E's Preschool Recap

E's teacher sends parents a recap of what they did in class every day. This is awesome because I get to read what he was up to while away from me, get an idea of what he learned, and know that if a teacher cared enough to send a lengthy email like this, that she cares an awful lot for my child too. E loves school... and I see why after reading this day's recap:

"Today the children quickly noticed that the room was changed over. We will be modeling our play from many of the things from the story The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. In the story a little boy named Peter wakes up to a very snowy day. He goes on many adventures and comes back home to his mother at the end of the day. We will be having snowball fights (white bags we have made into snowballs) and building forts using blocks covered in white paper. There are also beds with warm blankets, various clothing to get dressed to go in the snow and we have soup for making in the kitchen after playing all day in the snow. This week we will be discussing what people do in the winter and then we will start moving into the idea of the changes water makes in the different types of weather. We are learning about the letters M and N this week. The children helped find objects that start with the M today. We also sang a new song about snowmen melting. Half of the friends had a turn today and the other half will have a turn tomorrow. We brought in real snow from outside for the children to play in. They were using some scoops to make small snowballs. A few friends chose to do this idea and I let them know it will be available for tomorrow. They also did a snowflake count file folder game. They had to count the dots on the snowflake and then match the number. Some friends worked on numbers 1- 10 and others worked on 11-20. The friends who did 11 - 20 had to count on from 10 because the dots in the middle of the snowflake were always a group of 10. This was tricky at first. Not everyone completed this activity. For snack the children had berry muffins and everyone chose to eat them. Some friends decided they did not like them, but still tried them or they picked out the raisins and ate the muffin part. Our line leader was Annie, weather helper was Grace and snack helper was Tony. To end our day we read the story The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. After reading each of the children shared what they would do with Peter if he was their friend."