001I hope you enjoy this session of Roaming with Roa. I'm at Sunrest Elementary in the uh preschool classroom and uh I'm I'm here today to ask kids what they love about Sunrest Preschool. Uh always great to hear the answers kids give me and uh especially from our littles. So enjoy this session of roaming with Roa at Sunrass Preschool. Mr. Ragsdale is going to put this on camera and you guys are going to be in stations, I think, and then then Mrs. Miller will send you over and I'm going to ask you the question, what do you love about Sunrest Preschool? So be thinking of that right now. >> What's our letter of the week? [clears throat] >> G. So you have the uppercase G and the lowercase G. Uppercase G's are red. Lowercase G's are
002yellow. What is this a picture of? >> A present. >> Now, does P present start with the G-G sound? >> No. So, what's another word for present? >> Gift. Gift. >> Okay. All right. Do we know what we're doing at each station? >> Do we play during this time? >> No. >> Because if you play during work time, what are you not going to do during play time? not play. >> Oh, then we will not play during work time or during play time. You work during work time, you play during playtime. Okay? If you're playing and messing around and not doing the activities that I have planned, then you're going to have to do them when we play >> because that is how our brains learn. Understand? >> Okay. Are you ready to show everyone
003how great you are? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Look up at the board. I want you to quietly with walking feet find your station and go to it. Israel, do you need help? >> What are you guys doing in this station today? >> I'm matching my letter. >> You're You're matching the letter. Okay. Well, I I I'd like to ask you a question. Is it okay if I ask you a question? Bryce, what do you love about Sunrest Preschool? >> I'm working with Mrs. Amber. >> All right. >> Doing sisters. >> I like Miss Mary giving us Skittles. >> Giving you Skittles. How do you earn Skittles? >> To do good. >> Oh, okay. Do working hard in your classroom. >> All right. Thank you, Liam. >> Can you Can you guys tell me what you're
004doing in your station right here? >> Um, on the station the keys locking. >> Oh, you're locking the keys. And the keys have Do they have letters on them? >> YEAH. LOOK. >> OH, >> I HAVE locking keys. >> What letter is that? What letter do you have? >> P. >> You have P. What do you have? What letters do you have? What letter can you tell me? >> R N >> RNG. >> Yeah. >> I love >> Miss Miller and Miss Amber. >> You love Miss Miller and Miss Amber. >> I I love all of everybody. >> You love everybody. Okay. >> Um this one. >> You love stations. Okay. >> I love Valentine. >> You love Valentine's. All right. That that's coming up. Get some good get some good stuff during that time.
005Don't you >> ask your name is >> what? My my name is my name is Dr. Roa. Do you have any questions for me? >> Do you have any questions for me? >> What question do you have? >> What question do I have? That was my question. I wanted to see I want to see the great things you're doing here in Sunrest Preschool. You guys are doing some really good wonderful stuff here. >> I love Valentine. >> Do I love Valentine? Yeah, I love Valentine's. Is that your only question for me? If I love Valentine? >> Yeah. What are you guys doing at your table here? >> You're you're cutting out what what are you guys cutting out? >> Letters. What do you love about Sunrest Preschool? >> Um library. >> You love the library.
006All right. >> Doing stations. >> You love your station time? >> Yeah. Playing. >> You love playing. You love the play time. >> I act when we sing the ABCs. >> You love to sing the ABCs. Miss Mora, what what is your role here in Sunrest Preschool? >> I'm a PAR professional and I go to different classes. >> You go to different classes? >> Yeah, I'm here for like 20 minutes with preschool and I help help around with centers. >> All right. Thank you very much. What are you guys doing at your station here? >> What letter is this? >> Coloring. >> You're coloring. Okay. What letter are you guys working on today? >> Got letter G. Okay. What do you love about Sunrest Preschool? >> Station. station. My secret one. >> Your secret one?
007>> Yeah. >> You have a secret station? >> Yeah, I have a secret station. >> Oh, you have a secret station. What is your secret station? >> Um um the red cable. >> What's that? >> Greg cable like you're working at. >> Oh, okay. Like they're working at there. That's That's your secret station. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I like to have movie theaters. >> Oh, movie theaters. Okay. >> Games. All right. All right. You have a lot of fun in here, don't you? What do you love about Sunrest Preschool? I'm >> feeding the heart monster. >> You're doing what? >> Feeding the hate monster. >> Feeding the monster. >> The heart monster. >> The heart just >> Oh, the heart monster. Okay. Thank you. >> Feeding the heart monster. That must have been a
008great station there. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Miller. What do you do here at Sunrest Elementary? >> I'm a preschool teacher. >> Okay. And uh what is your favorite thing about preschool at Sunrest? >> I love the aha moments when finally we're learning our letters every single day and they just finally click >> and they're so excited. Say please. >> Well, I am just so impressed about how all of your kids knew exactly what to do and where to go and when they sat down at their station, they were doing exactly what you asked them to do. What a great group. >> We have tried very hard, haven't we? because we have to get ready for kindergarten >> and they have their routines down. They've got their letters down. I love it. So, thank you,
009Mrs. Miller. Appreciate it. Yes. >> Mrs. Santiago, what do you do here at Sunrest Elementary? >> I am the bilingual secretary. >> Bilingual Secretary. Uh, we just asked a question to preschoolers. What do you love about the Sunrest PreK program? >> Oh my gosh, so much actually though. Um, they those kids like seeing their faces light up when they learn their letters and their sounds. That's like I think that's the biggest one. >> The aha moment is what Mrs. [laughter] That's right. Call it. Yep. That aha moment. >> All right. Thank you, Mrs. Scott. Uh I asked what do you do here at Sunrest Elementary? >> I am the ECA treasure/ secretary. >> All right. What do you love most about the Sunrest PreK program? >> Uh I like the littles. I like the fact
010that they can learn and get ready for kindergarten. >> I do too. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Scott. What is your favorite thing about Sunrest Preschool? >> Doing the work. Doing the work. All right. Do you Do you have a favorite letter of the alphabet? >> Yeah. >> What What is your favorite letter? >> A. I love it. Thank you. >> Doing the work and listening. Thank you. What do you like to do at Sunrest Preschool? >> I like to do >> You like to play >> Numbers. Okay. >> Work. [music] >> You love to work. I love it. Thank you. >> Playing. >> All right. >> Work. >> You love to work. Thank you. I love it. >> Eagle tickets. All right. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed this session of Roaming with Rod
011at Sunrest in the preschool classroom. Kids are great. Hope you were impressed with I mean I watched kids just go to their stations. They knew exactly what to do. They've got their routines down and the majority of them enjoy working. So great to see that here at Sunrest. you send your kids to Sunrest or Blue Ridge in the preK program, you will not be disappointed. The the kids learn a great deal in a year and the teachers do a great job of preparing them for kindergarten. So, hope you en enjoyed this session of Roaming with Roa. Thank you.