Hello Preschool Families!!

     We hope that you are enjoying your weekend. Thank you to all of the families that were able to join us for Trick or Treat Street on Friday. We enjoyed seeing everyone and your fun costumes. 

A Week in Review:

·  We learned about Nursery Rhymes. We looked for rhyming words in the nursery rhymes of Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Mary Had a Little Lamb and Jack be Nimble.

·  We talked about the number, five, 5. How do we write 5? Can we find things that come as 5 objects?

·      We worked with letters, Mm and Nn. We talked about things that started with that letter and how to form that letter. We practiced saying the sound with Baby Echo.

·      We worked on ovals. We worked on how to identify them and draw them. We talked about the difference between ovals and circles.

·      We talked about the color, Purple. 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 Purple:

PURPLE

P-U-R-P-L-E, PURPLE, PURPLE

P-U-R-P-L-E, PURPLE’S WHAT THAT SPELLS

PURPLE GRAPES ON THE VINE

PURPLE KOOL-AID’S FINE

P-U-R-P-L-E, PURPLE’S WHAT THAT SPELLS

P-U-R-P-L-E, PURPLE, PURPLE

P-U-R-P-L-E, PURPLE’S WHAT THAT SPELLS

PURPLE GRAPES ON THE VINE

PURPLE KOOL-AID’S FINE

P-U-R-P-L-E, PURPLE’S WHAT THAT SPELLS

What to Expect:

·  STEM Unit 2: Nursery Rhymes Continues

o   Itsy Bitsy Spider

o   Little Miss Muffet

·  Our letters of the week are Oo and Pp

·  Our Color of the week is Black

·  Our Number of the week is Six, 6

·  Our Shape of the Week is a circle

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

A reminder that as the weather starts to get colder, Please make sure that your child comes with a coat/ hat / mittens or gloves (please put their name on the inside tag) because we also value getting kids outside to play and it can still be chilly! If you child doesn’t know how to put on their coat or work their zippers, it’s something to start actively teaching and practicing. Now is also the time to check the 2nd set of clothes in your child’s backpack.  They also may have grown too

School News/District News:

Please register Spark as your designated school for the King Sooper’s/City Market Rewards Program! You can do so by logging in and then registering athttps://www.kingsoopers.com/. Search for “Spark Discovery Preschool PTO” or by entering the code “HE297” and enroll. It’s as simple as that! Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about this.

Volunteering at Spark!:

We welcome parent, guardian, and grandparent volunteers and want you to be involved.  For preschool, it is required by licensing that volunteer training be offered and attended to volunteer in classrooms or the school.  This is a session where children over the age of 6 months should not be present.Speaking of volunteering, we are looking for an office squad of volunteers this school year to better assist our teachers in clerical ways (copying, laminating, stapling, sorting, etc).  Sometimes, children have a difficult time at this age having a family member volunteer in the classroom, as it can be difficult with separation, anxiety, or behaviors. If you’d like to volunteer but know the classroom will be a difficult space, we are looking for a volunteer in the office for each session of preschool in the AM and PM Monday through Thursday, for a total of eight dependable, reliable volunteers each week. This will help teachers across the school make the best use of their planning time during the week and on Fridays. We already have a volunteer on Monday and Wednesday mornings! Please consider assisting our staff in this manner if the idea of being in the classroom doesn’t appeal to you. The below training is required. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected].

 

·      Monday, August 26^th – completed

·      Friday, Sept 20^th  – completed

·      Tuesday, Oct 22^nd, 4:00 – 5:30 pm – completed

·      Friday, November 15^th, 9:30 – 11 am

·      Friday, January 10^th,  9:30-11:00 am

·      Friday, Feb 28^th, 9:30 – 11 am

·      Tuesday, March 10^th, 4:00 – 5:30 pm

Important Dates:

·      Oct. 14^th – Nov. 22^nd: STEM Unit 2 Starts: Nursery Rhymes

·      Oct. 28^th – Parenting with Love and Logic, with Cheryl Hamilton, from the Family Whisperer 

o   6:00 – 7:30 pm

·      Oct. 31^st – Halloween

o   No costumes at school

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Tori & Ms. JJ