Chebeague Pre-K News - February 8, 2008
Tuesday the children were learning first hand about dairy products and fats. They shook their whipping cream into butter with Sally’s encouragement. We spread the butter onto crackers at snack time. Tuesday Sam helped out with sandpaper letters and then Jenny joined us to travel to the Island Commons where we shared some songs and dance and played Go Fish with the residents. Thursday’s snow kept us all home but we still managed to learn enough about China do some New Year celebrating on Friday. Jenny joined us again to help out again with our Chinese lantern craft and dragon dance.
New works presented at circle:
Language
o The letter sound “k”
o Sequencing work – melting snowman
o Turtle in a box poem
o Matching photos of the Commons residents
o Fortune cookie matching – images of China
Practical Life /Art
o Stirring sand a chop stick
o Twisting – nuts and bolts
o Nutrition – milk and oil groups
o Protein puzzle
Math
o No new works
Science
o Reptile – parts of- 3 part matching
o Reptile book making – parts of
Art
o Turtle in a box story illustrating
History
o Chinese New Year celebration
Cultural/Peace
o More about Asia
o Matching faces of Asian people
o No peace circle due to snow day
Music and movement
o We shared the Music, Music, Music song and dance with our friends at the Commons.
o We continue listening to Bach at lunch
*Next week our new letter sound will be “w”.
Calendar updates:
Feb 18-22 No school - Winter break
Requests and Comments:
o Scholastic book orders should be returned on Monday, February 11. Any questions should be directed to May Hall.
o Because of the snow day we will be doing the lesson with your child’s personal map next week. If you have not already done so please return it in your child’s folder on Monday.
reptile work with the moveable alphabet
Thank you for sharing your children. Miss Nancy