Mrs. Kotkin's Preschool 2018

So thankful for warmer weather! Monday-We read our K book, made K azoos and talked about vibration and sound waves, released our 4 butterflies for Earth Day Celebration(one is still a caterpillar),  and had  k ite counting math.  Wednesday-We made things with our yellow playdough, counted seeds and learned about different sizes of seed and what seeds need in order to grow into plants, we planted vegetable seeds and will be observing their growth, went in the MPR for recess and read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. Friday-We learned about k eyboards and how to type our names on them, read the book Tops and Bottoms teaching us about vegetables that grow underground and above the ground, looked at k aleidoscopes and talked about mirrors, planted flowers on our playground and finally finished our Mom's Day surprise. Upcoming events... May 4-Kentucky Derby in P.E. May 11-No A.M. class but arrive at 1:00pm for Mom's Day and ends  at  2:30pm Have a wonderful weekend! L

What a great busy week! Monday-We started with tracing the oval shape and writing our names.  The kids are getting super good at writing their names! I'm so proud of them!  We had P.E. and Music and recess.  We also practiced our H with "H"andwriting Without Tears, learned a tap song with the H wooden sticks, learned the "H"okey Pokey, learned our left and our right hands, read our H Book and talked about different vs. same with the "h"orse worksheet. Wednesday-We cut out horses and put them in order from smallest to largest, used our syllables to clap our first and last names, talked about long words and short words, read If You Give a Pig a Pancake , played "H"ungry "H"ungry "H"ippo and "H"i "H'o Cherry-O. We also got to see the Kindergartners practice for their upcoming performance in the "H"igh School.  Friday-We played in our "h"ospital, practiced writing out letter H, lear

Spring is finally here!  Monday-We talked about the Life Cycle of a Frog, read the letter T book, used paint dotters to count to the number 8, and did sequencing work as well as patterns. Wednesday-We made self portraits, learned a  raindrop song, had reading buddies, learned how to write our letter T and made a special Mother's Day surprise.  We also played the- "I Have"- alphabet game.  Ms. Blasi was in the classroom for 30 minutes this morning so I could leave and visit the Pre-K classrooms to observe what the kiddos will be doing next year.   :) Friday-We made frog headbands, practiced writing our names, learned about our letter X, finished the Mother's Day surprise,  read the letter X book, read-  If You Give a Dog a Donut &  cut out the matching game.  The kids were super excited to take the game home and play with their siblings and parents.  :) Have a wonderful cold weekend. Our letter next week will be H. Upcoming events... Mom's Day

Still wishing for warm weather!!! Monday-We introduced our "S"ushi "S"hop, played with "S"lime, read the S book, introduced Handwriting Without Tears letter S, painted umbrellas and learned some new vocabulary with our In The Kitchen Literacy Curriculum. Wednesday-We learned about letter S and the formation of the letter, played an ice cream sharing game after we read-   Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems, and    played on the playground (finally). Friday-We celebrated Emory's birthday, talked about Mat Man and placement of our self portraits, had an option of sharing our scales or keeping one color for our Rainbow Fish, read Rainbow Fish and the Z book and worked on letter Z letter formation as well as a petting "Zoo". Mom's Day is coming up and I will let you know the date as soon as I am told. The letters next week are X and T.  Your child can bring show in tell for either letter or both. Have a wonderful weekend!