Clough Pike Preschool: Updates

We have been very busy (like always) these last couple weeks. We have focused our learning all about the Market and food. We have read the book, To Market To Market by Anne Miranda. It's a very funny story with amazing illustrations. The best part is that the students don't realize how much they are learning while we read it. It's a rhyming story and introduces and reinforces great vocabulary. It also serves as a great book to ask simple wh and complex wh questions. I found it on amazon for $6 and I strongly recommend it.

We have also been busy introducing our theme in other ways such as stringing with pasta (fine motor skills), grocery store in our dramatic play center, painting with vegetables, exploring food with our 5 senses and so much more. When it is too cold to go outside we make use of the awesome rock wall in our gym, ride our trikes through the school, and even scooter board through the halls. We also have a motor room where we can use our gross motor skills.

If you signed up to go on our field trip to the Children's Museum you will be receiving a letter very soon.

We have been writing grocery lists for our class grocery store. Feel free to have your child help you the next time you write a list for shopping. He could write on your list or even keep his own list for the store. It's a great way to teach the purpose of writing. Remember that your child is a preschooler and developmentally may still be scribbling. Scribbling to writing letters is acceptable and encouraged. The more enjoyable we make it the more progress your child will have. We always model proper letter and word formation and before we know it the students are doing the same.

Please enjoy some recent photos.