Love Rocks party!

Our classroom is all about treating others with love and respect.  Students are given opportunities throughout the day to fill our "Love Rocks." jar with a rock when they are caught being kind or helpful to someone else.  The students filled the Love Rocks jar by the last week of Halloween, so we had a celebration!  We dressed up in our costumes and played games. 

We continue to work hard treating others with respect so we can fill the jar again!



Love rocks!  We filled the Love Rock jar for a party!

Pre-K Math with Goldfish Crackers

The Chadron preschool studied the ocean and fish this past week. Students worked on math skills by sorting, graphing, counting, and patterning rainbow goldfish crackers.

 

Hunter and Jaydea count their goldfish crackers and determine who has more.

Making patterns with rainbow colored goldfish crackers.

Ava works on her patterns.

Goldfish cracker math is so much fun!

Learning About Our Community

This past we week the preschool has been studying community helpers.  We learned who some of our community helpers are and where to find certain places, such as the fire station, police station, hospital, etc. in our community.  At the end of the week, we wrote letters to our families, stamped them, and took a field trip to the post office to deliver them.  The postal workers were very kind and gave us a tour of the post office.  We saw so many different community helpers, vehicles, and buildings on our walk to the post office!

Dressing up as a construction worker

Counting blocks to make a community building

Writing letters to put in the mail

Trip to the Post Office

A postal worker stamps our letters

Mailing our letters

Tour of the post office



Celebrating 50 years of Head Start

Last week was the 50th anniversary for the Head Start program.  Our class celebrated our collaboration with Head Start by wearing our red, white and blue.

 



Preschool Pride...Chadron 3 Collaboration-Working together to help children succeed!

Welcome to the 2014-2015 School Year

1st Day of Preschool

We are ready for a new year of exciting learning experiences and preparing for kindergarten. We kicked off our first week learning about classroom rules and expectations.  We read a story about Pete the Cat who was rocking in his school shoes.  We took pictures of our own school shoes and put together a classroom book of the class "rocking in their school shoes."  We learned about bus safety rules and are ready to ride the school bus next week!

Learning About Weather and Plants

In the last month at the preschool, we have been learning about weather, worms and gardens.

After investigating and observing worms all week, we took a trip to the park to release the worms

Will the wind blow it?  We blew air through straws to see if air would blow different objects.  Afterwards, we recorded our answers on a chart.

Exploring how tornadoes start

Making a rainstorm with water, shaving cream and blue food coloring

A "sunny" snack

What will grow from these seeds?

We experimented with beans in a bag and planted our own beans to watch grow

Planting seeds and learning about a plant's life cycle

We can eat a whole plant!

Voting on our favorite flower.  The class favorites are roses and tulips!

Reading and Breakfast With Dad

We want to thank all of the dads, grandpas, (and moms!) who joined us for reading and breakfast with Dad at the preschool. 

 

Preschool Valentines Crafts and Snacks with Mom

Thank you to all the moms (and dads!) who came to the preschool last week to make valentine crafts with the class and have snack.

Making a valentine tree handprint

Making butterflies

Making valentine bears

Making valentine bumble bees

Winter Wonderland

This month we have been learning about winter, snow, and arctic animals

MATH ACTIVITIES

Working on counting, quantifying and recognizing numerals by placing the correct number of snowflakes on the playdough mats

We've been working on measuring.  We made a class book measuring how many mittens long we are and then using rulers and tape measures to see how many inches we are.

We also discovered that an emperor penguin is 4 feet tall.  We measured to see if we were taller than an emperor penguin and then how many baby penguin chicks we were.

 

Counting the parts of a snowman and enjoying a yummy snowman snack made of fruit and pretzels

 

LITERACY ACTIVITIES

Writing "yes" or "no" predictions to the questions about penguins

We were surprised to learn that penguins use their wings for swimming!

 

We made snowmen and wrote our names

Being authors and illustrators!  The class wrote and illustrated a snowman story together.

SCIENCE ACTIVITIES

Discovering how arctic animals survive in icy cold temperatures

Experimenting with ice and salt at the science center

ART ACTIVITIES

Penguin paintings

A fun penguin craft and writing facts we learned about penguins!