Miss Stacey's Preschool Classroom: March 10-14

I hope that everyone is enjoying their spring break! For those of us stuck in Iowa, I'm glad we at least had a few days of nice spring weather. Last week we worked on the letter Kk and continued to review our numbers. The students have also been doing such a good job deciding if the weather is a lion or lamb day at school. One of our small groups last week was to make a lion or lamb mask. I'm sure you'll enjoy the pictures of that below! Our second small group was a sorting activity. Even though St. Patrick's Day landed on our spring break, we decided to celebrate it this week. So what a better way to sort than with Lucky Charms! Their favorite part, of course, was munching on some after they finished. The last small group focused on teaching some social-emotional skills by talking about emotions. We focused on sad, mad, happy, and frustrated. The students were able to come up with stories and then ask their friends how they would feel if that happened. They are pretty creative little story tellers! Next week we will look at some more complex emotions (nervous, embarrassed, proud, etc.).

Our big highlight of the week was when the leprechauns came to visit on Friday! I'm so sorry that the videos I sent are not working. I'm still trying to figure out how I can send such a large file to you all. They had so much fun and were so funny to watch when we came back to our room after a bathroom break and the "leprechauns" messed the whole room up, set our Lucky Charms for snack, sprinkled glitter, and left footprints all around. We tried our best to make sure they all knew it was just something silly and fun so I sure hope no one went home scared of leprechauns!!! Miss Melissa made some Irish soda bread for us to try for snack and we even tried to do an Irish jig. It was a fun way to end our week before spring break.

Now that spring break is over, I feel like time is going to go too fast! There are only six more weeks until Tulip Time! Preschool does march with the school kids in the parades and this year the morning class will march in the Thursday afternoon parade and the afternoon class will march in the Saturday afternoon parade. There will be more information to come as the time gets closer. School will dismiss at 11:15 on May 1&2 and there will be no afternoon preschool on those days. Also, kindergarten round-up is near. Madison's kindergarten round up will be on April 10th and Lincoln's pre-k/kindergarten round-up will be on April 11th. On April 18th (Good Friday) there will be no school. Lots of important days ahead. Let me know if you have any questions!

Practicing our emotion cards