Hidden Gems: Preschool & Enrichment Center

I absolutely love the engagement!! Sometimes with masks on so can’t tell if they feelin it or not lol, but the eyes! The hands!! The stretched spines!!! I’m here for alll if it!! . P.S. our guest, Grammy performing jazz vocalist was being amazing!!!

One of our greens brought a book with her to school today, Family Trip with Peppa Pig. In the story Peppa kept leaving his Teddy behind everywhere he went. I decided to hide the counters all over and have them find Teddy and match, shirt and group by colors! I was really amazed at how well our littles did and they had so much fun finding all the Teddys! Great impromptu story time and fun!

#crazyhairday was lots of fun! We have been studying Greek mythology so we learned about the craziest hair EVER!!! And the story of Medusa. We talked about vanity and being a protector Over people (goddess Athena) and talked about the different symbols found on Medusa and what they represent.

Disney Day! Spirit week continues! Directed drawing of Mickey Mouse! He’s for look at this incredible work!!

Working on our book reports! On Thursday we are dressing up as our favorite character from our book and sharing our books and presenting our book reports to our class!

Pj and pancake day. The gems made from scratch: buttermilk waffles, gluten free, allergy free pancakes and allergy free blueberry muffins! They even made homemade syrup (with butter) and strawberry syrup for our allergy Gems . Swipe to see the Sims sisters 50 years from today

These pumpkin empanadas are the best pumpkin anything I’ve ever tasted!!! Great work gems!! Thank you @sugarsecrets for an amazing baking class today!

Today is baking class with @sugarsecrets everyone got their own baking kits to keep and are super excited to make pumpkin epinadas! Fun way to celebrate fall and Hispanic heritage month

Study hour. Spending time on IXL

Putting their trumpets to use learning how to form their mouth and blow properly into a trumpet

After making our masks we headed to Inglewood’s Greek Theater to play! We learned how Greek actors would wear their masks and use large movements to express emotions so the audience could see. Our gems scattered around the theater to see where they could see and hear best. Gems played rounds of charades acting out emotions with little to no movement and with great big movements and masks to see if friends allllll the way in the back could guess what they were acting out

Learning about Greek Mythology. We learned about how they would make masks for theater plays so that the audience in the back could see facial expressions and better understand the characters emotions. We also learned that their masks were made in a way that helped amplify their voices. We made our own masks, each representing a different emotion. . See next post for what we did next

Learning about Greek mythology and how vases tell stories. Making our own vases in Inglewood’s outdoor Greek theater. . COVID has a shortage on supplies so we used glass vases, nail polish and permanent markers to tell our stories on our vases.