Author: ford_aaron

Happy May!  I hope you are getting to enjoy some of the beautiful weather this weekend.  If you do so by the school you might even get to meet some of our class’s guests from this last week.  We’ve been busy observing how caterpillars change into butterflies for the last few weeks and last Monday […]

Hello! Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Concepts: Subitizing 3, 4, 5, cylinder, gray; Y, Z, look, and Wacky Wednesday this week! Feel free to wear some wacky outfits or hairstyles. Things will be a little wacky in the class as well. This is just for fun and totally optional. The last PJ Day […]

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you enjoy the long weekend! Happy Mother’s Day!! A Week in Review: ·      We spilt our class into little groups and worked as a team to build a house for Herman. The teams got to pick what material they were going to use. They needed to make sure that there […]

Ways to develop Empathy in Children •MOTHERS whose behavior toward their preschool children is RESPONSIVE, NONPUNITIVE, AND NONAUTHORITARIAN have children who have higher levels of affective and cognitive empathy and prosocial behavior (Eisenberg, Lennon, and Roth 1983; EisenbergBerg and Mussen 1978; Kestenbaum, Farber, and Sroufe 1989; and Zahn-Waxler, Radke-Yarrow, and King 1979). •REASON WITH CHILDREN–Even […]

April 8 – May 10th STEM unit 6 Wed, May 1 Tuition payments due May 1 – 23 STEM Profile focus for April 2019– Empathetic Wed, May 1 Late Start for K-12 – preschoolers have school!  Thurs, May 2, 4:00 – 4:45 pm Tour Thurs, May 2, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) Fri, […]

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you have a great holiday weekend!   A Week in Review: ·      We are in our second week of the last STEM unit. This week, we talked about houses in different places. We looked at huts, igloos, adobe houses and strange shaped houses. We also decided that there were 3 things […]

Hello! Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Concepts: Twenty (20), circle and sphere, variations of blue; M, N, O, P, my, do, in Please keep the One Gallon Plastic Jugs (milk, water, juice, etc) coming! I’m hoping we can begin construction this week! PJ Day This Thursday, April 25th! – But save your $1 […]

I hope you all had a fun and relaxing long weekend.  The kids came back from the break full of energy and enthusiasm.  The cold weather gave us a great launching off point for our Buildings unit which began this week.  Students strongly felt we should stay inside because of the cold, easily connecting the […]

I hope you all stayed warm during the big snow this past weekend and maybe even had a chance to play.  On days when the weather is below 20 degrees, families are welcome to come to the front door to check in instead of waiting outside.  Our room added a number of new activities over […]

Happy Colorado spring!  I’m writing this email while wondering what the weather will be bringing us.  We kicked off our study of Lifecycles this week by talking about how we can be scientists. Scientists ask questions which is something we are really, really good at.  You might already know that!.  They also make observations so […]