Mrs. Schenck's Blog

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Our day at play!
Play is our work!

Why math activities are important in ELP.

 Dramatic play is popular and allows children to cook, role play as parents, practice doing chores and work cooperatively in a home like setting.

Children love to play instruments. They sing songs as they tap away on the xylophone. Working latches, strengthens hand muscles and develops fine motor skills. Thinking skills become meaningful while students work the bead maze. The shape sorter aids in hand eye coordination, while language skills are enriched as children learn the names of shapes.

Books allow children to relax and slow down, while the quietly look at books. They enjoy choosing a book for the teachers to read to them. Oral language and memory skills are practiced when they tell the story to other classmates. Boys and girls also learn the proper way to handle and turn pages of a book.

 Sharing.

 Building a tall tower.

 Working together

 Stacking flowers on a pole.

We are learning about church.

 We are also earning how to hold a crayon and color a picture.

 Learning names of objects, increases vocabulary,

 Thinking skills are formed when girls and boys match puzzle pieces to spaces.

 Sorting.

 Building.

 Drawing pictures with colored chalk.

 Painting. We learned how to load our brush with the right amount of paint. We also learned how to spread the paint within the lines of the picture.

Vegetables - color, shape, texture and taste.

 1 2 3 Looks what's missing.

 Down on the farm group mural on the magnetic board.

Marching - fast/slow,  quietly/loudly, in place and around the room.

Outdoor play.

Working latches, mazes and sorters.

Books of the day.

 Jesus time - things we see in church.

Big blue square mural.