Thursday, September 23, 2021

Bees

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

It's 100 Wednesday

 

We love to count at MCP.  We will be introducing and practicing counting to 100 and counting by 10's.  Want to do more at home?


Monday, September 20, 2021

We Are Busy Bees at MCP

It's Letter B week. We'll decorate our letter B.  Does your child notice a pattern?

There are so many ways to count in our classroom.  Put the children in the bus, have a teacher check and press 'the easy button.'


 

 

A to Z

 Every Monday we learn a new letter and stack our LEGOS from A to Z!  Awesome!


Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Paint, Paper and Paste-arts & crafts

Arts and crafts are a very important part of our program at MCP.  The two are also very different.  Art is open ended.  We have crayons, markers, scissors, glue, cardboard and much more in our art center so the children have an opportunity to be creative on their own. 

Crafts are about listening and following teacher directions. 

Crafts are done as a group at the tables with the teacher giving directions.  We use this opportunity to work on colors, shapes and spatial relationships (inside, between, top, bottom, etc.).  We also are working very hard on listening to teacher directions.  

If your child's craft does not look like a bear, a flower, a pumpkin or whatever---no worries.  We are just starting the year. We know sitting with friends with colorful paper and a bottle of glue is hard.  The children are learning how to use an appropriate amount of glue, how to pick up sticky gluey pieces and soon we will be cutting & snipping shapes together.  Please note---we do not move or relocate pieces that the children place incorrectly. Your child's work is their work.  We are working really hard on listening to teacher directions as a group.

For more information on why art is important-