Preschool Newsletter
Week of April 26-30
Theme: Author Study: Eric Carle
Ms. Terri and Ms. Crystal
This week we became close, personal friends with author and illustrator Eric Carle. The children love his books and his artwork. We started the week by painting paper in different colors and giving our paper textures. Later in the week, we drew a fun animal and used the painted papers to make our animal, very similar to the way Mr. Carle makes the illustrations for his books. Our pictures can be seen above and on the wall when you sign in each morning.

Other highlights of our week included:
  • learning how to draw a star, dot painting the stars, cutting them out and creating a "night sky" picture.
  • Playing the "From Head to Toe" game
  • having a "snowball" fight in Fellowship Hall
We Learn Through Play!
  • This week we focused on letter Y. We glued yellow yarn on our Ys and we made a list of all the Y words we could think of. This one was tough!
  • We read books tons of books by Eric Carle.
  • We continued our Jolly Phonics letter songs and added letter Y.
  • We played in an Eric Carle sensory bin that contained all the parts of the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" as well as some rakes, tweezers, Easter grass and a copy of the book.
  • We drew faces on our sun like Eric Carle
  • We made Eric Carle characters with pattern blocks.
  • We did an Eric Carle bear maze.
  • We matched the number of animals to the correct numeral and clipped it with a clothespin (to strengthen those fine motor muscles).
  • We practiced writing numbers from 1-10.
  • We mixed paint colors to make new colors.
  • We learned about camouflage and searched for chameleons in our room.
  • We enjoyed large motor play outside when weather allowed but we also played in Fellowship hall.
This week our mystery reader was Ginny's brother Axel. He read "Puppets." You gave us some great ideas, Axel. Thanks for reading to us!!!

Important: We are still looking for more family members to read. Even if you've done it before, feel free to sign up again. The children love it and are so excited every week. Simply fill out the Virtual Guest Storytime form on the link below and return the form in your child's backpack.

Spanish Class w/ Ms. Kailey
This week Ms. Kailey introduced us to a Honduran-American author named Sulma Arzo-Brown. First, we watched a video where Sulma talks about her life and what she does. Then, we listened to her read her book (it is a bilingual book in Spanish and English) called ¡Pelo malo no existe! - Bad Hair Does Not Exist!.  You can enjoy both videos below.

We also spent some time drawing a picture of someone's hair. Some were crazy and some were serious but all were bueno!!!