Upcoming Dates and Announcements:
Save the Date: Ya’ll are invited to a rootin’ tootin’ good time!
Country Roads: Boots for Buses
September 21, 2024 6pm-9pm
WCDS Main Campus
Join us for an evening of BBQ, Boots, and Boogyin’. It’s the perfect chance for parents to mingle, get to know each other, and kick up their heels!
More details to come, so mark your calendars now. Yee Haw!
- Monday, September 2nd- LABOR DAY – NO SCHOOL
- Tuesday, September 3rd – 10:00 start – classrooms open at 9:20
- Scholastic Book Club Orders- Due Friday, September 6th https://orders.scholastic.com/YZXM9
- Please send in a picture of your family to be displayed in the classroom. These will be hanging by the door and the kiddos love sharing them with their friends!
- Friday, September 20th- All School 11:30 Dismissal
- Beforecare is available in the gym from 7:30- 8:20 and aftercare from 3:30-5:00.
- Teacher Email: mshah@wcdsedu.com, awolle@wcdsedu.com, aschultz@wcdsedu.com
A Look at Our Week:
How does it feel when someone is kind to you? And how about when someone is unkind? To help the children understand these feelings, we first gave them sandpaper and then a cotton ball. The sandpaper symbolizes the roughness of unkind words or actions, while the cotton ball represents the softness of kindness. Each child meticulously studied the two textures determining which they preferred.
How does it feel when someone is sandpaper?
Archie- I feeled sad.
Sydney- I feel angry.
Lily- rough
Romeo- scratchy
How does it feel when someone is a cotton ball?
Lily- I don’t feel sad.
Evelyn- it feels good.
Atticus- It feels like bananas. I like bananas!
Levi- (gave a thumbs up)
Next, we took a moment to create our preschool pledge. This is a promise that the children come up with themselves to help ensure our classroom remains a safe and kind place for everyone…Cotton Ball Vibes!
Our Preschool Pledge
Be Kind to Friends
Kind Hands
Nice Words
Listening Ears
Stay Together
Walking Feet Inside
Calm, Quiet Voices
To continue the conversation about feelings, The Color Monster introduced a monster that was feeling all the feels at once. These feelings all had their own unique color and The Color Monster was quite the colorful mess. His friend helped him sort them all out into jars: happy, angry, afraid, love, etc. and shared that it’s okay to feel all of these things! The children were then given their own jar to add their own feelings to. Using their tiny fingers and developing pincer grasp, they used pipettes to add a splash of colorful emotion to their jar. Some added red for love, while others saw it as mad. Happy was anything from yellow, silver, black, red, pink, or blue based on their unique perspective. Blue was a popular color and represented happy, angry and sad. One child saw green as calm!
Our week also brought fun sensory play and lots of sunshine. The children got to know our outdoor classroom space by exploring sensory provocations. You know the items you’d ordinarily throw in the recycling? Have you ever thought, hmmm…let’s paint it! Well, we have! The children were presented with a sensory wall of loose parts and recyclable materials and given brushes, sponges, and tempra paint to add color and their own personal touch to the wall. What about painting with matchbox cars? Black rolls of paper became the road and the tires dipped in paint showcased a new way to make marks! But, wait! What should we do with those paint-covered cars? Time to head to the carwash! Sensory bins filled with water and bubble foam made the cars squeaky clean!
To say it was a wonderful week in preschool is an understatement! We hope your weekend is filled with all the joys that come from spending time with your little ones!
-Meredith, Arden, and Airry
