple can you count on the characters.
Apple charting after tasting our scrumptious, crispy apples

Using our five senses, taste, smell, touch, hear, and sight with all different kinds of apples.

Dixie cups, journals, and scissors!

Today’s small groups were a mix of gross and fine motor activity, what with using scissors to cut along dotted lines, free drawing, and building Dixie towers and fortresses, the kids had loads of fun stacking, cutting, and doodling. 

Pink Unicorns pool their resources (Dixie Cups) to build taller, more elaborate towers.
Purple Dragons drawing in their personal journals anything that starts with the letter C or otherwise.
Pink Unicorns using scissors (and their fine motor skills) to cut along the dotted line for Math & Cognition.
Turquoise Butterflies work together to build a fortress.

This week’s activity consists of . . .  with the following teachers leading each section . . .

Journals: “Letter C” & Bible: “Joseph Forgives” – Ms. Kira, Turquoise Butterflies

Lang. & Lit.: “Stacking Cups” & H.E.A: Activity pgs. 1 & 2 – Ms. Alyisa, Pink Unicorns

Ms. Ray: Math & Cog.: “Cutting and Counting Line” & Fine Motor: “Color Mixing w/ Eyedropper” – Ms. Ray, Purple Dragons

Hispanic Heritage Month

In room 3 we celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month! We read  “Diez Cerdos Hambrientos” and “Chicks and Salsa. ”These books are fun and engaging that introduce kids to Hispanic culture through language, food, and humor.

We got to celebrate and have a fiesta with chips and salsa—and of course, plenty of quackamole, what the ducks in the story adorably called guacamole!

and we finished our fiestas by having a dance party to a variety of latino culture music.

Making waffles!

Last Friday, we had a delicious treat—making our very own waffles! The kiddos loved scooping, pouring, and stirring the batter, and of course, the best part was enjoying the warm, fluffy waffles together. Yummy!

5 Senses in Room 5

We have been exploring apples with all five of our senses—tasting their sweetness and tartness, noticing the different parts of the apple, smelling their fresh scent, feeling their smooth skin, and hearing the crunch when we take a bite.