EP Action! :)

 

Playing resaurant together and practicing  taking orders.

Playing stop and go while pretending to be different Montana animals!

 

We took another walk to the end of Alder St. to see the old train. We put our fingers on our lips when  crossing the street to remember to keep quiet so we can hear any cars coming our way. They do a great job!

Lunch on Thursday was a big hit! We had taco salad:

Have a wonderful weekend!

-The EP Class

This Week: Montana Animals!

The EP is learning all about Montana animals!  We are talking about which animals live here and which ones do not. What kind of animals we might find while we are camping or just out in are very own backyards! Also, what specific animals are native to Montana and which are our favorites and why!

This week we are making moose hats, we are painting paper plate turtles, and making beavers for our beaver home!

We made circle, square, and rectangle collages with Ms. Bev!

During Circle Time:

• Letter: Dd
• Color: Pink
• Shape: Star
• Rhyming words: Frog and Dog
• Counting up to: 27! (as of 9/27/11)

The EP has been going on nature walks looking for Montana animals!  Sometimes we get lucky and we get to see the train going by, which is so much fun for the kids. We see squirrels, many different types of MT birds and numerous types of flowers (Ms. Bev can name almost all of them!)

*Outside Pictures*

  

-The EP :)

This Week's Theme: "My Family"

The EP did a project this week with Ms Colleen about their family. They told the names of their mom, dad, and brothers and sisters if they had any. They glued and colored cut outs of their family members. The EP talked about the sizes of families and the different types of families that we can have. Explaining diversity and the special bond and love and care we all share in our families. 

• This weeks letter: Cc
• Rhyming words: hat and cat
• Color: Brown
• Shape: Rectangle
• Counting up to: 20!

A Great End to the Week

Ms. Julie led the EP class on Friday!
The kids did very well adapting to a semi-new face and did excellent listening and walking together on our short field trip around the block! We went to a big circle area near the train tracks and let them run in circles until they were falling down laughing and breathing hard from exhaustion. The held onto multi-colored rings and walked in a single file line with Julie at the front and Ms. Ashley following behind. We made sure to keep our fingers on our lips to remind us to keep quiet when crossing the street together.

*A sunflower bloomed in our garden! We are also growing, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, corn, squash, and more! (Which Ms. Stephanie, our chef, uses in our lunches!)

Ms. Julie brought old cartridges of film filled with different scents for the kids to smell. She showed the EP a squishy spider and poky shell and they talked about how they felt in their hands. She also brought bubble wrap that was donated by UPS on Broadway for the class to see, hear, and touch.  They went crazy popping all the bubbles.

In the afternoon we had tumble time. We have some great little gymnasts at our school!

Have a great weekend!!

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This Week the EP is Learning the 5 Senses!

This week the EP is learning what the five senses are: sight, taste, touch, hear, and smell! We have been showing pictures and reinforcing the senses by pointing to our very own eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and hands.  

This Thursday Ms. Colleen brought out the popcorn machine and we watched the popcorn with our eyes, heard it popping with our ears, we smelled the popcorn with our nose, and we tasted it with our mouths. The kids loved using all of their senses at once and are noticing they use their senses for many things.

Our art project this week was making our faces! The EP glued their hair, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, nose, ears, and hands onto a piece of construction paper.

Don't forget to take your art projects home on Friday!

At Circle Time We Are Learning:

• Letter of the Week: Bb
• inside our "B" bowl we showed the EP a boat, a basketball, a banana, a bottle, a bell, a bat, and the upper and lower case letter B!
• Shape of the Week: A Triangle
• Color of the Week: White
• Rhyming Words of the Week: Dog and Frog
• Pledge of Allegiance

We are also learning the seven days of the week. Each day we talk about what day it is and sing our song to help remember they days.
The EP class is counting and is up to 15!

A video of the kids playing music with Ms. Colleen:

We have been reading:

• The Itsy Bitsy Spider and also singing along!
• How Do You Sleep? by: Louise Bonnett- Rampersaud
• I'll Always Come Back! by: Steve Metzger
• Hide and Seek with Grover by: Jon Stone
• You and Me: We're Opposites by: Harriet Ziefert

The EP Kids in Action!

 From building skyscrapers... 

 ...to laughing with friends 

  ...to building sand castles and playing pretend.

 Making cookies...

 dressing up...

and learning things we will never forget.

Studying:

Books:

• Do's and Don'ts by Todd Rarr
• A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
• Moomin's Little Book of Words
• Grown Up by Nina Laden

Songs:

• Pledge of Allegiance 
• Popcorn Cleanup Song

The First Week of School

New faces and new friends and even new staff are now here at The Children's Center!  Mrs. Beverly,  is our new assistant Teacher for our ep (early preschool) class and Miss Ashley is our new aide.  



The kiddos are learning fast and adjusting well!  In the early preschool the children are learning each others names and learning the rules and the schedule of the classroom. They are learning to stay seated on their mats and how to share and talk nicely with friends.  We revisit manners and how to be polite and proper many times throughout the day to remind them and make it a good habit.  

The children are learning how to identify their names by their name tags placed where they are to be seated for breakfast and lunch. Everyday we are working on our gross motor skills, fine motor skills, drama/imagination, art, language, math, science and so much more!

The early preschool class is becoming more and more comfortable each day.  To see the children smiling, laughing, and learning is a blessing in disguise. Our childhood is so important in so many ways and The Children's Center is dedicated to making it a special and memorable experience.