Rainbow Room Preschool (Session 8)

Welcome to Preschool!  In this multi-day class we will cover all topics normally covered in a Preschool class.  In this session we will meet three times a week for four weeks.  By having this as a multi-day class, students will be able to form connections with other students and form a school community.  This is Session 8 but you don't need to have participated in other sessions to sign up; new students can join at any time!

This interactive class will be conducted in a Circle Time format.  In Circle Time, we'll learn by having fun singing songs, playing games, and moving around.  We'll focus on Literacy by reading books, singing the alphabet song, practicing letter recognition and beginning sounds, and working on pre-writing activities.  We'll focus on Math by working on number recognition, counting our friends, practicing one-to-one correspondence, pattern recognition, and sorting by shape/color/size.  We'll focus on Science by talking about the following topics and more: the weather, our 5 senses, magnets, sink or float, and nature.  Children learn through play, and sprinkled through all of our lessons will be many opportunities for music, movement, and play.

We'll also work on Social-Emotional development.  In preschool, children learn social skills like taking turns, listening to one another, and sharing.  They learn executive function skills like sitting still and following a routine.  They'll develop social-emotional skills like understanding that we're all different (and that's okay!), how to deal with big feelings, how to be a friend, and many more.

Our daily schedule will include: Welcome, Hello Song, Morning Message, Active Games and Songs, Story Time, and a Goodbye Song.  We'll have special activity days where we'll have dance parties, scavenger hunts, and Show and Tell. 

This is the eighth session in a series of 4-week sessions that together will make up a full school year.  The themes for these four weeks in 2022 are: 
- Week 1: Earth Day/Environmental Awareness
- Week 2: Forests and Bears
- Week 3: Families/Mother's Day
- Week 4: Feelings/Emotions

I look forward to welcoming your child to preschool!  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me ahead of time so that we can discuss them and ensure your children have an easy transition to class.

*All music and songs are used by permission from Dr. Jean Feldman.
*All read-aloud story books are read by permission from Macmillan Publishers, Candlewick Press, Free Spirit Publishing, or author Elizabeth Verdick.  
- These titles could include: all the Pout-Pout Fish titles written by Deborah Diesen, all the Counting Collection and First 100 and ABC Touch and Feel and Alphaprints books written by Roger Priddy, "At the Beach" written by Salina Yoon, "The Belly Book" by Fran Manushkin, "Building our House" by Jonathan Bean, Carl books by Alexandra Day, "Construction Crew" by Lynn Meltzer, "Edible Numbers" by Jennifer Vogel Bass, "How to Share with a Bear" by Eric Pinder, If Animals books by Anne Whitford Paul, "Music Class Today" by David Weinstone, "Some Monsters are Different" by David Milgrim, "This is my Home This is my School" by Jonathan Bean, "What the Ladybug Heard" by Julia Donaldson, and "You Belong" by Rachel Platten, "The Circus Ship Big Book" by Chris Van Dusen, "This is Not My Hat" by Jon Klassen, "Sam and Dave Dig a Hole" by Mac Barnett, "I love Animals Big Book" by Flora McDonnell, "Farmer Duck" by Martin Waddell, "Let's look at Dinosaurs" by Frances Barry, "Yucky Worms: Read and Wonder" by Vivian French and Jessica Ahlberg, "Full, Full, Full of Love" by Trish Cooke and Paul Howard, "I Hear" by Helen Oxbury, "Pearl goes to Preschool" by Lucy Cousins, "Some Dinosaurs are Small" by Charlotte Voake,"Play Day School Day" by Toni Yuly, "Baby goes to Market" by Atinuke, "Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Popup" by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart, "Digger Dozer Dumper" by Hope Vestergard and David Stonim,  "Library Lion" by Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes, "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram, "Randy Riley's Really Big Hit" by Chris Van Dusen, "A You're Adorable" by Martha Alexander, "Alan's Big Scary Teeth" by Jarvis, "My Friend Bear" by Jez Alborough, "Out and About: A First Book of Poems" by Shirely Hughes, "Mango, Abuela, and Me" by Meg Medina and Angela Dominguez, "We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Snowglobe Edition" by Michael Rosen, "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson, "There Might be Lobsters" by Carolyn Crimi, "Roadwork (Construction Crew)" by Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock, "Quiet Loud" by Leslie Patricelli, "Not Norman: A Goldfish Story" by Kelly Bennett and Noah Z. Jones, "Journey" by Aaron Becker, "Home" by Carson Ellis, "A Visitor for Bear" by Bonny Becker, "Interrupting Chicken" by David Ezra Stein, "Dot. For Pet's Sake", "Dot. Goes Fishing", "Peppa Pig and the Career Day", "Peppa Pig and the Silly Sniffles", "Peppa Pig and the Library Visit", "Peppa Pig and the Camping Trip", "Peppa Pig and the day at snowy mountain", and "Space Exploration: Panorama Pops".