Trip to the Ocean!

This is a great time to get out of our heat and take a drive to the ocean.  Children like this unit because they can relate to their trips they have made to the ocean.  We are learning about shells, marine life and pirates (pretending, of course!)   Our class has been busy painting, pretending with our new set of ocean animals and pirate ships.   The class has really bonded and it has been fun to watch them make new friends.  They are very interested in each other's emotions and I have taught them if they want to hug a friend they must ask first.  We are respecting each other's space.!

I can tell the new craze of selfies has hit the little ones!  One of them asked me to do a selfie and before I knew many of them wanted to join in!  It was quite fun since I usually don't care for selfies!

There were many giggles during selfie time!

Fun First Week!

We had a great first week of summer session and the children are all making new friends.   Even on the second day of class the children are falling into routine and their "class jobs".

The children mixed blue and yellow paint to make super Hero green!  This week the children called everything super power!  Super power painting, super power cleaning up and Super power snacks.

It's fun to offer an idea and have the children take off with it!

Super Pretend play!

   We have a new Circle Time board to learn days of the week, weather, counting, letter recognition and more.     We worked on our letters this week with Super S for Spiderman and Star.!
                                    Coming next week.......The Ocean!

SUPER HERO WEEK!

Summertime fun started today with Super Heroes! We made new friends and talked about what kind of "powers" we have.   A common answer was "I help people!"   We talked about real life heroes like our police officers, firemen, our president and more.  Pretending is all part of this age and helps  children cognitively work out problems, learn to communicate with others, and learn social rules.
Today we did just that!

We are all SUPERKIDS!

 Practicing our tracing, matching games, math manipulative were fun too.

Group play with the parachute!  

.....And then the lights went out for cool in the dark play!

And its always nice when a former student visits me.  Douglas was in my preschool class when he was 3!   (And he's taller too!)

Happy Graduation Day 2015!

What a wonderful way to end our school year at McQueen!  The children enjoyed playing together and having our last snack and book reading time together.  

Then it was on to prepare for the march!

We marched and had a great time becoming Kindergartners and celebrating our year together!

Celebrating afterwards with our families........

Happy Graduation Pre-K Class Spring Session 

An "end" to a very good year!

 Thank you families for the wonderful gifts, cards, and positive comments you gave me today.  I love what I do and the children mean the world to me.  They are forever on my heart.   Have a great summer!