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2024-2025
International Games Month
International Games Month
Students in Prekindergarten learned about International Games Month. We talked about what the word "international" means and read two different picture books about the game of "Telephone" gone awry. The girls then tried their hand at a game of telephone!
Hands
Hands
Prekindergarten students started class with the finger play, "Where Is Thumbkin?" They then read High Five by Adam Rubin. In this interactive story, readers got to practice high five-ing different competitors in the "annual high five championships." After defeating an octopus (!), students traced their prize-winning hands and then decorated them.
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
Students in PreK learned the nursery rhyme, "Old Mother Hubbard." They talked about what a cupboard is and they then each placed an item of food into our empty cupboard. They had to determine whether the food was a healthy food that we can eat whenever we want or if it was a special food that we get to eat as a treat. Healthy foods like bananas, grapes, and milk were placed on one side of the cupboard while "special treats" were placed on the other side of the cupboard.
Little Miss Muffet
PK students performed the nursery rhyme, Little Miss Muffet, and they talked about spiders...just in time for Halloween.
DINOSAURS!!!
PK students learned about dinosaurs. After reading Ten Little Dinosaurs, they talked about fossils and got to make their own fossil of a dinosaur footprint.
Making fossils!
How big is a T Rex footprint?
Can you fit inside the T Rex footprint?
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock
Mother Goose Theatre
Mother Goose Theatre
In Prekindergarten, students participate in Mother Goose Theatre through which they learn vocabulary and gain valuable skills presenting in front of their peers.
2023-2024
Old King Cole
Old King Cole
Students in Prekindergarten learned the nursery rhyme, "Old King Cole," and then acted it out. The fiddlers performed a lovely rendition of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
Lena's Shoes Are Nervous
Lena's Shoes Are Nervous
PK students read Lena's Shoes Are Nervous by Keith Calabrese. In it, Lena is excited for her first day of school, but her shoes are nervous! After reading the story, the girls colored pictures of shoes and decided whether they are happy, nervous, or excited!
Mother Goose Theatre
Mother Goose Theatre
In PK, the students act out nursery rhymes to help build language (through repetition) and to get used to speaking in front of their peers. Students learned what "nimble" means and practiced jumping over a candlestick.
PreK started their year in the library by learning a finger play about...BOOKS! In addition to helping children focus, finger plays assist with language development as well as hand-eye coordination.
2022-2023
For Mother Goose Theatre: Halloween Edition!, PreK students learned Little Miss Muffet and then acted it out for each other. They also learned about spiders and how they are good for our planet.
PreK students acted out Hey, Diddle, Diddle and enjoyed getting to play either the cat playing the fiddle, the little dog laughing, the cow who jumps over the moon, or the dish and the spoon.
To celebrate International Dot Day, Prek Frogs had a special visit with 1st graders from the Brewster Elementary School in Durham, Connecticut. Our girls had a chance to introduce themselves and to talk about our City, school, and uniforms! Students then enjoyed a read aloud of Mo Willem's Elephants Cannot Dance.
The PreK curriculum includes learning and acting out Mother Goose nursery rhymes. This week, PreK students acted out "Hickory, Dickory Dock." (No mice were injured in the creation of this scene.)
PreK celebrated International Dot Day by reading Peter Reynolds' The Dot and then making their own dots. They learned what the word "international" means and learned the importance of signing your name to your art work!
NEW TO THE LIBRARY IN 2022!!! At the beginning of each class, PreK students have to tap a magic want to open the Library chest to find out what they will be learning about and reading in the Library.
2021-2022
Make a Story!
Make a Story!
After learning that every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and reading "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," Prekindergarten then put the story of Humpty Dumpty into the correct order.
Prekindergarten learned about insects! They then made their own insects using play-do, beads, pipe cleaners, and Q-tips.
Acting out Grace Lin's Bringing in the New Year to celebrate the Lunar New Year
PreK enjoys author visits with Judy Andry (left) and Sydney Zifodya (Right)
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