Wheels, Ramps, Measurement & Letters!

It was a short, but FUN week of LEARNING about lots of important concepts! Check out some this weeks' learning gems.

Help! This car has all 4 WHEELS, but they need some fixin'!

Tools! I need tools to get your car ready, ma'am, but you'll just need to wait because this car is going to take time to fix!

We can ALL work together to help at this repair shop!



Ramps are great for BUSES and cars to ZOOM down. Building SCIENTIFIC THINKING, ORAL LANGUAGE & MATH skills are so fun do as we PLAY.

Let's look at where we see wheels and (kids chose on this goal) HOW MANY we can find!

I see 1,2,3,4 wheels on this garbage can!

Ramps are so fun to BUILD! They can be LONG or SHORT and make cars go FAST, or SLOW!

 Gel bags make letter learning feel like PLAYING!

This is a K, can you say K? What letter is this? K.

 

When you already know L and K, what do you do? PLAY a game of LETTER TOWERS!
Check out this fun, individualized and INTENTIONAL letter/sound game in Ms. Cheek's room!

 

Sometimes playing means painting with colors we love and

ideas we hope to express.

 

It was a GREAT week at OCP! We can't wait to see what next week holds for our little learners.

 

Colorful Times for our Budding Scientists!

Thanks, Karen, for the great idea for creating a COLOR CATERPILLAR. This was a HIT for our young explorers. While the colors captivated their attention, the mixing invited curiosity. Questioning, Predicting, and Drawing Conclusions created that scientific inquiry we value so much!

 

The Color Caterpillar sticks around to continue to invite exploration and color mixing understandings. 





 The Walls come alive with a color explosion! Look at all we did to explore and learn about color though science, play, literacy, math, and art?






Flowers of all kinds adorn the rooms! Look at the carnations and coffee filter flowers. 

 



Angie Prather's idea of honoring students with letter seats for the week is taking the preschool by storm and resulting in ALPHABETIC KNOWLEDGE!

Oh, the joys of effective PLC work!

Measurement and Growing Animals! What more can a little scientist ask for? Check out this "growing" lizard- getting bigger by the day. It's so much fun to intentionally move toward the transfer: gather, analyze, and use evidence from tools, interactions as an opportunity to learn and communicate!

Math + Science + Oral Language

Patterns= Math learning

What math & literacy lessons can result from this simple graphic?

 

 

 

Great Happenings at the OCP

If you are hoping to peek inside of other classrooms and get the feel for what others are doing to spark creativity and learning through play, check out these photos.

 Play Plans combine thinking, creativity, writing, and PLAY!
Are you kids ready to begin these valuable learning tools? YES!

Some teachers have used them as true Play Plans, while others have had kids reflect on their favorite "learning through play" time of the day.

Either way you are harnessing thinking, creativity, and literacy skills.  

Turn you head and you will see this little one reading to her bear. What a delightful experience. Looking at pictures of kids from all over the world, she tells be bunny quite a tale. (Haha, get it, tale, tail??!)

All aboard!!! This simple box transformed into the famous Mayflower as students took ownership. They created the mast, wrote the name of the boat, and invented all the play that came with it! Social studies, social play, literacy, and science all in one!

 

Another moment of self-selected play in action. These little guys are drawn to the literacy center where they extend stories they have heard in read aloud. They often add pages, or create new stories to share with the class in this room.

OCP Family Night Dinner & Dialogic Reading

Welcome to Family Night at OC Preschool!

Every letter counts! Even teacher name signs offer letter recognition opportunities!

  

Families enjoyed pizza and cookies before the reading fun!

Mrs. Clark takes time to ask her kiddos their thinking about the text she just read. "What do you predict will happen next?"

Writing names is a critical part of a child's learning. And FUN!
 



Mrs. Prather uses a book with BIG numbers to
 embrace both literacy and math learning.

 


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Welcoming and sharing the purpose for the activity is SO important for all who come to learn.

Mrs. Banks reiterates the importance of Dialogic Reading  with children as she closes out the modeling portion.

Leaving with a book to try it out on is the icing on the cake! Readers need BOOKS!

What was the feedback?

 

   

Unit 2- We Are Into You!

This year,  Unit 2 has had a bit of a different feel. Teachers are working with ensuing that our students' "Well-Beings" are balances. Here is a sneak peek into the last week of Preschool.

Reading books is so much fun! Reading familiar poems is a ball, too!
How many of our little Peacocks are already 'reading" our rhyme?

 
Letters line the way for students in Mrs. Honeycutt's room!

 

Towers of 4 are EVERYWHERE in Mrs. Clark's room.

Plan Plans helps Peacocks to sustain play.

 Letters and Books are fun to play. with in centers!



Picture Sorts with beginning sounds becomes a GAME!

 Writing!

 

It's fun to add pages to the end of our shared reading. Good night, ______.

Unit 2- We Are Into You!

This year,  Unit 2 has had a bit of a different feel. Teachers are working with ensuing that our students' "Well-Beings" are balances. Here is a sneak peek into the last week of Preschool.

Reading books is so much fun! Reading familiar poems is a ball, too!
How many of our little Peacocks are already 'reading" our rhyme?

 
Letters line the way for students in Mrs. Honeycutt's room!

 

Towers of 4 are EVERYWHERE in Mrs. Clark's room.

Plan Plans helps Peacocks to sustain play.

 Letters and Books are fun to play. with in centers!



Picture Sorts with beginning sounds becomes a GAME!

 Writing!

 

It's fun to add pages to the end of our shared reading. Good night, ______.