Bri's Bees: April 2013

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Learning the Continents

The month of April has flown by! We had such a fun time learning about continents this year in preschool. We spent time learning about each continent with our continent boxes. During lesson time students got to come and pick something out of the box and explain why they thought it belonged to that continent. So much fun! In the Africa box we even had a bracelet made out of elephant tail hair.

We also completed a few great art projects for each continent.

For South America we made rain sticks- totally cool. They took a little more adult help then I thought they would though. And we tried but they didn't make it start raining.

For Europe we watercolored a picture of the Eiffel Tower which was easy and fun! They turned out so pretty too.

For Asia we made accordion dragons. The Mulan movie was in the continent box that day. They wanted to watch it instead of do art. :) Too bad kiddos!

For our Australia day we made paper bag kangaroos and for Antarctica we made snowflakes.

We also got to have a preschool party! We filled up our jar with poms poms we earned working hard. We played a lot of fun games to celebrate. After learning time we went on a treasure hunt for our special treat (chocolate chip cookies). We played a new game we called musical numbers. We walked around the letters in a circle to the music and when the music stopped they had to find a letter and quick! sit down!

We went fishing for letters and played shape bingo, too. Bingo winners got to pick a treasure from the treasure box.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Summer School Information

Summer School

Bri’s Bees Preschool will be holding a six week summer school program the last three weeks of June and the last three weeks of July, contingent upon student enrollment. Here is some information on our summer school program. Please let me know if you are interested!

Tuition:

$75.00 due the first class of each month

Dates & Hours:

Tuesdays and Thursdays June 11th- 27th

Tuesdays and Thursdays July 9th-25th

9:00am- 11:30pm

Program:

Summer school program will go as outlines:

9:00- 10:00: Learning Centers

Center 1: Worksheet Station: letters, numbers, patterns, and other worksheets

Center 2: Games Station: Candyland, Uno, Connect Four, and other fun learning games

Center 3: Art Station: cutting, gluing, coloring art projects

Center 4: Puzzles: shapes, letters, animals puzzles

10:00-10:30: Circle Time Preschool Curriculum

Sight Words

ABCs

Shapes

Numbers

Calendar

Weather

Singing

10:30- 10:45: Snack time

10:45- 11:10- Story Time

11:10- 11:30- Playtime

(Every other Thursday we will hold an outdoor activity that will involve getting wet! Sprinklers, water balloons, etc. You will need to bring a bathing suit and towel for your student on these days.)

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Our Earth

For the month of April we are studying "Our Earth." For the first two weeks we learned about where the continents are on the map. We discussed the differences between countries and states, continents, and oceans. The students worked each day on completing their own preschool map with all the continents. I'm amazed at how well they know them already! They have already perfected the continent and ocean song and we sing it everyday.

For the remainder of the month we are focusing on one continent during lesson time. For this focus we are using the continent boxes I put together (thank you for the idea pinterest!). We are having so much fun with these boxes! Students get to take turns coming up and picking something out of the box. Then they have to tell the class how they think that object relates to the continent we are learning about for the day. During art we are working on continent-coordinating projects like this shredded construction paper flag. I thought this was such a great idea to refine their fine motors skills but it took FOREVER to tear all of that paper!