Monkeyin’ Around in Pre-K!

Our last full week of school was filled with new learning about Space! The kids used their imaginations to become astronauts blasting off to Space in the dramatic play area during free choice. It is exciting to see their entertaining, creative personalities shine.

Here is a look at our week:

Morning Meeting

We explored Space and focused on the Moon and planets through picture books and videos on BrainpopJr. Also, the Magic School Bus has a great episode about the students traveling to space and exploring the moon rocks and Saturn.

Centers

In language arts we switched gears to finish our caterpillar journals. It was exciting to see all of the chrysalis hatch to butterflies in the classroom! I know the kids enjoyed coming in each day to see if there were more butterflies. In the journals, the children observed the butterflies and drew a picture based of these observations. Some students were challenged to write a word or sentence to match the picture. In math the kids had a board with numbers on different rocket ships. They read the number and counted unifix cubes to build a ‘rocket ship’. In the fine motor center, the children made planets out of play dough. The independent center was IPads.

Small groups

In reading groups the kids used shaving cream to write their names, letters, and spell new popcorn words. In art they created their own planets with finger paint. They did a nice job describing their picture and came up with creative stories. In journals the prompt was, ‘If I went to Space I would bring..’