Adventures In WES Preschool!

An Exciting Day! What a fun day we've had.  It started by having the 2nd graders visit our classroom and read with our preschoolers.  The second graders had practiced reading the books that they brought and did a fantastic job reading. Later in the morning, we noticed that the quails have started to hatch.  Over the next several days we will hopefully have several baby quails in our classroom. Just before lunch, a dinosaur visited our classroom!  Who knew that there were dinosaurs still living around here. And to top off an already great day, Evan joined us in the afternoon.  

A Special Lesson from VINS Last week, Hannah, an educator from VINS, visited our classroom for the second time this year and taught the students about the 5 senses.  Hannah has a wonderful way of bringing music and excitement into the classroom.  Through animal puppets, she talked about hearing, smelling, seeing, tasting, and feeling.  The class learned how all of these senses are important to animals and their survival.  In addition to songs and several short puppet shows, Hannah had several activities for the student to do that helped them understand more about the 5 senses and animal survival.     After talking about owls and the senses they use to hunt, the students were allowed to see and feel a real owl claw and owl wing.         Feeling We played a game where the students put their hands into three different cans which they couldn't see inside of and then had to describe and guess what was in each can. The students were then each ...