Hello Preschool Families!!  

We hope that you are enjoying the beautiful weather and the long weekend.

A Week in Review:

• We explored Makerspace this week. We tinkered with and created toys in there.
• We worked through the Design Process with our Mat Man Challenge. We created empathy by reading Mat-Man and looking at different hats. We planned what hat we were going to create. We prototyped our hats using materials in the classroom as well as in Makerspace. We received feedback from our classmates as well as other classes as we wore our hats in the hallway.
• We talked about the number one, 1. How do we write 1? Can we find 1 object?  Is there a poem to remember how to write the number 1?
• We did an overview of the letters in the alphabet.  We practiced by singing “Who let the Letters Out?” and using watercolors to find the letters of our names. We also talked about different words that start with each letter.
• We talked about the color Orange. We looked who was wearing the color and where we could find it in our classroom and outside. We sang this song about the color Orange:
  •   ORANGE (Tune: (Slow) Hurry Hurry Drive the Firetruck)

          O-R-A-N-G-E,

 O-R-A-N-G-E,

 O-R-A-N-G-E

 ORANGE IS WHAT THAT SPELLS

 

JACK-O-LANTERNS ARE ALWAYS ORANGE

CARROTS ARE ALWAYS ORANGE

ORANGES ARE ALWAYS ORANGE

O-R-A-N-G——-E!

What to Expect:

·       ­Letters: Ll, Ff

·       The number: Two, 2

·       The color: Yellow

·       ­  The Shape:  Circles

·       ­  Pets STEM Unit starts: What is a pet? How do we care for pets?

As we are starting our Pets Unit, we would love to share pictures of our pets in class. If you would please send in or email pictures, that would be wonderful. We are still missing some family pictures as well if you would like to email those as well.

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

Important Dates:

Sept. 5^th– Oct. 12^th: STEM Unit 1 Starts: Pets

Sept. 7^th:  Spark! PTO Meeting

o   6-8pm

Sept. 7^th: PBIS Reward: Parachute Party

Sept. 14^th: Parenting Class (flyer attached) – Free for all Parents with Cheryl Hamilton, the Family Whisperer

o   6:30pm – 7:45pm

School News/District News:

Community Resources:  We have information to connect families with local agencies regarding mental health, child nutrition, physical fitness, food bank, child find, medical and dental resources, in several locations:

1) In a notebook in the front office,

2) In our parent flyer stand at the front entrance

3) On our school website at http://sdpk.svvsd.org/community-resources.

4) The black table at the front of the school also has activity packets for parents to take in English and Spanish (when possible)

Use of Interpreters for Families Speaking a language other than English

Spark! Discovery Preschool takes reasonable steps to ensure families with limited English proficiency have meaningful access and an equal opportunity to participate in their child’s education, activities, and programs. Our district uses district-approved language translation services for translation of written communications, such as newsletters, Individual Education Plans, and so on.

Interpreters at Spark! Discovery Preschool will provide support for parents who may need this.  An interpreter is available daily in our school’s front office.  Additional interpreters are available for:

●      Ice Cream Social

●      Child Development parent classes (when requested)

●      Parenting classes (when requested)

●      Special Education meetings

●      Child-Find Meetings

●      Parent-Teacher Conferences

Referral Processes:  If families would like to make a referral to a specialist, please discuss this with the School Special Education Facilitator. We host a Child Find satellite office at Spark! Discovery Preschool, to handle questions or concerns about child development, behavior, or mental health.  If you have questions about your child’s health, you should call our health clerk.  She will answer your questions or forward you to a SVVSD nurse.

Child Find at Spark! Discovery Preschool:  For children ages birth to five (who are not attending a district preschool already), developmental screenings and evaluations are provided by a District Child Find Assessment Team at Spark! Discovery Preschool (555 8th St., Frederick).  This Child Find Assessment Team may be comprised of School Psychologists, Speech and Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, a School Nurse, and Early Childhood Special Education Teachers. Autism and Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Specialists consult as needed.

Other Plans for Academic or Behavioral Assistance:  A Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a systemic, continuous improvement framework in which data-based problem-solving and decision making is practiced across all levels of the educational system for supporting students. A Multi-Tiered System of Supports helps our school to organize resources through alignment of academic standards and behavioral expectations, implemented with fidelity and sustained over time, in order to accelerate the performance of every student to achieve.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Tori & Ms. Shilah