Mrs. Rachel's Three's Class: St. Patrick's Day (and more)!

I am already missing these sweet friends. While the weeks/months ahead are uncertain for everyone, I pray that all of you are staying well, getting some time together, and feeling God's peace. I myself am praying for each of your families. If there is absolutely anything that Mrs. Katie or I can do to be there for your families, please know we are here. Also, with uncertainty of when school will return, I will be making a blog post each week that we are out with some activities and ideas that you can do at home if you are able and are looking for things to keep your sweet one learning! The first list of ideas will be at the end of this post. :)

As far as last week, we enjoyed another fun week in our class! We combined a few themes this week, focusing on how God wants us to all show kindness to one another as friends and also doing some fun St. Patrick's Day activities. We truly have so many sweet friends in our class!

We read a variety of books this week, both St. Patrick's Day and friendship-themed. We played several fun shamrock games to practice/write our numbers and letters. We also did a fun Skittle color sort. Everyone is really progressing with all of those skills! To go along with our St. Patrick's Day theme, we made Fruit Loop rainbows and even Skittle rainbows!

We learned through several crafts this week as well! Everyone made a shamrock mosaic independently, as well as dotted their own pot of gold... "If I found a leprechaun's pot of gold, I would buy a ____." (Some of these were quite funny and were saved for portfolios!) We also had a lot of fun making our own leprechaun puppet to take home!

We continue to do a great job in the green room! This week, we added in a little fun with our letter rainbow! We stomped and jumped on each colored letter, focusing on the color pattern of the rainbow. One of the highlights of our week was going on our leprechaun scavenger hunt... He sure was a sneaky little guy!

I sure hope to see these sweet smiles again soon.

Make sure to enjoy some time together with this week officially being "spring break". However, here are some ideas for this week you might could do at home!

1. Go on a letter or number search in your yard. (I am doing this with my daughter using Easter eggs for early egg hunting!)

2. Make a rainbow using chalk together and see if your child can remember the order of the colors of the rainbow. Maybe add in jumping on the colors, writing the letter each color starts with, and writing each number as you count the colors.

3. Challenge yourself to read 3 books together each day! In your book bag from our class, you will find a great list of activities that you can do while reading these books.

4. Make a note/card to send to a friend you know and have your child write their name by himself (herself). If support is needed, we like to use a highlighter and them let them trace over that.

5. Continue the "Follow Jesus" theme together, choosing another character in the New Testament who Jesus called. Here is a link to the fantastic website that the preschool follows: https://www.nhckidstime.com/copy-of-sprouts-parent-resources We didn't do the stories for the last two weeks of March.