Samuel Morey Preschool

Friday, April 12, 2019

April 8 - 12

This week, we started learning about baby animals! On Monday, we started our new baby animal matching greeting at morning meeting. Half of the children have cards with adult animals, and the other half have cards with those animals’ babies. The children greet each other based on who has the match to their animal. We also read “Does a Kangaroo Have A Mother Too?” by Eric Carle to talk about the fact that all animals start out as babies. On Tuesday, we read “Lost in the Woods.” It is a fantasy story with real photographs of a baby fawn and other forest animals. On Wednesday, Ms. Rice was out sick, but Mr Matt and Ms Becka read “What’s in That Egg?” which introduces many different animals that are born from eggs. On Thursday, Mr Rob and Ms Kathleen (some of the previous preschool teachers in the district) came to visit and read us a very silly story! The older students loved seeing their old teacher again! On Friday, we had pajama day to celebrate the last day of school before April Break! We also had a special visit from the Murray family’s new baby goats! It was so much fun having three baby goats come to visit us, and it gave us some great hands-on knowledge about real baby animals! Later in the day, we worked together to make a chart with rules regarding how we will keep our baby chicks safe when they arrive after break. The students came up with most of the rules together and we all agreed to teach the rest of our friends about the safety rules when we come back to school. Next week, we will not be here because of April Break, but when we come back on the 22nd, there will be eggs in an incubator and lots of new, fun things for us to learn about! Have a great vacation!

A heart-shaped piece of ice!

Farm puzzle

Proudly showing off her horse puzzle

Artists at work

Working on the puzzle with Mrs Becka

Two teachers writing the “Morning Message”

Another horse puzzle completer

Play-doh silliness

Portraits of Preschoolers

Painting princesses

“Fishing” in the puddle

Thursday afternoon crew (taken by Mr Rob)

Another horse puzzle!

The babies of preschool

The Murrays’ new baby goats came to visit us!

Loving mama

Pajama Day!

Our safety chart for the chicks

Sunday, April 7, 2019

April 1 - 5

This week, we learned more about spring and what it brings. On Monday, we read “Hello Spring,” a book with real photographs that show what spring looks like. We also spent the day telling silly jokes since it was April Fools Day! On Tuesday, we learned about mud. At morning meeting, we read the story “Mud” by Mary Lyn Ray. We also made our own mud! First, we passed around a bowl of dirt to touch and look at. Then, we added water, mixed it up, and passed it around again to notice how it changed. Later, we went outside a litttle bit early so we could take a sensory walk around the school. The students used their ears, eyes, noses, and hands to make amazing sensory observations about spring! We added our observations to our spring sensory chart when we came inside. On Wednesday, we learned about worms! At morning meeting, we read “Worm Weather” and talked about why worms come out when it rains. Later, we read “Wonderful Worms,” and our new high school helper, Ms. Casey, taught us some sign language while Ms. Rice read the story! Along with learning new signs, we also learned why worms are so important for soil. On Thursday, we started learning about how maple syrup is made. Ms. Rice shared stories and pictures of when she went sugaring with her grandpa as a child. Later, we read “Sugaring” by Jessie Haas which is also about a young girl who helps her grandfather make maple syrup! On Friday, we continued learning about maple syrup production by watching a PBS video about how maple syrup is made. After the short video, we worked together to sequence the steps of maple syrup production. Finally, the students each got a small cup with warm maple syrup in it for them to taste the results of the maple sugaring process! Almost all of the students loved the taste of the syrup, but some said it was too sweet. Next week, we will start learning about baby animals! This will be the beginning of a longer baby animals/farms unit that will continue after April Break and include a field trip to the Mountain School and a chick/duckling-hatching project!