Hello Preschool Families!!  

We hope that you are enjoying the beautiful weather. Thank you to the families who were able to make it to the McDonald’s Fundraiser as well as the Miner’s Day Festivities. It was great seeing you there and we hope that you had fun.

A Week in Review:

• We talked about the different places to get a pet. We talked about the humane society, pet stores and animal rescues.  
•  We talked about the number three, 3. How do we write 3? Can we find 3 objects?  Is there a poem to remember how to write the number 3?
• We worked closely with the letter Ff and Ee. We created them with the wood pieces as well as looked at words that start Ff and Ee. 
•  We talked about the color, Green. 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 Green:

(ROW, ROW ROW YOUR BOAT)

G-R-E-E-N, G-R-E-E-N

I KNOW HOW TO SPELL GREEN, G-R-E-E-N

CATERPILLARS ARE GREEN

AND GRASSHOPPERS, TOO

I KNOW HOW TO SPELL GREEN, G-R-E-E-N

What to Expect:

• Letters: Tt, Ii
•   The number: Four, 4
• The color: Blue
• The Shape: Square
• Pets STEM Unit starts: How do you take care of your pets? What do pets need? (food, water, shelter, love)

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

Important Dates:

•   Sept. 5^th– Oct. 12^th: STEM Unit 1 Starts: Pets
• Sept. 18^th: Family Fun Night
  • 6:00pm-7:00pm
  • Spark! Gym
• Sept. 18^th: Library
• Sept. 22^nd– Oct.10^th: Believe Fundraiser
•  Sept. 26^th: Individual Picture Day
• Sept. 28^th: Parenting Class with Cheryl Hamilton the Family Whisper
• 6:30pm – 7:45pm
• Free for all Parents: Childcare Provided
•   Oct. 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th: Parent Teacher Conferences

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)

 

Family Fun Night

When?

·      Monday, September 18^th, 2017

·      From 6:00pm – 7:00pm

·      At Spark! Discovery Preschool, in the gym

What?

·      Learning for the whole family!

·      Join us to play some math games with your child(ren)! We will have some handouts and take-home games for you to use throughout the school year.

Did you know?

·      Mathematics Knowledge & Skills describe children’s abilities to understand numbers, quantity, and the relationships between them. Also important to this domain is a basic understanding of shapes, the position of shapes in space, patterns, data, and measurement.

·      Many skills in early mathematics require children to make generalizations and think abstractly, which builds cognitive skills that support a wide array of early learning and are associated with positive outcomes.

·      Early mathematics skills are the strongest predictors of later academic performance (Duncan, 2007, UC Irvine)

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Tori & Ms. Shilah