Hello Preschool Families!!  

We hope that you are enjoying the beautiful weather.

A Week in Review:

·      We started our first STEM unit on Life Cycles. We started by defining a life cycle. We explored insects. We learned that they have 6 legs and 3 body parts. We learned that some have wings and some can bite.

·      We talked about the number, one, 1. How do we write 1? Can we find things that come as 1 object?

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

·      We talked about the color Yellow. 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 Yellow:

·       Yellow

(IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT)

Y-E-L-L-O-W SPELLS YELLOW.

Y-E-L-L-O-W SPELLS YELLOW.

LIKE THE EARLY MORNING SUN

WHEN THE DAY HAS JUST BEGUN.

Y-E-L-L-O-W SPELLS YELLOW.

DAFFODILS AND BABY DUCKS ARE YELLOW.

LEMONADE AND SCRAMBLED EGGS ARE YELLOW.

I LIKE THE SMILEY FACE THAT’S YELLOW.

HE IS SUCH A HAPPY FELLOW.

Y-E-L-L-O-W SPELLS YELLOW.

 

What to Expect:

·       ­Letters: Ee, Ff

·       The number: Two, 2

·       The color: Green

·       ­The Shape: Square

·       STEM Unit starts: Life Cycles: What is an Insects Life Cycle?

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

 

Important Dates:

·      Sept. 4^th– Oct. 5^th: STEM Unit 1 Starts: Life Cycles

·      Sept. 13^th: PTO General Meeting: 6pm – 8pm

·      Sept.13^th: PJ Day: Please bring a $1 for PTO

·      Sept. 15^th: Miner’s Day Parade: 10am

·      Sept. 20^th: Love and Logic Class: 6pm – 7:30pm

·      Sept. 21^st: Volunteer Training: 9:00am to 10:30am

·      Sept. 24^th: Believe Fundraiser begins

·      Sept. 25^th McDonald’s Spirit Night: 4pm – 8pm

·      Sept. 25^th: Picture Day

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)

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. The next session for training, offered by two teachers, will be on Friday, September 21^st from 9:00 am to 10:30 am.  After that, there will be a training in October, January, February, and March offered at various times.  

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 andWednesday 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 13, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm -completed

·       Friday, September 21 from 9 am – 10:30 am

·       Monday, October 22 from 4 – 5:30 pm

·       Friday, January 18th from 9 am – 10:30 am

·       Tuesday, February 19 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm

·       Friday, March 15 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Tori & Mrs. Claudia