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Ms. Marie’s Update 09/15/19 Dear Preschool Families and Friends,                                                            We are in our second week of our Robotics STEM unit.  The children learned about our senses last week and will continue to do so this week.  We will also talk about how robots ‘sense’ things through microphones and cameras.   Important Dates Picture Day This Tuesday Sept. […]

Hello!   Here are this week’s announcements and reminders:   This Week we have lots going on! Picture Day Tuesday – Bring your best smiles and payment if you’d like to purchase pictures PJ Day Thursday – $1 suggested donation to the PTO PTO Meeting Thursday 6-7:30 PM – Everyone is welcome to drop-in, childcare […]

Dear Families, We started our new literacy “Fundations” curriculum last week and the students focused on the letters A and B.  We are working on saying the alphabet, learning the letter, sound and also movement which goes with each letter to help us learn phonics.   Next week we will add the letters B and C. Our […]

Ms. Piper’s Class Newsletter 9/13/19 Hello, preschool families! We hope this message finds you well. This is the classroom update for the month of September. What We’re Learning We started our year with learning what preschool is all about! Classroom rules and routines, how to be a friend, an introduction to all of our materials […]

Dear Family Members, Time is flying by these first few weeks of school! We have settled into our routines, and I can already see so much learning in your children. We spent last week introducing our bodies and talking about body parts. This week we will talk about staying healthy by brushing our teeth, and […]

Dear Families, Last week our classroom focused on play and the theme “sharing is caring”.  We had a play group with special toys and the children worked on asking others to play and understanding that you can respond both yes and no.  We also listened to the story The Rainbow Fish.  There is a cute […]

Hello Families, Last week we began talking about Twiggle, the turtle, who is one of the PATHS characters.  PATHS is the social-emotional curriculum that Spark! uses and it is great!  We created a Twiggle.  It was a great fine motor, following directions and counting (we counted the turtle’s feet before putting them on!) task for […]

Hello Preschool Families!!      We hope that you enjoyed your long weekend. A Week in Review: ·      We explored the different areas in our classroom as well as in our building. ·      We played games to get to know one another. We also continued our social and emotional curriculum with Twiggle, the turtle. Twiggle came to talk with […]

Hello! Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: As some of your know, we have been building beds for our teddy bears to sleep in. If you have any extra shoe boxes at home we would love them for our beds. This week we will officially begin our first STEM unit on Pets. Look out […]

Dear Families, I hope you are doing well and enjoying your long labor day weekend.   The children had a wonderful week where we continued to open new centers in the classroom.  They all loved creating in our STEM center, playing with water in the sensory table and watercoloring in the art area.  The children worked […]