This Week In Escuelita

Music
ART
Science
Self Identity
Sensory 



Greetings from Escuelita!

It was wonderful to see so many families come out for our back to school night on Thursday, thank you for supporting us!

We use our senses to navigate our world, and this is especially true in the sensory-motor stage of preschool. Our amazing bodies have eyes that see, ears that hear, noses that smell, mouths that taste, and hands that feel! In Escuelita this week, we have been talking about our selves and learning about each other- about who we are and what we can do. We can do so many things!

In art, we sang about our heads, shoulders, knees and toes, counted fingers, and played games-manos arriba! We observed our hands, and noticed our ten fingers, fingernails, palms, knuckles, the lines on our hands, and our fingerprints. We talked about all the things our hands can do-hold, tickle, clap, draw, paint, squish play-doh, make sounds, shake, high five...(check out our bulletin board for more!) We looked carefully at paintings and saw people using their hands to work, to carry, to play an instrument, to stroke a pet, to  hold a baby... We pressed our hands in colorful ink and onto paper to create hand print art and traced our hands with pastels. We also used our hands to make paintings, drawings, and mold play dough!

In Science we have been talking about self identity: What we know about ourselves and also about growth. The remembered self incorporates all of the memories the child has about his or herself. This information becomes the child's story of "Then and now."  We talked about growth and the essential & necessary things that we need to grow. This is what they came up with: 

"I need water." 

"I need my mommy."

"I need food."

"My brother needs milk."

Teacher Can gave interviews-What do we know about ourselves?

Who are you? Where are you from? Where do you live? What kind of things do you like? Check out the Science bulletin board for these dynamic interviews!

We will continue these self-discovery studies this week, exploring what we hear with our ears. Please feel free to send in items that might help us explore sounds/music from home that your child can share with us at circle time. 

Enjoy the day!

Maestras Sonja y Can

                     Enjoy these pictures of our second week: