N is for Nursery Rhymes

Nn is for Nursery Rhymes.  I am a huge Nursery Rhyme fan for many reasons.  Rhymes are important in early reading, children thrive on being able to repeat songs and rhymes on their own, they are simple little stories, and there is a rhythm to the rhymes that also help with early reading.

The Preschool class has learned a ton of Nursery Rhymes and will be reciting them for the parents in a month. 

I will explain what we did in this week, through the photos:


Outside play time is so important and I had to capture what we see every day with the children:

Earning a prize, because of of their accumulated stars for good behavior:

One of our center activities was putting tangrams together.  That ties in to the art project later in the week.

Here is another center on math:  Each bowl had a number on the bottom.  The children put the number of "ice cream scoops" (poof balls) into the bowl to match the number.

Getting assessed:

The Preschool class gets a 4:1 ratio when it comes to learning their letter, number, phonics, shapes, and colors.

One of our centers, in the Preschool class, was from another week was to put together a clock.  We took our clocks and repeated the rhyme: "Hickory Dickory Dock" while letting the mouse go up and down the clock.  We then sent them home that day, so they can be played with at home.

During writing:

This story time was through a velcro board featuring some Nursery Rhymes.

During Drama, we are listening to the story of The Gingerbread Man.  We've listened to several versions and will act it out soon.

The Preschool class is learning a new set of songs that will be performed for the parents in March.

Miss Margene explains the art project, which was to take the precut shapes and glue them on to the tangram of Little Boy Blue.

While each group worked on their tangram art, the other group worked on putting puzzles together.

Using the chalk board to practice writing:

On Friday, the children were able to enjoy fun activities around building letters, matching capitals/lower cases, or matching letters to the beginning of the word on a picture card.

The other group worked with magnets as part of our science.

The third group listened to a story featuring Nursery Rhyme characters.

I'm not a huge fan on coloring on worksheets, but since they'll be doing that a lot in kindergarten, I need to have the children do this in class once in a while:

The next week is Jj is for jets.