Name play in preschool has many cognitive benefits which include the ideals that recognizing one's name helps children feel important, recognizing others' names builds community, name recognition builds concepts of print and begins the process of site reading, and knowing your own name supports beginning math
Name Bingo
To help support names as a piece of community, the children’s names are used in many daily routines within the classrooms, including: taking ownership over one’s belongings in cubbies, as words on writing center walls, and as pieces in games such as name sorts where children can sort names from shortest to longest or try to match a friend’s name to their photo and finding their name on their sit spot and foot spot.
Fun activities this week included focusing on the first letter in everyones name.
Collage Initials
Nature Initials
Monster Initials
Letter Stamping.
We read the story Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Then we made our own alphabet tree.
Letter writing practice
I love the concentration.
Pre-k just having fun.
This week is the celebration of the jewish holiday Hanukkah. Some of our friends in class celebrate this holiday. The children were sharing information with each other (I loved this). Not necessarily accurate :). I took the opportunity to talk to the children about the celebration of light and the Hanukkah menorah. We had fun counting all the candles.
SPECIALS
PE
ART
Adding watercolors to our mitten.
FRENCH
Learning more numbers to count. Ask your children to count for you. They are really good at it.
LIBRARY
Interactive flannel board story.
Another great week!