With the beginning of our new unit on Imagination, the students’ ideas and creativity have run wild! With integrations from music and art, they have been really learning about how they can express themselves in different ways through the use of their imaginations. In art, the students created their own Superheroes along with super powers, background stories, and masks! Great job, preschool 5 superheroes! 😀

The preschool 5 have been doing a great job experimenting and learning about Light and Shadow. They have learned about the Scientific Method steps to conducting their own experiments and have been showing the knowledge they have gained through the experiments. They have learned that light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow and that light is important because it gives us heat, energy, and helps us to see! Keep up the great work, Bunnies and Ninja Turtles.

Preschool 5 have been doing a great job exploring measuring with non-standard units of measurement. The students have been developing a concept of length through exploration, discussion and using appropriate vocabulary. The children have estimated, measured and recorded the length of various objects using lollipop sticks, buttons, cubes, counters, themselves, the footsteps and many other non-standards units. Keep up the great work Bunnies and Ninja Turtles!

This week the Brilliant Bunnies and the Ninja Turtles had their first session of buddy reading with the students from grade 3. Each child was paired with a student from grade 3, and they took turns reading to each other. The Brilliant Bunnies and the Ninja Turtles had a lot of fun and really enjoyed displaying their fantastic literacy skills with their new buddies! 🙂

Listening to older students read will help develop a love of reading and a greater motivation to read among the Preschool 5 students. By reading to their older buddies each week, the younger students will develop a sense of accomplishment while they build fluency. Buddy reading provides success in literacy, which encourages all students to become more positive about their ability to read and will also improve reading skills.

The children in Preschool 5 have been having lots of fun working with numbers. The children are enjoying counting forwards, backwards, and counting on. They are working hard in small groups practicing to recognize and order numbers, and also matching numerals to the correct amount.  They are enjoying playing games which help them to recognize amounts in a set, and to combine and separate sets.

Preschool 5 is well into our new unit on Relationships. We will talk about the different types of relationships we have with people, beginning with friendships. Both preschool 5 classes are learning about how to make and keep friends. By participating in the Friendship Challenge, students are practicing being open-minded, playing with and respecting their classmates. Keep up the great work, Preschool 5!