First Week of preschool

We had a great first week of preschool. The children had fun checking out the different areas of the classroom. The house area and block area were very busy and they enjoyed painting on the easel, gluing designs and playing on the new playground. The first day of school we had play dough that changed color and that was magical.

Welcome to the new school year!

Welcome families to Calais preschool. I look forward to seeing you at the Meet and Greet on Monday, August 28th, 4:30-5:30 pm. We are going to have fun this year.

Planting fun

Today we continued our plant unit with dissecting a plant. We worked in teams of two and used our sense of smell, touch, and vision to discover the plants. We used magnifying glasses to see the inside of the stem, veins of the leaves and pollen. We used descriptive words to describe what we were discovering. When we wer finished, each team used the pieces of the plant to make a design.

January Fun

We have had fun learning about snow, ice and animals in winter. The children love doing winter experiments such as seeing if packed snow or fluffy snow melts fastest. Sledding has been too dangerous this month with all the icy weather but the children have had fun making snow cakes and painting in the snow.

We have also been working on recognizing letters and the sounds of letters. We had lots of laughs making letters with our bodies. The children have been building letters with wood pieces that are lines and curves.

In math we have been looking for patterns and have made some discoveries using the calendar. There was great excitement when someone found that the the numbers 1-9 repeat in the ones column but also in the tens column. We have also been using the pattern blocks to make designs and the block area has been busy with children designing buildings and ramps.

Playing instruments in music

Shaving cream snow

Mazes