Hello Preschool Families!!   

We hope that you are enjoying your weekend. This week went by really fast. We had a great deal of fun. On Friday, Ms. Tessa and I were really busy with moving and arranging our new room for Monday. We are pretty excited to be in this new room and can’t wait to share it with your child. 

A Week in Review:

We did our Design Challenge. We read the story Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox. We looked at the problems that Rapunzel had in the book like not being able to hear the prince and giving him the wrong things. In groups, we designed and built a simple machine that could help fix that problem.​

·      We did color mixing. We took the colors, blue and red and mixed them together to get purple.

·      We talked about the number two. How do we write 2? Can we find 2 objects?  Is there a poem to remember how to write the number 2?

·      We talked about the Heart. How do we draw a heart? How many sides and points does a heart have? We looked for things that were of a heart in our classroom, gym and outside.

·        We worked on the Letters, Mm, Nn, Ww, Xx. 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.

What to Expect:

•  ­Letters: Yy, Zz
•  The number: Three, 3
• The color: Color Mixing: Blue and Yellow
• ­  The Shape: Cube
• ­  Sight word: and
• Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Week
• Class Picture: Wednesday, March 1^st, 2017
• Library: Monday, February 27^th, 2017

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

Important Dates:

·      Feb 27^th – Mar 3^rd: Read Across America Week – Dr. Seuss reading celebration

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

·      March 2^nd– 6-7pm, Parent Education Session on Child Development- Social and Emotional Development

·      Mar. 6^th: New STEM Unit Starts – Music

 

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.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Tori & Ms. Tessa