Author of the Month--Donald Crews

Our first Author of the Month is Donald Crews.  We will do different activities with many of his books.  So far, we have read School Bus and Sail Away.  Today we read Sail Away and used the pictures as clues to help us understand the unfamiliar words in the story.  And, since it's Fun Friday, we made our own sailboats using different foods!  The girls loved it and were the envy of the other classes at recess as they made their way outside with their prized creations.

Welcome to Pre-First!

We are 9 days into our school year and already we are having so much fun!  We have such an exciting school year ahead of us and wanted to share our accomplishments with you. Come back and check our blog as often as you can--we look forward to seeing you all soon!

On the first day of school, we read First Day Jitters .  Here are the girls drinking away their jitters with our special Jitter Juice!

Back to School video

Here is the video from Back to School night.  Enjoy!

Plant journals

After an exciting unit on seeds, your daughters will finally be bringing home their plant journals.  The girls did a great job of documenting the growth of their sunflowers over the past few weeks.  Included in the packet are some additional pages on how and why seeds grow.  They should be very proud of themselves and the hard work of nurturing a plant!

Telling time

We started our mini-unit on time today.  We discussed the difference between analog and digital clocks and read a great story, Telling the Time, as a wonderful introduction to the basics of telling time.  The girls were given a challenge to find an analog and digital clock in their house.  We are very interested to see what they find!

Fishing for Inches

The girls all went fishing today without getting wet!  The girls had to fish for different sea animals that were all different lengths.  Once they caught their fish, they had to take their "catch" back to their desks and measure it in inches, marshmallows and unifix cubes.

Last poet of Pre-First

We had our last poet present today!  This has been such a great unit and the girls have really enjoyed reading all different kinds of poetry.