Welcome to Circle Time

After a little meet and greet time, and some free exploration of carefully prepared hands on centers, it's time for circle time! Come on and sing with us. . . "One, two three, come learn with me. Four, five, six, calendar and weather picks. Seven, eight, nine, it's circle time!"

It's our Little Helper chart! Meaningful task help

keep our day running smoothly. Children love picking

from things like 'snack helper' and 'fish feeder.'

 Weather time! Let's look outside and see what the weather is like!

Our weather helper picks the weather sticker and puts it on our poster.

 Next, it's time to decide how we should be dressing for today's weather.

We have new clothing options each month.

We're always excited to see what's in store for our weather friends!

Our birdhouse is both the display area for our friendship feathers,

and also holds our clothesline for our color birds.

During circle time we discuss the charector trait we are working on currently.

The children always have great suggestions on how to be a good friend!

 

Our color birds sit on a clothesline by our birdhouse.

We work on both color, and color word, identification.

We review the shapes in our shape basket!

Along with traditional preschool shapes, we work

on shapes like trapezoid, crescent, and three dimensional shapes like cube.

 We use hands on numbers and letters to explore their shape

and how they are created.

 Each month we focus on one food group and explore

topics that lead to lifelong healthy eating habbits.

 Our phonics flowers are planted in our letter pot.

Along with our Zoo-Phoics, we concentrate on a few specific

letter and sounds each month during circle time.

What surprise has been left in our phonics garden today?

 We also sing our Zoo-Phonics song during circle time!

Zoo-Phonics allows the children to easily learn the letters and

their sounds.

As you can see, our circle time is also hands on, educational, and lots of fun. 

Our day starts with this very interactive learning experience and it really makes the children excited to see what else their preschool day has in store for them!