First Day 2009

Here are a few photos from the the first day of preschool.

Kids found their way through the activities in the classroom and outside.

Some worked on puzzles.

At science, they explored the attraction of magnets to each other and to some metal objects. There were a lot of choices in blocks and manipulatives. Kids were making buildings, playing with the bucket of dogs, and rolling toy cars down the road map on the floor.

Outside, they tried the balance beam, learned how to descend the fire pole, went swinging across the monkey bars, and playing on the different structures with slides and climbers.

At small group time, everyone made a cut out of their hand in fall colors. Then, we put those cut outs on the classroom tree to be fall leaves.

We spent the rest of the day learning the routine and rules at school. Students learned about how the job chart works and how to sit, listen and take turns talking at meeting time. They found their special spaces: their coat hooks and cubbies. Everyone had a chance to write in their own name practice book.

We are just beginning to learn about each other and we are all working on learning the names of our new friends.