Miss Harley's Preschool Happenings

  Monday December 16th We started our day by enjoying some hot chocolate and sugar cookies from our amazing cafeteria staff. Afterwards, we practiced a new skill during letter time that branches us more towards reading.  We practiced stretching, blending, and identifying letter sounds.  I would say simple CVC words and students would help me stretch the words to hear the letter sounds.  We also did this process backwards, where I gave students letters and we worked to blend the sounds. During Religion, we talked about the birth of Jesus and read about a school doing a Nativity play, similar to the one we do at St. Peter. Tuesday December 17th We started the day by coloring ornaments that Mrs. Kristen brought in for us.  Students enjoyed getting to color their ornaments and sing along to all sorts of Christmas songs. During letter time, we learned our very first heart word.  Heart words are words we need to know by heart because part of the word makes a soun...

  Monday December 9th We started our day with letter time and practiced finding the beginning sounds of the words in a sentence.  We also talked about how to write an upper and lowercase Ss and when you would need to use the uppercase letter. During Religion, we read through our nativity book and discussed the order of the story. We finished our day by working on some fine motor skills and made torn paper Christmas lights to display in our classroom. Tuesday December 10th We started the day by looking for our Jesus doll who holds a secret puzzle piece everyday and the students were looking high and low. We continued to review the letter Ss and practiced finding the beginning sounds again. During Religion, we colored our Nativity books that we had read the day before and continued to practice recalling story details. Wednesday December 11th Today we started by practicing how to make an uppercase T and reviewed the sound that Tt makes.   During Religion, we practiced p...

  Monday December 2nd We have officially started talking about letter formation and how to write each letter.  Today we started by practicing making an uppercase M and reviewed what sound m makes. During religion, we watched a video to help explain the season of Advent.  Students learned that we light one candle each week as we are preparing our hearts for the coming of Jesus. Tuesday December 3rd We continued on writing the letter Mm but introduced the process for writing the lowercase version.  After practicing with magic writing fingers, students got to practice writing both upper and lowercase M on the tables using dry erase markers and they loved it! They also learned how to write their first word other than their names.  We practiced writing and sounding out "mom". For Religion class, we read the story of the angel Gabriel telling Mary the good news. we then discussed how Mary was an ordinary woman who God picked to be special because she opened her heart ...