Hello Preschool Families!!  

       We hope that you enjoyed your long weekend. We had a great week. We were able to earn all of our Star Power Tickets and go to the reward party. This month it was a Board Game Party. It was a lot of fun. 🙂

This week:

·   We talked about The Three Little Pigs. We went into Makerspace for our Design Challenge. Our challenge for this unit was to create a house that the Big Bad Wolf (a.k.a A Blow Dryer) could not blow down. The students had a lot of fun working with their friends to create a house for the pigs.

·      We did a review of the colors, Red Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple and Pink. We looked for the colors in our classroom and outside.

·      Talked about the number seven. How do we write 7? Can we find 7 objects?  Is there a poem to remember how to write the number 7?

·      We reviewed the shapes, circle, square, triangle and rectangle. How do we draw each shape? How many sides and points does each shape have? We looked for things that were in the shape of a circle, square, triangle and rectangle in our classroom, gym and outside.

·        We worked on the Letters, Ll, Ff, Ee, Hh. We practiced writing them, building them with wood and creating them with play dough. We also talked about different words that start with those letters.

Next Week:

• ­ ­ Library on Monday, January 23^th, 2017
•  ­ Letters: Tt, Ii, Uu, Cc
• ­  The number: Eight
• ­  The color: White and Gray
• ­  The Shape: Oval
• ­  Sight word: like
•  New STEM Unit: Simple Machine: What are simple machines?

Thank you for your support! Working with your preschooler at home really makes a difference.

Important Dates:

Jan. 19^th: PBIS Reward: Board Games

Jan. 19^th: PJ Day- sponsored by PTO

Jan. 23^rd: Library, New STEM Unit starts

Feb. 6^th, 7^th & 8^th: Parent-Teacher Conference Nights

Feb. 9^th: PJ Day- sponsored by PTO

Feb. 14^th: Valentine’s Day Celebrations, 10:20-11:10am

Feb. 20^th: No School: President’s Day

Feb 28^th – Mar 1^st: Spring Class Picture Days

 

Please remember that the weather is changing for the colder side to make sure that your child is properly dressed for being outside and that all items are labeled with their name. Please also check the spare clothes in your child’s backpack to make sure that they are for the right weather. Your child will need to have winter boots to be able to play on the playground if there is snow. We will be going outside unless it is below 20°F or unsafe weather conditions. 

School News:

ANNOUNCING A SCHOOL-WIDE ATTENDANCE REWARD!

The second trimester for the school year is from Nov 10, 2016 – Feb 24, 2017. If our school meets the goal of 96% attendance rate during the second trimester, we will schedule an early evening Magic Show, with Lee Curtis, Magical Wizard in early March in the evening for families to attend for free! Help us meet our school-wide goal. Date: TBD based on successful completion of our goal.

School Fundraisers:

Shoe Drive, Sponsored by PTO!!!   Do you have any outgrown, old, no longer worn shoes? Bring them to Spark! Discovery Preschool. We are working with a company called Funds2.org who helps get the shoes we collect to developing countries. We are collecting: tennis shoes/sneakers, heels, boots, sandals, flats, dress, infant, dance shoes—all sizes, all styles!  We will start collecting on Oct 28th! Bring your shoes to Trick -or-treat street at the school!!! The shoe drive runs until January 31, 2017.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Tori & Ms. Tessa