The first week of school!

I hope that your kids had a great first week of school........I know I did!!  I am so lucky to have the best job ever, and your children are what make it great! 
The theme for this week was "All About Me!"  We introduced ourselves and told everyone something special about us and, in return, learned a lot about each other.  Children are so easily satisfied, and one of the things they love most is to be asked something about themself, and then have someone really listen to what they have to say.  We made an "About Me" book that the children loved making!  We also learned the rules and learned about team work.

These team walkers were a hit for the kids.  They loved trying to see how far they could get, and working as a team to get there. 

The next preschool day we continued to learn about ourselves, and also talked about the letter "A".  Here are the centers we did today:

For our writing center, we looked for our name posted on the wall, and practiced writing it with dry erase markers.

For dramatic play, we played blocks this week.  This does more than you think for your kids, including hand-eye coordination, socializing skills, and imagination building!

Our math center this week was simply stringing lace boards.  Here we are working on dexterity,  more hand-eye coordination skills, and counting.

For arts and crafts we played with playdough!  They made playdough "snakes" and traced both upper case and lower case A's helping with letter recognition.

And our reading center was a bean bag toss to hit the letter A. 

We also made alien puppets.  The kids couldn't wait to walk out with their puppets and make all the parents say "AAAHH"  just like the letter A says. 
We also celebrated all of the August birthdays and a couple of September birthdays and sang a big Happy Birthday to NJ, Cy, Alex, Easton, and Aydon!

Thanks for all your support as parents!  I was so impressed that all the children so willingly came to preschool on the first day and were ready to learn.  I did not have one child cry!  Because of your excitement and preparation, your kids came right in and were so anxious to start!