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Buddy Reading Fun! 📚☀️ One of our Large Group Literacy activities is Buddy Reading. During Buddy Reading, students have the opportunity to share a book with a friend, using the pictures to help them tell the story in their own words. This encourages creativity, language development, and a love of 
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We are celebrating Dr. Seuss and Read Across America at Herbertsville! Thank you to all of our Celebrity Readers for taking the time out of your day to read to our Stars! Visit our folder for more pictures from the day! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11KyQ57UxBKEJ6LunrO72mnkuMmPxwA8_
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Our theme is changing again! Our new theme is called “Community Helpers,” Our centers will transform into places that make a community work like the post office, town hall, library, and school just to name a few. By this time in the year, the students will begin to visit other 
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Graphics Practice is an activity where our preschoolers learn basic writing strokes that eventually lead to letters, numbers, and words. This activity also works on self regulation, a big part of our curriculum that is built into all activities. Students can only make marks or draw when there is music 
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              Children explore scientific concepts through questions, observations, and experiments. They learn to make predictions, test hypotheses, and draw conclusions in simple, age-appropriate ways. For example, a teacher might ask, “What will happen if we mix water with sand?” and guide children to explore 
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This past week, Herbertsville was the site of a Time Capsule reveal! Before we became a preschool building, Herbertsville was an elementary school, housing students from kindergarten through fifth grade. During the 2010-2011 school year, one of those fifth grade students, Brittany Richardson, designed a time capsule as part of 
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Every year, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) celebrates the “Week of the Young Child”. During this week, we celebrate young children and their families with hands-on, collaborative activities that encourage healthy lifestyles through music, food, and art. We celebrate this week in our school with 
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For our next theme, our classes were given the choice of what themes they wanted to create in their rooms. This is the first time we have done this and it is fun to watch everyone transform their space into something different! We have grocery stores, pet vet, and camping 
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Back in our curriculum this year is a building favorite, Strip Mall! We are lucky to have a lot of strip malls in our town so our students are bringing a lot of prior knowledge to this theme! Inside our classrooms, you will find hair and nail salons, hardware stores, 
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We are switching gears in preschool and beginning our Medical Theme! This unit of learning allows our kiddos to use make believe play to explore the many roles and actions associated with all things medical! We are introducing new roles, including doctor and nurse, and also utilizing roles we have 
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