Wednesday, May 27 is the last day of school! It is an early release day.
Students are officially dismissed from school at 1:15 PM.
Carpool vehicles will be allowed on the Spoede lot at 1:00 PM. Please share this information with anyone who will be picking up students via carpool.
If you need to pick your child up early, please do so before 12:45 PM.
Dear Spoede Pre-K Families,
The last two weeks have been busy and filled with lots of end of the year activities assigned over a short period of time. The students handled all of the excitement very well. This is a DOUBLE Blog, covering the last two weeks. I will send a quick Blog covering the last two days of this week. If you have any pictures of the End of the Year Party, please send and I will add them to this weeks Blog. This has been a great year and I hope you have enjoyed the pictures and the information. I hope you all have a great summer. Feel free to continue to send pictures of fun things you do this summer. I love seeing the pictures.
Part 1
Monday, May 11: We had a Monday share and talked about what we liked the best about this year in Pre-K. We did a matching activity where we glued the correct numeral under the correct number of Ice Cream Scoops. We also sorted animals that lived in the sea and that lived on land. We also painted watermelon seeds onto a slice of watermelon. The seeds matched the numeral on the slice.
Tuesday, May 12: We Dot Painted a beach ball, water colored Rainbow fish and finished up some Ice Cream Scoop counting and other ocean projects throughout the unit. In music with Mrs. Nutt, used several different instruments to work on different rhythms.
Wednesday, May 13: We added glued and silver glitter for our Rainbow Fish. We made starfish. First the students cut out the star, then we added Cheerios and glitter with glue. to add texture to the starfish. We also cut watermelon pieces with seeds having a certain number and had to glue to the correct numeral.
Thursday, May 14: We finished up our Starfish and painted our clams. The starfish were with glitter and Cheerio Textures and the Clams were made out of egg cartons, painted with pink. We will complete them with google eyes, a mouth, and glued in a puff ball pearl once they are dried. We also made jelly fish by tracing the outline with Elmer's glue, and then adding salt. Finally, touching the salt with watercolor paint for the final colorful effect.
Friday, May 15: Spoede Senior Walk Through and parade. Painted our textured clay sculptures with dot paints and added a decorated hanger made our of colored noodles and painted cardboard shapes. Fifth Grade Visitors brought us our felt Monsters that they made. The 5th Graders turned pictures of monsters drawn by Pre-K students into 3D monsters made out of felt. Mrs. Schreiner's 2nd Grade Idea Lab students made prototype arcade games that the Pre-K Students were invited to try and give feedback based on the level of fun and challenge in each game. Tickets were handed out by the engineers of each game based on participation of the Pre-K Students. Parents of the students who designed the games were also in attendance.
Part 2
Monday, May 18: Played with sticky playfoam balls. Made some decorated some slime. Made handprint crabs with google eyes glued on the thumbs
Tuesday, May 19: Enjoyed a fun morning of pajamas and show and tell. Most of the students have much more confidence in public speaking. Some are still a work in progress. Students had a chance to share their toys in cooperative play. We had free choice centers. In music with Mrs. Nutt, we sang and danced with a parachute.
Wednesday, May 20: During a read aloud of Big Book Pretend You're a Cat, had the students acting out the Animal Movements along with the students in the book. "Pretend You're a Cat is a 1990 children's book by Jean Marzollo, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, featuring 13 rhyming poems that encourage kids to imitate animals like cats, dogs, and seals through movement and imagination. The book uses simple, repetitive verses and vibrant illustrations to get young readers to act out the actions of different creatures, making it an interactive and fun read for preschoolers and early elementary students."
We marble painted fish with lots of vibrant colors. We also glued multi-colored tissue paper to make popsicles on a stick. Used stickers to represent ice cream scoops on top of numbered cones in random order from 1 - 10.
Thursday, May 21: Started out day celebrating Khaza's birthday. By 9:30, we had started our Spoede Pre-K End of the year party. Students had a great time and we had a great representation of parents who joined us in the fun. We had a bubble machine and sporting equipment brought by Hallie's mom and individual bubble wands by Conor's Mom, sidewalk chalk by several parents, and some field day type sporting equipment set up for us by Coach Williams. Nico's family let us borrow their Party Tent which added some great shade. Music was provided by Rose's Mom who played some great tunes for dancing. We thank everyone for their participation. Around 10:15 we had snack on our towels, picnic style. By 11:00, we had Costco Pizza delivered and by 11:30 we were happily eating Kona Ice. All in all, it was a fabulous day. "Best Day Ever!" was heard quoted by several Pre-K students.
Friday, May 22: We had make up project day. We made bead bracelets on pipe cleaners. Students made patterns with the beads and bracelets with their first initial in the middle until supplies ran out. We worked on a Build and Ocean project and started to complete our last art project we started with Ms. Tara, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Designed with Model Magic and created lots of cool things.
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