Here are some questions you can ask your preschooler about our day:
Who acted like the teacher today?
What color did the play dough and Tiny Things turn today?
How did your flowers stay up on the Snack Table?
In our book, how did they plant a garden if they didn’t have a yard?
When she was a little girl, what did Ms Kristin look at as she fell asleep?
Thursday: Happy May Day
MAY DAY: In honor of May Day, we made straw flowers that all had a yellow center. Maybe you’ll be the recipient of a May Day surprise! Since it’s the first day of May, all of the purple things turned blue: the play dough, play dough tools and all the Tiny Things too! We used our old purple play dough as holders for our May Day flowers.
Y WHY JOKE: At Circle Time we played the Y/Why joke game with our Alphabet Friend Yolanda! She acted like the teacher (and even put on a teacher name tag holder) and showed the letter Y and asks what letter it was. When the children called out, “Y” Yolanda pretended they said, “Why” so she said something like, “Because I want to know. Will you please tell me what letter this is?” and then we repeated it many times.
STORY TIME: We read Flower Garden and connected May Day with the work of Garret Morgan, the man who invented the yellow traffic light!
In Flower Garden, a family plants a garden in a window box even though they live in an apartment in the middle of a city. We looked in our journals to find the picture of Mr Morgan AND a yellow traffic light, just like in our book!
During Story Time Ms Kristin remembered that when she was a little girl living on the south side of Chicago, she would watch a traffic light change from red to green to yellow to red to green to yellow as she fell asleep.
In the book it was the mother’s birthday. Our morning class had a connection because it was Ms Emily’s birthday! We celebrated with a balloon, a card, treats that her own mom made us, and we guessed how old she turned today. Happy Birthday, dear Ms Emily! Thank you for coming to preschool on your birthday!
COPING SKILL OF THE WEEK: Pause. Just like the yellow of a traffic light, we can slow down and pause. Even young children can sense a safety and connection to self by resting with a hand on their belly and a hand on their heart. We did it again today and it was quiet for quite a while, just resting together.
HERE ARE MORE PICTURES OF OUR DAY:
P.S. We have 16 friends graduating to Kindergarten so we’re spending time practicing opening a variety of bags and containers at Snack Time! Here you can see friends giving advice on different techniques.
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