Letter U and Letter V

Underwater Themed Letter U Light Table

Hands on Sensory Underwater Table

U.F.O Counting

Utensils Bin

Unicorn Prewriting

Letter V

Planet Venus Potato Masher Painting

 

Count Marshmallow Teeth For the Vampire

Sticky Wicky Stick Vines

at the light table

Building Letter V with

geometric tangrams

Vancouver Attractions Map

Volkswagon Colour Matching

Volcanic Eruoptions

Vegetable open ended sensory bin

Vegetable Printing

Fairy Tales Continued!

Merlin's Magical Potion Mixing Station

Open ended Merlin's Wizard Wand decorating

Knight's Helmet painting at the easel

Pre Writing Practice

Help the knight get to the castle!

Numeracy Shield Making

Little Red Riding Hood

Small World story re enactment

Sticky Little Red's Basket Making

Little Red Riding Hood

Making cookies for Granny at the art table

Castle building at the light table

Pre Writing with Little Red vocabulary

Mother's Day Tea baking

Silohette story retelling

Red Riding Hood Group Painting

Capital and Lowercase Cookie Sorting

Pre-writing Practice

Little Red Story and Character Matching

Forest Puzzle

Little Red Characters

Tops and Bottoms Matching

Orca Room: Books, Books, Books!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hands on Story recall and re enactment

Bear Puzzle

Fine Motor, 1-to-1 Correspondence, and Visual Discrimination are put to good use!

We can't go over it,

We can't go under it,

We'll have to go through it!

Story Recall Sensory Bins

The tall grass, wide river, muddy marsh land, snow storm

Story Recall Sequencing Activity

Story Recall

Map making

 

It Looked Like Spilt Milk

 

What Does Your Cloud Look Like?

Felt board activity

Cloud Pre Writing Practice

Cloud Making at the Art Table

Cloudy Sky Water Bin

 

Visual Discrimination

Shape Matching

Cloud Counting

May Newsletter

Welcome to May, Preschool Families!


We are officially into our second to last month of the school year and can't believe how quickly the year has flown by!  We are cherishing every moment we have left with the students!  You may notice in the following weeks that we are leading more circle times and/or snack times outside, and we may be spending a few extra minutes to lead the children on neighbourhood walks to take in all of the beautiful flowers blooming.  Please don't forget to dress your child for the weather of the day.  This can include sunscreen, sun hats, and shirts that cover shoulders from the sun.

Important Dates and Reminders

Mother's Day Tea

Orca 3am- Thursday, May 5th

Orca 4am/ 4pm; Unicorn 3am/4pm- Friday, May 6th

Professional Development Day- No classes in session

Friday, May 20th

Victoria Day- No classes in session

Monday, May23rd

***Don't forget to mark your calendars for Park Day- Friday, June 10th!***

For parents of students in the Unicorn Room.....

As we are sure you've already noticed, we are delving into the magical world of Fairy Tales!  We noticed that we were hearing students stretching their imaginations during outside time as well as during our open-ended free play time; there has been fanciful talks and musings of fairies, trolls, and woodland sprites!  As educators, this is music to our ears!!  I have added a link to a wonderful article from The Scottish Book Trust, written by Saoirse Docherty, about why fairy tales are important for children.  The points laid out summarise our beliefs quite nicely and we are excited to share them with you!  When you have a moment, take a peek. 

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/blog/reading/2014/06/5-reasons-why-fairy-tales-are-good-for-children

Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes

 

 

 

 

 

Jack and the Beanstalk



Fine Motor Beanstalk Building
Clay holds pipe cleaners as the children use a variety of materials to recreate Jack's beanstalk.

Retelling the story in our bean filled sensory bin

 

Bean Counting

Lacing the Golden Harp

and strengthening small fingers with fine motor skills

 

Which Picture is Different?

Visual Discrimination Skills

Jack and the Beanstalk

Numeral Puzzle

Gold coin light table exploration

Fine Motor Cutting Practice 

Pre writing Practice 

 

 

 

 

 

Cloud and Beanstalk painting

Magic Bean Creations

Roll the Dice Graph

 

 

 

 

Harp Shape Matching

 

 

Story Character Graphing