Wow!  It is hard to believe the school year is over.  We have had another great year here at Point Beach Prep!  Our students have learned so much!  Over the year, our class built their knowledge of letters and letter sounds by meeting all of our letter dolls from A-Z.  They learned letter recognition and brainstormed words that started with each letter. They learned the sign language for each alphabet letter, and a sign language word. They practiced writing their letters with pencil power.  We saw emergent writing when mock letters became stories!  They enjoyed bringing in a Show and Tell item weekly for the different letters.  Every week we also learned a new word on our sight word tree.

The children learned their numbers and colors.  They sang and danced to many great songs.  We read SO many interesting books, and literacy was emerging!  Our class explored with squishy shaving cream, played with many different sand colors in our sand table, and even had rice in our sensory table.  They built a volcano and watched it erupt, and explored properties of magnets.  Our artists used their creativity at creation station by painting at the easel, and making whatever they could imagine with markers, crayons, colored pencils, glue, scissors, etc.  At our small group project table they made many projects related to our letters and themes.  Imaginations were developed in our dramatic play areas.  Through the staging of a farm, train station, construction site, play school, horse barn, grocery store, the U.S. Post Office, and an under the sea area complete with a boat, the children built thinking skills and developed social, emotional and language skills! 

Each child enjoyed being Student of the Week.  They took Brown Bear home with them and wrote about their adventures.  Our friends all loved having their special person come in with them during their week to read, play guitar, teach yoga, teach lessons on the 5 senses, learn all about Scotland, make cool crafts such as Gak, handprint tulip bags, Olaf, and clothespin ladybugs, make homemade applesauce, make banana smoothies, eat something FROZEN, eat fresh peas, have a lobster toss, bring a piņata, and we even had an animal ambassador and a fireman with all of his gear!  Wow!

Every student eagerly anticipated being given a special job daily.  They learned responsibility by taking turns being the line leader, caboose, project helper, outdoor helper, bell ringer, snack counter, calendar helper, doing days of the week, weather, attendance, turning on/off the lights, holding the flag, being the librarian and the center checker. 

Outside, we played Duck Duck Goose, Farmer in the Dell, Simon Says, many games with the parachute, had zig-zag races, drew with chalk, played on a seesaw, rode tricycles, cars, scooters, and even rode a fire truck! 

We loved having the Point Pleasant Beach Children's Librarian come in every month to read stories, sing songs, use our felt board, and do other fun things with us.  We also enjoyed having Art Teacher Karen Norby come in several times to do lessons on shapes, line, and texture.  We had 2 different dentists come in to teach us good oral hygiene and even had a visit from the Tooth Fairy!

We had many special events such as our Halloween Parade, trip to St. Gregory's Pantry, Thanksgiving Show, Christmas Sing-a-long, Valentine's parties, Mother's Day Tea, and game days.

 Summer Camp at Point Beach Prep

Here's something 

NEW 

that's happening 

this summer!

Point Beach Prep will be hosting 

"Summer Camp"
Weekday mornings only

  From June 30-August 1, 2014