Miss Harley's Preschool Happenings

  Monday October 21st Today we started with reviewing previously learned handwriting buddies as we have officially covered our basic handwriting strokes!  We also started learning about the letter Ss and came up with a list of words that all started with Ss.  Students also got an extra tidbit of knowledge by realizing that words that start with sh make the "shh" sound. During religion class, we read the story "Only One Cookie".  The story talks about a family dinner and at the very end, only one cookie is left for dessert.  Adam, the main character, chooses to share the cookie with his sister instead of eating the whole cookie by himself. Tuesday October 22nd We continued to review previously learned handwriting buddies, focusing mainly on a straight up and down stick.  We also practiced telling which words rhyme and don't rhyme. We finished up talking about our Ss words for our list. During Religion, we recalled our story details by playing the true/false ...

  Monday October 14th Today we started with by learning how to combine lines and slants to make a triangle.  We also continued to say rhyming words and pick out the ending sound or the "rhyme".  We then moved on to learning the letter Qq and made our word list. Students even received a compliment from Mr. Veit about how well they could identify the rhyme in a word. During religion, we read "God's Promise" from Stories of God's Love, which is the story of Noah's ark.  We practiced our recall skills and discussed how the rainbow is a sign of God's promise to love and care for everyone and everything. At the end of the day, students worked on making blown paint ghosts.  A drop of paint was put on the paper and students used straws and their breath to blow the paint around on the paper. Tuesday October 15th We continued on our rhyming words today.  We also reviewed the letter Qq and the sound that it makes. For religion class, we created our very own rai...

  Monday October 7th For phonics and handwriting, we reviewed how to make a slant and how to put the two together to make an X. We also started talking about the letter Oo and what sound it makes.   During Religion, we read "Ducks and Flowers" from Stories of God's Love.  This story is about a little girl who is visiting the park with her parents.  She tries to take care of nature but finds that some things we think are helpful are actually harmful.  We also talked about why those things could be harmful even though they seem super helpful. Tuesday October 8th During phonics and handwriting, we reviewed how to make an X and used paint dabbers to trace the shape on paper.  We also continued to work on the letter Oo. For religion class, we discussed ways to take care of God's creations and how we can take care of ourselves, as God's special creation.  Wednesday October 9th We practiced making X on the whiteboard. We also started discuss the letter P...

  Tuesday October 1st Today, we continued to practice our slants but introduced a sliding slant.  We started at the top and slid to the bottom right.  We also started talking about the letter Mm and made a list with all sorts of words. During Religion, we read the story "God Made All Things Good" out of Stories of God's Love, which is based off of the creation story.  Afterwards, we discussed what God created in the beginning and how He created everything out of goodness. At the end of the day, we created pumpkin artwork by gluing strips of paper to a large piece of paper and placing a pumpkin overlay.  These are displayed inside the classroom. Wednesday October 2nd We continued to work on our slants during handwriting and phonics time.  We also started discussing rhyming words and what makes them rhyme.  Students were told two words that rhyme and had to work together to tell me what the ending sound was that rhymed. During Religion, we talked about h...