Reflections on Adora's TED talk...

Wow, what an amazing kid she is.

The one thing that really stuck with me is the thought that kids and teachers should continually be learning from each other. I think sometimes as teachers we forget that we are also learners. 

This school year I am going to focus on really listening to my kids ideas. Most 4 yr olds have an incredible imagination and think anything is possible. I'm not going to be as quick to dismiss their suggestions and really take the time to think, is this possible and how can we accomplish it?

February 24-28

This week we celebrated Dr. Seuss. We read many books written by Dr. Seuss, our class favorite is "Green Eggs and Ham."

Dr. Seuss uses lots of rhyming words in his books. We reviewed rhyming and practiced our rhyming skills through many different activities. We read "There's a wocket in my pocket" and created our own wocket characters.

We also made cat in the hat hats, had crazy sock day, and made a special cat in the hat snack.

We had a fun week of learning about Dr. Seuss!

February 7-14

We are working hard to learn all of our letters and sounds. Our letter this week was Q. We have also started learning sight words. This week we partner read the book, " I like school."

We also had parent teacher conferences this week. It was so nice to get to visit with the parents and show them what their children have been learning.

We finished the week by celebrating Valentine's Day. We exchanged Valentines, had singing valentine's come to our classroom, and had a party complete with ice cream sundaes. It was a fun day! 

January 27-31

We had another great week in Pre-K.

Our letter this week was letter O and our sight word was "like".

We partner read the book, "I Like Animals."

We love learning to read!

We also celebrated the 100th day of school.

Our class is 100 days smarter! 

We celebrated by making 100 day crowns and shirts.

We counted 100 Fruit Loops and made a necklace.

We have had so much fun learning this past 100 days!

January 20-24

Last week was Nursery Rhyme week in pre-k.

Throughout the week we learned many Nursery Rhymes. Nursery Rhymes are so important for children learning to read. Some of our class favorites are Hickory Dickory Dock, Mary had a Little Lamb, and Humpty Dumpty.

Our letter of the week was N. N is for nest.

During literacy centers we practiced rebelling stories with QR codes.

We had a very fun week in Pre-K.

January 13-17

After a nice Christmas Break, we are back in the swing of things in Pre-K.

In literacy centers this week we are practicing our letter recognition.

On Tuesday we got to go to the Stephen Fite concert. The theme of the concert was "Knowledge is your Super Power." We dressed up as super heros and headed to the concert. We had a great time!

We had a wonderful week!