Art: Imagination

Pre-First explores the theme IMAGINATION in art throughout the year.  They use new materials and learn new techniques to express their ideas about the world - a world where what could be is still as real and compelling as what is.  They explore light and shadows, create stories with imagined imagery, draw dramatic landscapes and and sculpt little worlds.  

Music: Welcome

Hello from Ms. Wilbur and welcome to our Pre- First music class.

We are moving to different rhythms and doing partner activities with our songs. We have a special song that we sing in the beginning of class called Start Every Day With a Song. The girls are singing it enthusiastically!

Sequencing

We have been focusing on sequencing in our classroom.  We started by having the girls arrange themselves in number order.  They could not be stumped!  Ask them how we tried to fool them.  You would be surprised how resourceful they can be without using words.  The girls then worked in pairs to sequence number cards in ascending and descending order.

Author of the Month

The girls were introduced to their first author of the month--Donald Crews!  We gave the girls some background on Mr. Crews and showed them many of his books, including Night at the Fair, Freight Train and Flying.  Their favorite fact was that he called his beloved grandmother "Bigmama"!  We read School Bus and the girls had to describe what they see as they travel to school each day.  They drew these images onto bus windows and are hanging in our classroom!

Last Day!!!!

We want to thank you so much for allowing us to spend this year with your wonderful girls.  They are more than ready for first grade, although we will miss them terribly!  Have a great and safe summer and please stop by for a visit next year!

Shopping trip

Today the girls went shopping...don't worry, we didn't take them to Harbor East--they went shopping at McMahon and Fenwick's Dollar Store!  As a fun culminating project, we gave the girls 4 quarters to shop around our room.  We labeled different items with different prices and your daughters were able to shop the room and count the change.  The girls had a blast and we enjoyed getting rid of the small items in our prize box :-)

Last Week of School

We cannot believe that this is our last week of school!  The girls are working hard on our Junie B. Jones book study and enjoying our final math unit on money.  Muffy and I wanted to thank you for our wooden frames with the picture of our class at the Aquarium.  We had so much fun on our field trip and these frames are a wonderful way to remember your girls and the great times we had together.

Here are the girls playing Race to a Quarter, they loved it!

 

Our room moms, Tracy Godey and Leslie Henry, stopped by our room this morning for a special treat.  The girls decorated flower petals listing all of the amazing things they helped with this year, and we presented them with orchids for all of their hard work.  Thank you so much, Leslie and Tracy!!!!!!