Preschool 2

Week beginning 2nd June

The last hurrah is here!!

Our final days will be filled with everything we enjoy, dinosaurs, drawing, sticking, stamping, painting, bikes....you name it!

We are all so sad that the year is ending already, but excited we got to see your children grow!

We have loved spending our days with your gorgeous children and have felt really blessed to get to know all the families too. 

Thank you for partnering with us, supporting us and being there for us. This has been an extreamly unusal year and each one of you has helped us through it. 

I personally want to thank each of you for all the love you showed me these past few months, thank you! 

We all wish you a fantastic summer, have lots of adventures! 

With all our love, 

Lucinda, Yoli and Raquel 

Week beginning 27th May 

Our week ahead....

We are in our final days together! 

We will be creating sandcastles and jellyfish as well as reading books about going to the beach! 

• Glueing 

• Painting

• Sand play 

• Mould clay 

• Parachute fun 

• Party time on Friday!!!!

Week beginning 19th May 

Our week ahead…..

• Newspaper shark 

• Paint a large shark 

• Card clam shell 

• Egg carton fish 

• Sand and shells sensory table 

Week beginning 12th May 

Our week ahead….

• Paint a dinosaur

• Make a volcano 

• Observe a volcano experiment 

• Dip dinosaurs in paint and make dino tracks

Week beginning 5th May 

Our week ahead....

Mothers day is coming up! 

We love our mommy's very much so this week we will get creative and make a special little something for all our wonderful mommies! 

And as Fathers Day will fall after we have left for the summer, we will be rustling something up for all our fantastic dads too!

Week beginning 28th April

Our week ahead....

• Observe seeds germinating

• Make wooden flowers

• Stamp flowers in paint 

• Cherry blossom painting 

• Paint plant pots 

Week beginning 21st April 

Our week ahead....

• Create art from different recyclables 

• Paint with blue and green paint 

• Paper mache 

• Funnel and scoop water in the sensory table

•  Paint recycled cardboard art as a group project

Week beginning 14th April 

Our week ahead....

Lots and lots of Easter fun!!!

• Make a bunny headband 

• Decorate wooden bunnies

• Draw with egg shaped chalk

• Mould and shape play dough 

• Stamp with potatoes 

Week beginning 7th April 

Have a wonderful Spring Break!!!

We can’t wait for more Easter fun when we return on the 14th April.

Week beginning 31st March 

Our week ahead....

Hop little bunnies hop, hop... hop to it! We are preparing for Easter this week and will also have Chapel with Ms.Karen. 

• Stamp Easter bags

• Egg carton chicks

• Scoop and funnel pastel rice with plastic eggs at the sensory bin

• Watercolor resistance art 

• Sort plastic eggs by color

• Dance to the bunny polka 

Week beginning 24th March 

Our week ahead…..

Crawl, flutter or squirm this week, we will be exploring the insect world. 

We will make creepy crawly art creations, read bug books and look at insects through a magnifying glass. 

• Ladybug stones

• Butterfly mirror image painting

• Cardboard bugs

• Sensory table filled with pretend dirt and bugs 

• Observe caterpillars changing into butterflies 

Week beginning 17th March 

Our week ahead…..

We might need the luck of the Irish to catch the cheeky leprechauns on St Patrick's Day or maybe the fabulous rainbows we will  create will trick them in to thinking their gold is near!

Next week will be filled with color and rainbows galore!

• Paint a rainbow cutout 

• Rainbow mobile with pipe cleaners 

• Shamrock

• Sensory table filled with rainbow rice 

• Scarf dance to 'Somewhere over a Rainbow' 

Week beginning 10th March 

Our week ahead….

Whatever the Weather! 

Rain, sunshine or the wind this week is all about the weather!

We will listen to the sounds our weather can make from the rain tap tapping to the winds that can howl. For our art activities we will make cloud collages for our windows and paint large raindrops.

• Cloud, sun and lightning collage 

• Pinwheel windmills

• Decorate a windchime 

• Paint large raindrops 

• Sensory cloud dough 

Week beginning 3rd March 

Our week ahead…..

We will be flying high with the birds next week as we discover all the different types of birds that swoop and soar high above us. 

At music time, we will pretend to be birds and flap our wings!

• Make a bird nest collage

• Decorate a bird house

• Paint with feather dusters 

• Sensory table filled with bird seed

• Learn the song “Birds, Nests and Babies”

Week beginning 24th February 

Our week ahead....

Planes, trains, and automobiles are the main event this week! We will be talking about all the ways we can be transported from one place to another. 

• Paint a blue Santa Monica bus

• Collage land, air, and sea vehicles and decide where they belong

• Drive a large train made out of boxes

• Play with boats and bubbles in the sensory bin

• Sing wheels on the bus

• Zoom around like air planes in the sky

Week beginning 17th February 

Our week ahead....

Community helpers week. 

At a very appropriate time we will be saluting the community helpers that are there for us through the good times and the not so good times!

• Paint a fire helmet 

•  Trash truck collage 

• Sensory table diggers and construction site 

• Doctors bag paint and glue 

• Wipe board teeth cleaning - always need to see the dentist!

Week beginning 10th February

Our week ahead…..

• Valentines

• Red and white rice in the sensory table to scoop and funnel 

• Music and movement with scarves and singing ‘I’m a Pretty Valentine’

• Painting with pink, purple and reds 

Week 17

Happy New Year!

We are all so excited to be back and to see you all!

This week we will begin to talk about winter, brrrrr! 

The children will be able to go on an Arctic adventure searching out all the different Arctic animals around our room. 

For our sensory activity we will roll and mold white clay and we will also paint wooden snowflakes which we will turn into a winter mobile. 

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Paint small pine cones to make a winter mobile

  *Sponge paint penguin shapes

  *Make a tissue paper snowman collage

Manipulatives:

  *Build with winter  Duplos

  *Easel paint with cool colors

  *Build and stack sticks and spools

Science Table:

   *Set out plastic penguins, polar bears and other Arctic animals to explore

SensoryActivity:

   *Roll and mold white clay 

Literature:

  *The Biggest Snowball of All by Jan Belk Moncure

  *All About Animals in Winter by Martha E

Music and Movement:

  *Learn a new song, “I’m a Happy Snowman”

  *Pretend snowball fight: to “Let it, Snow, Let it, Snow, Let it Snow”

Week 16

We had such a fabulous week!! 

Thank you so much for all the wonderful Christmas gifts and cards. We all feel very blessed this holiday season. 

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Have lots of fun and we will see you in January.

With Love Lucinda, Raquel and Yoli 

Week 15

The children have been very busy these past few weeks making special decorations and ornaments for this wonderful holiday season. We hope your houses are looking very festive!

This week we will be creating art using rubber stamps, dot paints and more! 

We will also be making a headband for the children to wear during our Christmas Carols with Mr David. 

On Wednesday and Thursday we will be having pajama day!!

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Make an antler headband

  *Trace shapes with red & green crayons

  *Paint with dot paint

Manipulatives:

  *Balancing beads 

  *Bubble blocks in red and green 

  *Interlock and twist cogs on magnetic boards

Science Table:

  *Continue to explore pine cones and red & green objects

Sensory Activity:

  *White clay and water

Literature:

 *Stickman by Julia Donaldson

* Dear Santa by Rod Campbell

Music & Movement:

  *Play instruments and listen to ‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town’

  *Sing Christmas Carols

Week 14

It’s tree week in class this week!!! 

We will be continuing to decorating our class tree, painting large cutout Christmas trees and making tree window art!

Our sensory table will be filled with pine branches and pine cones. 

During Music and Movement, we will sing Christmas carols and have fun moving our large class parachute up and down to “Jingle Bells”.

We have picture day on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th!!!

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

   *Finger-paint and decorate a Christmas tree shape

   *Make a tissue paper Christmas tree

   *Paint and decorate a wreath

Manipulatives:

   *Build with green & red sticks and spools

   *Set out the wooden Nativity 

   *Decorate Christmas trees with garland and ornaments

Science Table:

   *Explore cut pine branches and small pine cones

Sensory Activity:

   *Roll and mold red and green clay 

Literature:

   *Construction Site: Merry and Bright by Sherri Duskey Rinker

   *Little Blue Truck’s Christmas by Alice Schertle

Music and Movement:

   *Parachute fun with bells

   *Sing Christmas carols

Week 13

This week we will be getting ready to deck the halls! We will be making different Christmas decorations using metallic paint, finger paint, glitter, and glue. During music time the children will have the opportunity to dance to “Jingle Bell Rock” and play “I Spy Red & Green Objects”. 

It’s also important to remember the reason for the season, ”Jesus ”.

This is a very special and exciting time of the year, we love Christmas in PS2!

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Paint picture frame ornaments

  *Marble paint large candy cane shapes  

  *Decorate an Angel

Manipulatives:

   *Nativity set

   *Snap together red & green plastic stars

   *Build with red & green magnetic tiles

Science Table:

   *Explore red & green objects

Sensory:

    *Dig for different red & green objects in the sensory table filled with white sand

Literature:

  *Goodnight Manger by Laura Sassi

  *Everyone Is Invited to Christmas by Susan Jones

Music & Movement:

  *Move our bodies to “Jingle Bell Rock”

  *Play “I Spy Red & Green Objects”

Week 12

Happy Thanksgiving!! 

Thank you all for making our feast so much fun!

Have a lovely week. 

When we return on the 2nd of December we will be diving into Christmas!

See you all soon. 

Week 11

This week we will be busy like bees preparing for our Thanksgiving celebration!

The children can easel paint turkey shapes, create a necklace and a hat.

In our sensory table we will enjoy exploring corn meal with scoops and funnels. 

During circle time we will encourage the children to think about what they are thankful for. 

Our feast will be the second day of this week, please join in our fun, you are all invited at 10.30am on!

This week’s activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Make a pumpkin necklace 

  *Easel paint turkeys 

  *Decorate a thankful hat 

Manipulatives:

  *Orange pumpkin scented playdough 

  *Emotion puzzles 

  *Build with blocks and magnetic blocks

Science Table:

  *Weigh and explore different Fall objects

Sensory Activities:

  *Scoop and funnel rice and pasta in the sensory table

Literature: 

  *Clifford’s Thanksgiving Visit by Norman Bridwell 

  *Biscuit Is Thankful by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Music & Movement:

  *Sing, “Hello Mr. Turkey”

  *Pretend to be turkeys waddling and gobbling around the classroom

Week 10

Harvest time! 

Our science table will be brimming with vegetables this week.

The children will be able to sort, smell and touch various vegetables as we discuss the importance of this food group. We will look at how the crops were grown and then harvested by the farmer. 

We will be rolling real corn through paint and watching the patterns it makes. We will also be  preparing decorations for our Thanksgiving feast. 

In addition, we will be filling our ‘Operation Christmas Child box’ with gifts and prayers. Thank you for your wonderful contributions to help fill our boxes - these will make other children very happy!

This week’s activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Corn print painting 

  *Make tissue paper corn collage  

  *Paint and glitter a small pumpkin 

Manipulatives:

  *Roll & mold play-dough

  *Build with farm Duplos

  *Sort plastic fruits and vegetables in the homeliving area

Science Table:

  *Explore fresh fruits and vegetables

  *Plant corn kernels in small baggies

Sensory Activities:

  *Roll and mold clay turkeys

Literature:

  *Biscuit Visits the Farm by Alyssa Satin Capucili

  *Corn by Gail Gibbons 

Music & Movement:

  *Move our bodies to “Popcorn” by Greg & Steve

  *Sing, “Hello Mr. Turkey”

Week 9 

Harvest time! 

Our science table will be brimming with vegetables this week.

The children will be able to sort, smell and touch various vegetables as we discuss the importance of this food group. We will look at how the crops were grown and then harvested by the farmer. 

We will be rolling real corn through paint and watching the patterns it makes. We will also be  preparing decorations for our Thanksgiving feast. 

In addition, we will be filling our ‘Operation Christmas Child box’ with gifts and prayers. Thank you for your wonderful contributions to help fill our boxes - these will make other children very happy!

This week’s activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Corn print painting 

  *Make tissue paper corn collage  

  *Paint and glitter a small pumpkin 

Manipulatives:

  *Roll & mold play-dough

  *Build with farm Duplos

  *Sort plastic fruits and vegetables in the homeliving area

Science Table:

  *Explore fresh fruits and vegetables

  *Plant corn kernels in small baggies

Sensory Activities:

  *Roll and mold clay turkeys

Literature:

  *Biscuit Visits the Farm by Alyssa Satin Capucili

  *Corn by Gail Gibbons 

Music & Movement:

  *Move our bodies to “Popcorn” by Greg & Steve

  *Sing, “Hello Mr. Turkey”

Week 8

This week in class the children will learn and talk about nocturnal animals especially bats and owls.  We will make a puffy moon and a very fluffy owl!

The children will be able to roll and mold black play-dough and learn a new song, “Have You Seen The Little Gray Owl”. 

We will also continue to sort and play with all the different leaves, bark, gourds, and pumpkins in our sensory table and around our room. 

Thank you to all our families for making our sensory experience so special by contributing ‘Fall Finds’!

Activities this week include:

Art Activities:

   *Make owls with salt containers, paint, and feathers

   *Use sponge rollers to paint a night sky

   *Create a puffy moon with foam paint and glue

Manipulatives:

   *Roll and mold night sky play-dough

   *Move magnet wands over iron shavings 

   *Build with small and large log shapes

Sensory:

   *Continue exploring the leaves and various Fall finds from our nature walks

   * Mix glue with shaving foam 

Science:

   *Explore X Rays of owls, bobcats and bats. 

Music & Movement:

   *Sing, “Have You Seen The Little Gray Owl”

   *Pretend to be owls and bats flying in the night sky

Literature:

   *Owl Babies by Martin Waddell 

   *All About Bats by Caryn Jenner

Week 7

This week we will be making a Fall collage!

We would love you to bring in lots of nature finds and encourage you to take the children on a nature hunt. We'll be searching for leaves, small twigs, bark, seed pods - anything that has fallen or been blown by the wind! 

We will be filling our sensor table up with all these wonderful nature finds and then using them to create our earthy natural piece of art. 

Pumpkins and gourds will be arriving in class too. We will be using them to help with our math skills! We will sort them by size and color.

This week’s activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Sponge paint large leaf shapes with Fall metallic paint

  *Glue and create a nature collage 

  *Paint a wooden acorn

Manipulatives:

  *String burlap leaves and ribbon 

  *Sort pumpkins and gourds by size and color

  *Build with squirrel and log shapes 

Science Table:

  *Explore leaves, twigs, bark, pine cones and pumpkin sizes 

Sensory Activities:

  *Feel and crunch leaves 

Literature:

  *Clifford and The Big Leaf Pile by Josephine Page 

  *In the Middle of Fall by Kevin Henkes

Music & Movement:

  *Sing, “Pumpkin Pumpkin”

  *Move our bodies over, under, and through an obstacle course

Week 6

Loving leaves, the way they swirl in the wind, the way they can crunch when you walk on them! 

During our circle time we will be getting in the music mood as we play instruments and move our bodies to music as we pretend to be a swirling leaf falling to the ground.

Our art table will be awash with ink and water as we decorate fall leaves for a garland. 

We will also be creating leaf rubbing using fall colored crayons.

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

   *Tissue paper leaf collage

   *Watercolor leaf shape with eye-droppers

   *Paint cardboard pieces with sponge rollers

Manipulatives:

   *Set out fall-colored pegs with boards

   *Magnet fun with fall leaves

   *Build with sticks and spools

Science Table:

   *Explore nature in sensory boxes

Sensory Activity:

  *Leaf rubbings with fall-colored crayons

Literature:

   *Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

   *Going On A Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger

Music & Movement:

   *Fun with instruments 

   *Move our bodies to music pretending to be fall leaves swirling and twirling to the ground.

Week 5

We are falling for Fall!!

The season of Autumn is upon us. This week we will be looking at apples!

The children will get to paint with apples and also create their own apple collage that we will hang in our trees outside. We will also taste different varieties of apples and ask the children which was their favorite and why. 

Ms Chrissy, our preschool outdoor teacher will be bringing the chickens from the upper preschool yard for a visit too! We can’t wait to meet our new fluffy friends, cluuuuckkkk!!!!

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

   *Fingerpaint large apple shapes

   *Tissue paper apple collage

   *Apple Stamping with red, yellow, and green paint

Manipulatives:

   *Sort red, yellow, and green plastic apples

   *Set out Flannel board with felt apples

   *Magnetic boards with cubes

Science Table:

   *Observer different seeds through magnifying glasses

   * Smell and taste different apples 

Sensory:

   *Scoop and funnel oatmeal 

Literature:

   *An Apple's Life by Nancy Dickmann 

   *An Apple a Day by Melvin Berger

Music & Movement:

   *Parachute fun and the ‘Fruit Salad’ song by The Wiggles 

   *New song, “Two Little Apples”

Week 4

There is a rumble in the jungle this week or at least in our classroom as we become marvelous explorers!

The children will discover the different forms of wildlife that live in the jungle from tigers to the emerald boa. 

We will see how some of the animals have wonderful patterns on their coats that help them become camouflaged in their habitat.

On our science table the children will get to investigate reptile fossils, a large claw and observe 'elephant toothpaste' as a science experiment!

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

   * Mold and cut out a clay monkey

   * Paint with an animal silhouette

   * Roller paint a large elephant

Manipulatives:

   * Build habitats using wooden blocks

   * Animal Duplo

   * Star connecting cogs

Sensory:

   *Dig for jungle animals in the sensory table

Science:

   *Observe ‘Elephant Toothpaste’ experiment

Music & Movement:

   *Prowl and dance to The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tokens

   *Shake tambourines  and play drums to ‘I Wanna Be Like You’

Literature:

   *Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae

   *In the Jungle by Axel Scheffler

   * We Hide, You Seek by Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey 

Week 3

We will be mixing it up this week, literally!! When, you may ask, are we not going to get messy? The answer would be never!

The children will explore colors and find out how if they mix red and blue together they make purple or if they mix yellow and blue they make green!
For a group activity, the children will use their strength and energy by stamping with large springs on paper. By dipping the springs in tempera paint they will create a big picture on our floor that we can then hang on our wall. 

At circle time we will read, “Mouse Paint” and “Blue Chameleon”.

This week’s activities include:

Art Activities:

  *Stamp with large springs in tempera onto butcher paper

  *Paint wooden pieces to make a color mobile

  *Stamp with small springs using tempera paint on watercolor paper

Manipulatives:

  *Combine two colors of play-dough to make a third

  *Set out color and shape puzzles

  *Snap together different color plastic beads

Science Table

  *Explore different shapes and colors

Sensory Activities:

  *Move and manipulate motion sand in art frames

  *Continue observing colors in sensory bottles

Literature:

  *Mouse Paint” by Ellen Stoll 

  *Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett

Music & Movement:

  *Dance with rainbow ribbons

  *Practice our balancing on our low balance beam outside

Week 2:

This week is bubble week, a highlight of the year I might add!

The class will experience jumping and walking on bubble wrap and painting with bubble wrap too.

Outside we will be chasing, touching, and popping bubbles. They will also have the opportunity to make bubbles of their own in our water table with whisks & beaters, and on the ground with large plungers. 

This week’s activities include:

Art Activities:

    *Make bubble shapes using large plungers and water on the play-yard

    *Paint with bubble wrap to make prints on watercolor paper

    *Stamp paint round shapes 

Manipulatives: 

    *Build with small wooden blocks

    *Stack and sort plastic bubbles

    *Snap together colored tiles

Science Table:

    *Explore colors in sensory bottles 

Sensory Activities: 

    *Touch, pop, and chase bubbles in our yard

    *Whisk and stir soapy water to make bubbles

    *Run and jump on bubble wrap

Literature:

    *Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere by Dwight Kuhn

    *Busy Feet by Elaine Watson

Music & Movement:

    *Scarf dance

    *Sing Songs with Finger Puppets

Week 1: 

We are up and running! We are going to have the best school year ever! 

All of us here in preschool 2 are so excited to get to know each and everyone of your children and all our wonderful families over the upcoming school year. 

This week we will talk about our hands and our feet and about all the different ways we can use them. 

Our class will be filled with sensory actives including  moulding play dough, clear bags filled with paint which the children can push and squeeze as well as our science table displaying different textured objects.

At circle time we will read, “God Made You Nose to Toes” and talk about sharing and being a kind friend. 

This week's activities include:

Art Activities:

   *Move small cars back and forth through the paint to make tracks on paper

   *Make a sensory collage with contact paper, tissue paper, feather, and yarn

   *Draw with crayons

Manipulatives:

   *Puzzles

   *Build with Duplos

   *Set out large wooden beads with scales

Science Table:

   *Touch different textured objects

Sensory Table:

   *Roll and mold play-dough

   *Sensory bag

Literature:

   *God Made You Nose to Toes by Leslie Parrott

   *Quick As A Cricket by Audrey Wood

Music & Movement:

   *Sing, If Your Happy and You Know It

   *Sing songs with finger puppets 

Meet and Greets!

I'm so excited to meet you and your little ones at our upcoming Meet and Greets held on September 4th, 5th, and 6th. Please be sure to confirm your time slot with the below links:

• PS2 3-Day Program Meet and Greet Sign Ups: 9/4

• PS2 2-Day Program Meet and Greet Sign Ups: 9/5

• PS2 5-Day Program Meet and Greet Sign Ups: 9/6

Items to bring with you to the Meet and Greet

1. Please bring a labeled shoebox-sized container filled with a change of clothes and shoes.

2. Labeled wipes and diapers.

3. Please have your Brightwheel login code written down or accessible. We will help you practice signing in and out.

We can't wait!