Author: ford_aaron

Good Afternoon! Today I have two videos to share with you. The first is of me sharing one of my favorite stories, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The second is a video of Miss Emily and Miss Amy saying the letters and movements to our Fundations letter poster. I hope your family is able to get outside and get […]

Hello families! I am missing all of the preschoolers and families!  I will continue to communicate through email and Seesaw.  If you do not have access to Seesaw, please let me know.  I plan on doing virtual instruction to keep improving and practicing our preschool skills. The staff is collaborating daily to be the most effective […]

Dear Families,   Many students have shared stories of dinosaurs with me recently.  In honor of their overwhelming interest and enthusiasm, we will spend the two weeks before spring break studying paleontology (the science of fossils).  Our dramatic play center has changed into a Dinosaur Dig! We will be building math, literacy, science, and social […]

Hello Preschool Families,      We hope that you enjoyed your weekend! A Week in Review: ·  We participated in a Design Challenge about making lemonade. We worked together in small groups to create our own lemonade using the flavors of strawberry, lime, orange and grapefruit. The students had fun getting to juice the fruit in different […]

We had a lot of fun this week with our final project for the Exercise and Health unit.  Our students loved tasting the different fruits on Monday.  Some discovered that while they’d never had grapefruit  they really like it while the lemons and limes got a lot of sour-pucker faces.  The class got to vote […]

Hello!   Here are this week’s announcements and reminders:   Concepts:  Fundations®: q and s Math : data analysis, subitizing practice 4, 5, 6 Stem: Dinosaurs PATHS: feelings review PJ Day this Thursday! Read Across America Week March 16-19! We will celebrate our love of reading with special activities each day:  Monday – Crazy Hair […]

Dear Families, Important reminder: Tomorrow is class picture day! It is so nice to have nice weather as we had too many inside recess days this last month! We are finishing up our nursery rhymes unit this week with a focus on our Humpty Dumpty STEM challenge to drop Humpty Dumpty (a hard boiled egg) […]

What a fun week we have had in preschool! Our students are really enjoying the pet’s unit, and next week will be our last week with this unit. Next week will be our design challenge week, and our students will be planning, drawing, and creating their own pet carrier. We are excited to see what the students come up with. This […]

Ms. Marie’s March 2020 Newsletter             March 2, 2019   By Marie Bloch   Ms. Marie & Ms. Marlo and Mr. Ben   Dear Preschool Families:   Spring may not be here yet, but there are lots of interesting things going on this month!  Thank you all for your efforts to meet with me for teacher […]

February’s LearningWe have been focusing on numerals 6-10 as well as measurement. We worked on big/small and tall/short. We will be wrapping up our unit on Nursery Rhymes and for the next two weeks will be reading and retelling Goldilocks and the Three Bears. NO School Spring Break – March 20-27 CurriculumWe will spend the week before Spring Break celebrating Dr. Seuss. There will be a flyer coming […]