CHALK!

Our Discovery activity this week involved making our own chalk!  Mrs. Henry shared a beautifully-illustrated, wordless book called Chalk.  Next, each child measured his/her own water and plaster of paris into a paper cup and, along with some coloring, mixed it together.  Today, we took our homemade chalk outside and enjoyed using it to draw on the sidewalk.  Children brought home their piece of homemade chalk!

ART CLASS 4-14-11

COMPUTER CLASS

This week in the Computer Lab, Mr. Mitchell found a butterfly life cycle video for us to watch; worked on numerical order; and enjoyed some free play on the computers.  When children were not in the computer lab, they worked on numeral writing on the SmartBoard with Mrs. Crain

SWIMMING CLASS-FRIDAY 4-8-11

The Pre-K children are doing extremely well with their comfort level in the water and learning basic swimming skills.  In Friday's swimming class, Mr. Yakscoe had the children jump in the shallow end (either with or without a flotation device for assistance) and swim to the other side.  We then did this same activity but in the deep end.  Everybody did it!  Children who were afraid to go in the deep end of the pool earlier this year, are now gaining confidence in being in the deep end of the pool.  We are so proud of their efforts!

HOMEMADE PRETZELS

Last week's cooking activity was making homemade pretzels!  We mixed together sugar, salt, flour, water, and yeast.  Then we kneaded the dough and shaped it.  We brushed them with butter and sprinkled on salt.  Then, we baked them and ate them for snack.  YUM!

 

  

ART CLASS 4-6-11

In today's art class, children had many opportunities/activities from which to choose, including fingerpainting, working with clay, scratch-art bookmarks, KidPix on the computer, drawing, and painting.  The photos below include examples of these activities.

Computer this week...

http://www.create-a-reader.com/basic/_english.html 

This is the link to the games that we played in computer class this week!

Have your child show you what he/she did on the game!

Have fun!