Mrs Oswald's Preschool: August 2020

Morning Work

I made a few new activities for morning work:

A provocation is like an invitation to play. It allows and encourages open ended

play or creating. It helps the children become independent thinkers.

Below is an example:

I put out mirror, cork boards(circle shaped) and a variety of

loose parts. I invited to children to look in the mirrors and then create

something on the cork boards

Another new morning work activity.... roll and cover... a different spin on bingo

this game teaches number recognition and counting. The children roll a die and

then use the gem to cover the number they rolled. They can try to roll until they

make or line or cover the whole board

LINES.... lines are important part of the world. Lines are everywhere and we use lines to form some letters as we start introducing letters... I will show the children what lines make that letter. Here I am just showing different lines and encouraging the children to use rocks or gems to cover the lines...

Caroline really enjoy the roll and cover games (plus this game goes along with our Jesus Time story for this week.... CREATION)

Ella choosing her job, then she joined us at the roll and cover game

Claire choosing her job for today

Aiden and Tristan arrived at school..

Caroline creating with the loose parts and cork board

Ella almost has her board covered, then she came to create with the cork boards and loose parts

Tristan an s Aiden choosing their jobs

Caroline came over to check out the LINES

Tristan checking out himself in the mirror and then making his creation

Look what Ella made!!

Aiden using the rocks and gems with the lines

Brody went to magnets first

Carly going to chose her job

Now playing the roll and cover

Carolines creation and I think she is making the face that she created on th ecork board!!

Carly was very hard a t work with her cork board creation

Ella wanted to save her rocket ship to work on later

SECOND STEPS

We had 2 new friends (PUPPETS). Jay J came back for this lessons and Rosetta had her first day. Tis lesson was to teach the children about LISTENING! Rosetta was very excited for her first day of school and was talking and bouncing around. The children help Rosetta learn how to sit on the blue carpet and listen

When then learn steps to help us be good listeners:

Eyes... are watching

Ears... are listening

Voices,,,,, quiet

bodies... calm

YOGA

We did the ski pose today

JESUS TIME

God created the world!!!

The children remembered that all the stories

from the bible are true (non fiction)

After we read from the bible we had a few minutes before we had to go outside

so they children shared stories about their weekend. They are doing such a great job of raising their hands to share

Lining up to go outside and walking to the play ground

OutsideTime

Liam was really happy to see his sister. Mrs Stanglein's class was just lining

up to go in when we came out

Pretty much at some point the whole class helped to fill this bucket!

Story Time

Carly's job today was sit by the teacher

Ella's job was librarian

Brody was our weather helper

Claire was our prayer leader

Caroline was our snack manager

SNACK

Second Steps

Mystery bag...... today I introduced our mystery bag. Whenever I introduce a new letter

I will have items hidden in the bag that begin with that letter.

I show the children the items or pictures of items) one at a time. We wait until everyone has seen the it then we say what it is. After all items are shown, we try to discover what the mystery letter is for that week

Lion, leaf, ladybug and lamp where the clues...

L is our letter.... to make the letter you need a BIG LINE and a LITTLE LINE

The children then told me words that start with the letter L

Next I showed the children how we are going to start signing in..... find the rock with your name on it and if you are at school today put it in the basket