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Happy Sunday!   Concepts – Y, Z, Three (3), triangle, green; “proud” and “love” Thanks for the veggies for Healthy Learning Paths! We had a great time cutting veggies and trying guacamole. Next week is our last lesson with Ms. Mercedes and Healthy Learning Paths. In your Friday folders you should have received a survey […]

Dear Families,  Hope you have had a wonderful weekend.  The week ahead is very busy for our preschoolers!  We will be on our final week of our STEM unit Simple Machines and be reading the story Stuck by Oliver Jeffers and then creating a design challenge to figure out what the children would use to […]

Dear Families, We have had a wonderful November with a focus on our STEM unit Simple Machines and also a study of Pumpkins.  Thank-you for all the pumpkin and apple donations!  The children had fun sorting, counting and pounding golf tees into the pumpkins.   Our new STEM unit is Re-duce, Re-use and Re-cycle and this week we […]

NewsWe had a busy November!  This month we focused on the letters Jj, Kk, Ll, and Mm. We also have been working on recognizing numbers 1-5 and counting groups ofitems from 1-5. We have wrapped up our unit on Friends and Family. CurriculumOur next unit of focus is Simple Machines. We will be focusing on concepts such as wheels, levers, and ramps. Because this […]

Ms. Piper’s Class Newsletter 11-30-18 Hello, preschool families! We hope this message finds you well. This is the classroom update for the months of November and December. What We’re Learning We have completed our second STEM Unit, Buildings, and begun our third unit: Music! In this unit, we will explore sounds, rhythm, tempo, and musical […]

Here is a summary of our November 2018 Agenda: 1.  Highlights of Design / Leadership Team and STEM work so far:   Multi-Tiered Systems of Support – 18-19 process ECERS peer feedback AM Professional Development / “Late Start”   Training for work-place skills Hiring STEM – moving on to unit 3 2.  Share philsophical documents with […]

 STEM Profile of the Month:  Reflective Saturday, Dec 1 – Tuition payments due Mon, Dec 3 – Tuesday, Dec 18 – School-wide book and PJ drive Monday, Dec 3 – 8:45 am – 10:45 am – Healthy Learning Paths programmingMonday, Dec 3 – 9:30 – 10:30 am – Open School Tour for parents and the communityMonday, Dec […]

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and received the rest and quality time with family that you hoped for.  We are starting our new STEM unit of Re-duce, Re-use and Recycling and have new toys in the classroom that the children are excited about.  All our classes  have earned our a Parachute […]

Welcome back from Thanksgiving!  I hope you and your families all had a restful and fun break from school.  While not everyone participated in making hats and videos, I hope you checked on SeeSaw to see the I’m Thankful videos we shared before break.  We finished up our Simple Machines unit with trying to help […]

Welcome Back!   I hope you enjoyed your break and are ready to get back into the swing of things. Here are this weeks announcements and reminders:   Concepts – W, X, two (2), prism, yellow; continuing to learn about different kinds of feelings: uncomfortable vs comfortable We are requesting food donations for our Healthy […]