1000 Visitors!!!!!!

Today the Pre-K Blog counter hit 1000! This means the blog has been visited 1000 times! Thank you for visiting the blog and keeping this exciting window into the classroom going. Seeing that counter increase lets me know that people want to know what is happening in Pre-k and that keeps new content coming! You can make the blog even more interactive by posting comments below entries. You can post comments about activities you especially liked, questions about the curriculum you have, or even your daughter's comment about the entry. We would love to hear what you have to say. Take the blog to the next level - two way communication!

PS - for those wondering, my visits do not count so it is a true count :)

Sometimes technology just does not cooperate. Teresa and I have discovered the joy of catching video by using the imovie application on our laptops. This allows us to capture footage of play, journal time, and other activities without us physically holding a camera, freeing us up to work with the girls. This footage is helpful in so many ways. We can observe how your daughters are solving problems, resolving conflicts, creating masterpieces, and thinking out loud when we are not right by our side. This is incredibly helpful both for curriculum development as well as as another means for us to get to know and understand your daughter on an even deeper level. Well, as I earlier stated, sometimes technology just doesn't fully cooperate. We captured some of your daughters delighting in the challenge of using various cups to build structures. Hiccup #1, for some reason the sound was not captured. Hiccup #2, imovie would not allow me to edit the raw footage, Hiccup #3, When I uploaded the raw footage to blogger it is reading it on some sort of fast forward so seven minutes of footage is now a little more than two. Maybe this is all for the best in some way because the lack of sound protects your ears from the extremely high pitched shrieks of delight as structures were built and toppled and the fast forward helps you see the whole scenario quickly. I just had to put this up on the blog despite all of the problems because the joy in the girls is still so evident and the collaboration and problem solving of the exploration just epitomizes what you daughters are doing each day at Springside. Enjoy!

Abigail's Report

Abigail was the first to use our smaller Nikon coolpix camera for her reporting. She was thrilled to take pictures of important things happening in her classroom.


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CHASS - Valentine's Day

The Calm Down Song

Ask your daughter how calm bunny and impulsive puppy teach us how to manage our feelings.

Ice Day

Beautiful Snow

Rockhopper Penguins

One of the species of penguins we have been studying are Rockhopper Penguins. We have read about them in books and on wikipedia and have compared them to other penguins. In this video you see us acting like Rockhopper Penguins, hopping from rock to rock. We are also working on number recognition and ordering of numbers. You can hear girls counting as they hop. We also played this song and froze when the music stopped. Then we identified what number we were on. As we cleaned up the "rocks" I sent girls to retrieve rocks with a certain number. We gained a ton of math practice while having fun being penguins.