Last Week's Learning - Oct. 20th - 24th

Last Week’s Highlights

October 20-24

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIAUNA!

GREY SQUIRREL

Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel, swish your bushy tail.

Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel, swish your bushy tail.

Wrinkle up your little nose, put a nut between your toes,

Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel, swish your bushy tail.

Last week Preschool Scholars studied acorns and learned many interesting facts:

• Acorns grow on Oak trees
• Acorns are HARVESTED by animals in the autumn and stored for winter snacks
• Acorns have two parts, a CAP and a NUT
• Acorns have one edible part (the NUT)
• Acorns have a round SPHERE shape with a point

After counting and sorting a collection of ACORNS, CHEFS prepared BALLS - ACORN ENERGY BALLS and used their vivid imaginations to transform into Squirrels, Chipmunks and Mice!

 

5 Reasons RES PRESCHOOL SCHOLARS Like To Cook!

1.  Literacy

When we cook we learn new vocabulary and reading the recipe teaches us about one of the important purposes of literacy – to gather instruction and information.  NEW WORDS: CHEF, APRON, MIXTURE, CHILL, VANILLA, FLAX SEED

      

2. Food knowledge

Cooking provides us with an opportunity to talk about different types of food and nutrition. It also encourages us to be more adventurous when it comes to trying new food! HONEY is sticky and is made by bees, VANILLA smells good and comes from a bean and SUNBUTTER is thick and comes from sunflowers!

      

3. Motor skills

STIRRING, POURING and ROLLING – all of these cooking processes provide us with an opportunity to develop physical skills – both fine (fingers, hands and coordination) and gross (arm and body) motor skills.

 

4. Mathematical concepts

Cooking provides us with hands-on math skills such as MEASUREMENT, NUMBER and SEQUENCING . First, we added dry ingredients to a bowl and then we added wet ingredients!

   

5. Self esteem

We feel a real sense of achievement when we have the opportunity to share food that we have prepared with family and friends! We hope you enjoyed our ACORN ENERGY BALLS!:)

A FAREWELL TO VERMONT’S FOLIAGE

Last week’s wind and rain storms caused most of the bright FOLIAGE to drop to the ground however, preschool ARTIST painted maple and oak leaves and later printed them to keep forever!  

  

Next Week’s Learning

Oct 27-31

AUTUMN IS A PERFECT TIME TO CELEBRATE THE CONCEPTS OF LIGHT AND DARK. Harvest moon and Jack-o-lantern ACTIVITIES WILL GUIDE MANY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS!

This week, Scholars will be creating their own HARVEST Lanterns.  Lanterns will be lit and used while reading this week’s featured book!

Lanterns will be brought home to share with families!

Featured BOOK:

Possum’s HARVEST MOON by Anne Hunter

                                  

PUMPKIN SONG

I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN, I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN,

AND WHAT DID I FIND? WHAT DID I FIND?

LITTLE SEEDS A SPROUTING, LITTLE SEEDS A SPROUTING,

ON THE PUMPKIN VINE, ON THE PUMPKIN VINE.

I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN, I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN,

AND WHAT DID I FIND? WHAT DID I FIND?

GREEN LEAVES A GROWIN, GREEN LEAVES A GROWIN,

ON THE PUMPKIN VINE, ON THE PUMPKIN VINE.

I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN,  I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN,

AND WHAT DID I FIND? WHAT DID I FIND?

YELLOW FLOWERS BLOOMING, YELLOW FLOWERS BLOOMING,

ON THE PUMPKIN VINE, ON THE PUMPKIN VINE.

I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN, I LOOKED IN MY GARDEN,

AND WHAT DID I FIND? WHAT DID I FIND?

BIG ORANGE PUMPKINS,BIG ORANGE PUMPKINS,

ON A PUMPKIN VINE, ON A PUMPKIN VINE!

Healthy Preschoolers will celebrate the beginning of a new month (November) by receiving and eating sweet, delicious, ORANGE pumpkins (tangerines).