Here are some questions you can ask your preschooler about our day:
What did Zach the Zebra set free in one of our books?
What was your made up animal name?
What was hiding behind your zipper on your zipper board?
What was “Black Couch Time” today?
Thursday: Z is for Zebra
SURPRISE WORK: With Mother’s Day coming, there is a surprise table that children will be working at this week…no photos or stories about this! Some of these will be in backpacks and some will be presented to you at graduation on Sunday.
NOTE ON SECRETS AND SURPRISES: I will never ask your child to keep a secret from you. In fact, I didn’t even ask them to keep this a surprise from you. They can tell you all they want about this project and you will still be surprised when you get it. I encourage you to remind your children regularly that no one should ask them to keep a secret from their parents and if they do, they can tell you that too!
ANIMAL NAMES: Just like the characters in Miss Bindergarten books, we gave our name to an animal! The first sound of our name has to match the first sound in the animal name, just like the book. We went in alphabetical order backwards so our Golden Letter friend, Zander, got to get his paper first….and he matched Zach Zebra in our book!
STORY TIME: We followed some characters through four Miss Bindergarten books all by Joseph Slate: where she gets ready for Kindergarten, where they have a wild day in Kindergarten, where she stays home sick from Kindergarten and the last day of Kindergarten. The Z friend, Zach the Zebra was the one who got to let the butterflies free!
ZIPPER BOARDS: We all had a zipper board to take home after adding more black tape and finding our names hidden behind the zippers! The zipper boards are actually clip boards, so there was some writing and drawing going on too!
Remember: the simple act of zippering a coat requires bilateral coordination, finger isolation, open thumb web space, separation of the two sides of the hand (on BOTH hands), motor planning, pinch strength, eye-hand coordination, pincer grasp, and tripod grasp (most often of the non-dominant hand). No wonder it takes a while!
COPING SKILL OF THE WEEK: Zip it up. We bring in a little movement and stillness with this week’s Coping Skill: we start by wiggling our bodies then pretend to zip it up from our toes to our neck…just like a onesie or footie pajamas!
HERE ARE MORE PICTURES OF OUR DAY:
THE LAST DAY OF THE 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR IS MAY 21
Next Thursday is our last Thursday of the school year! So today we took a class picture on the black couch (calling it “Black Couch Time” on the Schedule Board). Children will get their own copy next week. Here’s a sneak peek at the sessions:
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