Ms. Small and Ms. Lawrence's Pre-K Class 2020-2021: September 29th 2020

Yesterday afternoon inspired by the book The perfect square by Michael Hall some of the class cut up squares of paper and used them to create pictures. I left the materials out this morning so friends that didn't get the chance to make one, or don't attend in the afternoon could try using the hole punchers and fancy scissors which we introduced for the first time.

There has been a lot of interest in play-doh the last couple of days. I put the geometric shape cutters away and replaced them with our leaf, pumpkin and acorn shaped cookie cutters.

Games were another popular choice today. Zingo! and Chomp amongst them, as well as many other work choices. There are times I look at the photo's and surprise myself with how much we achieve in one morning.

We surprised Mr. Billadeau by singing Happy Birthday to him. I placed a question mark where his age should be.

The book we read today was Family by Isabell Monk. I love this book as it helps us move our conversations about ourselves and our families seamlessly to families and communities coming together, to cook, eat and enjoy each others company.

At this time of year we start to talk about cooking together as a Community. Normally we would have already had our first field trip to the Farmer's market. Instead, we have arranged the second best thing. On Friday for storyteller time Mr. Andrews will share a video of himself at the Farmer's market choosing lots of different vegetables. On the following Monday we will have those vegetables in our classroom and discuss what we can cook with the food. Our first cooking project is usually always soup, and I have already told the class we will make Stone soup. This will be the first of many cooking projects over the year.

After P.E. we weighed our pumpkin. Mr. Goeddeke the Kindergarten teacher let us use his scales. Friends tried to lift it, noticing how hard it was and the sound it made when you hit it.

WOW! a whopping 15 pounds.

When we got outside sa few students started creating stone soup in the sand area. Farrah kept telling us it was missing something, and it tasted terrible. Everyone started to think of different vegetables, and herbs to add to the pot. Finding leaves, acorns and sand to represent the vegetables. Farrah suddenly realized what we had forgot. "The onion and garlic." You always need onion and garlic in your soup.

I just love the imaginative abilities of 4 and 5 year olds.