Hold the phone!

Has your child ever seen an "old fashioned" telephone with a rotary dial?! :)  Some of the kids don't even have push button phones in their homes.  They only know cell phones!  Every once in a while one of the kids will pick up a block and hold it up to their ears to make a call - that makes the teachers giggle as much as the rotary phones make the kids giggle!  Can I take a message? :)  And in case you were wondering, when the kids "call" someone on the phone, it is usually Mom, Dad or to order pizza....

Making patterns

Patterns are a basic building block of math skills.  Our number system itself is based on a pattern.  We talk about patterns all the time at preschool but the concept doesn't really make sense for quite a while.  The idea that something has to stay the same and repeat over and over forever is a tough one because they can't see the forever part.  When they can tell me a pattern, show me a pattern and reproduce a pattern, then I know the concept is taking hold in their minds.  In these pictures, the pre-k kids are making their own AB patterns from unifix cubes, saying them out loud and then recording them on paper - and with that, they are one step closer to being math geniuses!

 

Water table

Sometimes it's just fun to play in the water...and as an added bonus, the play kitchen dishes all got a washing!  That's just good, clean fun. :)