CCS PreK 3-4: May 2- May 6

This week we talked about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Cinco de Mayo, and Mother's Day! We had a very full week! The kids got to see a blown-up globe and talk about how we can keep the Earth clean. We talked about where we are on the globe and they learned about the land and the oceans. We read a few books about recycling and talked about ways that they can recycle things.

For their Nursery Rhyme notebooks, they added Hey Diddle, Diddle, The Muffin Man, and Jack and Jill. They are getting very good at remembering the past ones that we've done! We acted out a few of our nursery rhymes, and then they sequenced pictures from them. We also worked on sorting pictures based on what letter they start with and we played a game called "Letters in my Name." The kids each got a piece of paper divided in half and they had to go around the room and write letters that are in their name on the happy-face side, and then letters that are not in their name on the sad-face side. They did a great job at this and had a lot of fun trying to find all the letters in their name!

We also had a great day on Cinco de Mayo! We got to see a map of Mexico and also found it is on the globe. The students got to pass around a blanket from Mexico, maracas from Mexico, and pesos! We practiced counting in Spanish and then they got to watch some Spanish dancing! We had a fun snack of chips and salsa, capri suns, and cheese roll-ups! They colored Spanish pictures, made maracas, danced with the maracas, and got to hit a pinata! They all ended up getting lots of candy from it too :)

And on Friday, we had lots of fun getting to eat muffins with our moms and giving them are card with pictures of us on it!

Playing the "Letters in my Name" Game