Next Week is RAINBOW week in Preschool!

Hope everyone had a nice vacation!

Article Worth Reading...

It is long, but well worth the read.  It addresses touch screen technology and young children.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/the-touch-screen-generation/309250/


                                                                                                                                                                         Erin Patrice O’Brien

This is how we roll...

the teachers that is! 

Counting is FUN

We have introduced these counting cards.  They are helpful in may ways.  Young children often lack the finger dexterity show "how many" on their little hands. These cards can help illustrate the finger movements.  They also work on number identification, counting skills and one to one correspondence. AND they are fun and the kids love them!  Easy to make at home.  Just take a picture or use Google images to find them and make number cards.  Enjoy and happy counting!

Yoga Recommendation from a parent

One of our families has begun to introduce YOGA to their 3 year old with great success!  She uses the Cosmic Kids Yoga videos on Youtube.

Check it out! 

http://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

We will be doing some yoga with our classes this spring, so it would be fun to try it at home as well.

Play!

Things That Go!!  Here's Carrie modeling our new cars. 

We are busy getting ready for next week!  Carrie created cars to race around the playground.  We will be talking about boats and do a sink the boat experiment.  Please send in extra pennies!  We will donate them to the food shelf when we finish.  We will explore cars, buses, boats and other vehicles.  We are recycling Girl Scout cookie boxes into blocks to create vehicles that we can "ride" in for dramatic play.  Books on our agenda include:  My Car and Who Sank the Boat?  Activities includes painting with vehicles and a car wash in the water table. 

For classroom use, we could use: 

• Small paper plate
• Clorox Wipes
• Paper towels
• Corn starch
• Salt
• Flour
• Cream of Tartar
• Shaving Cream
• Forks

If you have donated items often in the past, please take this month off.  We love donations but don't want to over tax anyone family!  Thank you for everything that has come in. 

The Doctor's office theme will be wrapping up this week.  The kids have really enjoyed giving the babies, each other and the teachers shots and exams.  We will send home borrowed items soon.