Ms. Piper’s Class Newsletter 10-9-18

 

Hello, preschool families! We hope this message finds you well. This is the classroom update for the month of October.

 

What We’re Learning

We have completed our first STEM Unit, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! This week we began our second unit, Buildings. In this unit, we will explore what kind of buildings are in our community, what they are used for, what they are made of, and how they are built. So far, the children have enjoyed constructing their own buildings and investigating the tools and vehicles used for building.

 

In literacy, the children have been practicing writing and recognizing their names, and have begun writing uppercase letters and learning their sounds. Hopefully, you have seen the homework pages in their Thursday folders. The homework is an extension of the learning we are doing in the classroom. It is entirely optional; however, we do have small prizes as an incentive for children who complete theirs and bring it back!

 

In math, we have been doing counting activities, particularly with numbers 1 through 5. We count by rote, count objects, subitize (quickly identify “how many” without manually counting each item), and learn the order the numbers go in. We have also begun to work on identifying numbers.

 

Parent Teacher Conferences

Thank you so much for making the time to meet with me to talk about your child. It was so rewarding to get this time to speak with each family individually. I am moved by how invested every single parent is in their child’s learning. With parents like you, these kids are going to go far!

 

Family Photos

Thank you to everyone who has sent a family photo for our wall! If you have not, please send one (either printed or by email) if you can, so we can out it up for your child to look at and tell us about!

 

Seesaw

Last Friday, I sent out an email with instructions for accessing Seesaw, an app where I can share your child’s learning with you at home. If you need help figuring it out, let me know. Also, while I am using the permissions you signed at the beginning of the year to determine what is shared through this platform, let me know if you DO NOT want your child’s work or photos to be used on Seesaw. What I upload can only be seen by families whose child is tagged in each entry, but sometimes there might be more than one child in each one. If this is not okay with you, tell me and I will figure out how to mask their faces or make individual posts for those children.

 

Important Dates

·       Thursday, October 11: Fire Prevention visit form Frederick/Firestone Fire Protection

·      Friday, October 12: Non-student contact day

·      Monday, October 15: Non-student contact day

·      Thursday, October 18, 6:00 Parenting with Love and Logic Class #4

·      Friday, October 19: No preschool

·      Monday, October 22, 4:00: Parent Volunteer Training

·      Friday, October 26, 4:30-6:00: Trick-or-Treat Street at Spark!

·      Wednesday, October 31: Halloween—We do not have a party or wear costumes to school. Please celebrate Halloween with us at Trick-or-Treat Street!

·      Thursday, Nov 8, 5-8 pm – PTO Chick-fil-A spirit night

·      Thursday, Nov 15: PJ Day

·      Wednesday, Nov 14: Picture Retake Day

Parent Volunteers

Please consider volunteering in our classroom or in the office! Volunteers must attend volunteer training offered by the school before starting to volunteer in preschool, due to licensing rules and regulations.

· Monday, August 13, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm -completed

· Friday, September 21 from 9 am – 10:30 am -completed

· Monday, October 22 from 4 – 5:30 pm

· Friday, January 18th from 9 am – 10:30 am

· Tuesday, February 19 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm

· Friday, March 15 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm

 

Ms. Piper, Ms. Jen, and Ms. JJ