Blasting off to new heights
3/29/2019
Children in EKC this week were certainly fueled up for learning. They began the week putting the finishing touches to our role play area. They used their reading and writing skills to make labels and signs to help them with using the space center. Favorite elements of this area are the rock exploration zone and the control panel. Using our recycled items they enjoyed making the buttons and dials for the controls. After having heard that our new friend "Crashy" had crash landed at Fred Myers, the children went outside to find pieces of space rock all around. We were not sure if these we safe to handle so placed them in the safety box for close examination. Some excellent language development and collaboration has been happening as they work together as a team of astronauts. In addition to the literacy and language skills, maths skills are also incidentally occurring everyday, they are dialing numbers to call mission control, checking their weight to prepare for the space flight and measuring themselves for their space suits. Discovering whether a book is fiction or non-fiction has been one of the children's interests this week. Keen to write like the authors we have been reading from, they have set about making their own books. Using both phonic knowledge and being resourceful learners using their key word cards, they are now able to compose their own sentences. We look forward to completing this ongoing project in the coming week. Creating Craters!It was a pleasure to welcome a family visitor to our class at the end of the week. Ms Sheryl was able to share some superb knowledge with the children about the moon, before launching them off on a discovery experiment to create their own craters in the moon dust! What a marvelously messy but totally wonderful learning experience for the children. Seeing the impact the different objects had in the "moon dust" was very exciting, and they were learning key facts along the way. Other pics from the week...
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Sheryl Sotelo
3/29/2019 11:11:04 pm
I enjoyed visiting the PNA preschool today - what an enthusiastic and fun group of students. I loved meeting you and learning about the moon together! Special thanks to your teachers for being such good sports about the messy activity! 😊
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Melissa SmithMs. Smith has a degree in Early Childhood Education and has taught kindergarten for many years. Alaska has been home to Ms. Smith for 28 years, and she can't imagine living anywhere else! She has four children, a dog and two cats. She loves reading, camping, gardening, and genealogy! Archives
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