This week we are practicing exploratory orienting (just like a curious cat looking for her bowl of milk). In keeping with this theme, we have cat, cloud and car activities…all of these are easy jump off points for exploratory orienting. Read more in the Coping Skill section below.
Our Story Time book for the week is Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes. We have our own preschool copy but it is also available at our local library…in English and Spanish..La Primera Luna Llena de Gatita.
On Tuesday we honored three of our four Golden Letter friends! This included an exploration of the C+H chunk sound and the hard C sound. When we honor our Golden Letter friends, we are simply clapping and cheering in recognition of their given names. Plus they take home their every-year-they-are-a-little-different Golden Letters made by me. Read on to find out more about Tuesday and enjoy the video snippets of us busy at play.
Here are 3 questions to learn more about our day:
What kept falling in the water?
The plastic cats! Just like in our Story Time book, our cats fell in the water.
Thank you to those who have donated to our Preschool Fund: we have a new water table with easily removable tubs.
What did you eat for snack today?
Note: I am adjusting our routine in hopes of having a less hurried experience with Snack Time. As soon as all children arrive we will gather to eat right away! So if children say we ate early today, I agree!
In the morning we had snack from a Golden Letter friend, Charlie: cantaloupe, Cheetos and chocolate chip cookies. 6 C words!
In the afternoon we had snack from a Golden Letter friend, Cade: cuties, cheese sticks and chocolate chip cookies! Another 6 C word snack!
What did you use to make a cloud?
Cotton balls! There was the option to leave them as round balls or to unroll them or to pull them apart.
We are keeping track of the number of clouds we see during Outside Time as well. This is a prime example of encouraging exploratory orienting-a relaxed gazing at the sky.
Exploratory orienting: This week’s Coping Skill
This week we are practicing exploratory orienting (just like a curious cat looking for her bowl of milk and finding the moon, little bugs, trees and her own porch). In keeping with this theme, we have cat, cloud and car activities…all of these are easy jump off points for exploratory orienting. Read more in the Coping Skill section below. This is described as relaxed alertness to both internal and external environment, curiosity and gathering information about the environment with a low level of activation.
Practice together at home:
Sit together inside and notice things on the walls around you.
When riding in a car, rest your head and notice other cars, trees, grass, buildings passing by.
In bed at night, look from one corner of the wall and ceiling to the other, to the next and the next.
When walking outside switch between looking in front of you, behind you, next to you on both sides, over you. Is there a sidewalk? Trees? Houses? Sun beams? Shadows?
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