What a day!
Our regularly scheduled day was upset by the power outage today! Miss Jamie's classroom was too dark to hold class in so we had to improvise. Lucky for us the windows at the school kept the school lit up pretty nicely and the sun shining in kept us warm. We had thought we could go all day, until the water started drying up in the bathrooms! Right around this time, the teachers started getting calls from their own kids at school asking to be checked out. So, Miss Jamie made the call to cancel the Afternoon session.
Of course immediately following the last call/text sent out - the lights came back on. Figures. We are looking at having a make up day for the Afternoon session and will let you know what we come up with. Meanwhile...
We focused on the Letter U/Uh So Sad sound today...
We teach this with a simple little activity. We build up a block tower and when it comes crashing down (while we are trying so hard to carefully place the tippy-top piece on) we exclaim "Uh...so sad"! Then we have the kids chant along with us, "Uh... So sad".
Yesterday's rainstorm was a perfect segue into our UMBRELLA theme today. We got to paint using our breath and straws today. The kids loved blowing through their straws and watching the watery blue paint (aka rain) spread across the paper. Then we decorated our umbrellas and added them (along with our straw, as the handle) to get the finished product!
Today was a little chaotic (too much play time is TOO MUCH, even for the kids believe it or not), but we learned a few things and will be incorporating them into our emergency plan. Number one being that we do not have enough water on hand. Miss Jamie will be making a trip to the store for bottled water soon, and maybe a 5 gallon or two for storage (toilet flushing is pretty high up on a preschoolers priority list). :) The second thing I will be buying is BATTERIES for the CD players - the kids were really annoyed that we couldn't just plug them in and play our music as usual. Other than that, the kids didn't really seem to mind that the lights were out.
Of course immediately following the last call/text sent out - the lights came back on. Figures. We are looking at having a make up day for the Afternoon session and will let you know what we come up with. Meanwhile...
We focused on the Letter U/Uh So Sad sound today...
We teach this with a simple little activity. We build up a block tower and when it comes crashing down (while we are trying so hard to carefully place the tippy-top piece on) we exclaim "Uh...so sad"! Then we have the kids chant along with us, "Uh... So sad".
Yesterday's rainstorm was a perfect segue into our UMBRELLA theme today. We got to paint using our breath and straws today. The kids loved blowing through their straws and watching the watery blue paint (aka rain) spread across the paper. Then we decorated our umbrellas and added them (along with our straw, as the handle) to get the finished product!
Today was a little chaotic (too much play time is TOO MUCH, even for the kids believe it or not), but we learned a few things and will be incorporating them into our emergency plan. Number one being that we do not have enough water on hand. Miss Jamie will be making a trip to the store for bottled water soon, and maybe a 5 gallon or two for storage (toilet flushing is pretty high up on a preschoolers priority list). :) The second thing I will be buying is BATTERIES for the CD players - the kids were really annoyed that we couldn't just plug them in and play our music as usual. Other than that, the kids didn't really seem to mind that the lights were out.
Thank you for planning a make up session for the afternoon class! :) I appreciate all the work put into each class day. Celeste loves it!
ReplyDeleteBirgitta Perrins
Tenley spent all of bath time thinking of words that have the "Uh, so sad" sound. :) "Under! Up! Cup- hey that has it in the middle!" She is so excited to be learning to read. :) Thanks Miss Jamie!
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