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Brookfield Pre-Kindergarten

It's Banana's in Here... Learning with a Zoo Unit

Zoo – Even in the middle of winter, the children still love the zoo.  Over the holidays many of the children made use of the warmer weather to visit it.  Who would have guessed that our weather would be nice enough?  It did, however, make for some...

You Can't Catch Me... I'm The Gingerbread Boy!

Gingerbread – Although I try not to repeat units often, the children kept remembering our Gingerbread unit from last year and were very eager to learn with this as our theme.  Literacy – The entire unit was based around literacy, so it was very ea...

Bear-y Special Activities

Bears – The children were very excited to start learning about bears.  The possibilities for this unit were endless.  Much of what we did however made use of teddy bears we brought from home.  Art – We added a sensory experience to the art area as...

Go, Go, Go... A Transportation Unit

Art – We loved using cars to paint.  The children were eager to roll the cars in the paint and then onto paper.  As they painted, we noticed that all the wheels had different patterns on them.  Fine Motor – We found a great way to incorporating w...

Pumpkins and Halloween

Art – The most fun we had in art was miniature pumpkins.  We decorated them over multiple days.  First, we painted them with a variety of paint colors.  The next day we added glitter and rhinestones to them.  They all turned our beautifully!     ...

All About Apples

Apples are the perfect basis for our learning this early fall.  Many of the children have been taking trips to the orchard, so it is great to tie these experiences with our time at school.  Here are some of the highlights for our unit… Math – We w...

If You Give a Mouse A Cookie...

We continued using the Expanding Expression program this morning to describe things.  This morning we read If You Give A Mouse a Cookie.  We enjoyed using Eetchy to help us describe a chocolate chip cookie.  One child also brought in a very fittin...

Fall Harvest

We are just finishing with our garden for the season.  The children have really loved the experience.  I think their favorite part has been harvesting the plants.  This week we finally picked our watermelon.  Since we planted it further away from ...

All About Me – Names, Birthdays, Hands, And More

With classroom transitions, it was a fantastic time to get to know each other a little bit better.  We spent most of September with this unit.  Here are just some of the highlights… Math – We did a comparative measurement math activity. The childr...

Yoga in the Classroom

This week the four year olds are focusing on the letter Ss.  To add movement to our learning, we started doing yoga positions that correspond with the letter of the week.  Today we posed like sharks, swans, and a slide.  All the poses are from the...

Recalls and Safety