Hello Preschool Families!!
We hope that you are enjoying your long weekend.
A Week in Review:
· We started our unit on Family and Friends by talking about who are in our families, We also talked about how people grow. We talked about how you start as a baby and then grow into an adult. We compared our life cycle to that of a butterfly and found that we have more steps as well as it takes longer for us to become an adult.
· We learned about Fire Safety from the Frederick-Firestone Fire Department. We learned that the beeps from the fire alarm mean Get Out Now and that we need to know where our meeting place is if there ever was a fire. We also practiced what we do if our clothes were to catch on fire. We know to stop, drop and roll covering our face with our hands.
· We worked with letters, Mm and Nn. We talked about things that started with that letter and how to form that letter. We practiced saying the sound with Baby Echo
· We talked about the color, Brown. We looked who was wearing the color and where we could find it in our classroom and outside. We sang this song about the color Brown:
BROWN
(Tune: BINGO)
THERE IS A COLOR WE ALL KNOW.
CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IT IS?
B-R-O-W-N.
B-R-O-W-N.
B-R-O-W-N.
THAT’S HOW YOU SPELL BROWN.
TEDDY BEARS AND SQUIRRELS ARE BROWN.
AUTUMN LEAVES ARE TOO.
CHOCOLATE CANDY IS ALWAYS BROWN.
CHOCOLATE CAKE IS ALWAYS BROWN.
CHOCOLATE MILK IS ALWAYS BROWN.
I LIKE BROWN, DON’T YOU?
What to Expect:
· Letters: Oo and Pp
· The number: Six , 6
· The color: Black
· STEM Unit: Family & Friends Unit Starts: How are Families the same? How are they different?
Thank you for your support working with your preschooler at home really makes a differences!
Important Dates:
· Oct. 8th – Nov. 16th: STEM Unit 2 Starts: Family and Friends
· Oct. 18th: Love and Logic Class #4
o 6:00pm – 7:30pm
· Oct. 19th: (Friday, Preschool Only) No School for Gold Assessment Input and Finalization
· Oct. 22nd: Volunteer Training
o 4pm – 5:30pm
o Taught by Tori Menard and Kiersten Pierpoint
· Oct. 26th: Trick or Treat Street
o 4:30pm – 4:50pm – Low Sensory soft start
o 4:50pm – 6:00pm
o Spark! Discovery Preschool
o Please bring in donated candy by Oct. 24th
· Oct. 31st: Halloween
o No costumes at school
School News/District News:
Community Resources: We have information to connect families with local agencies regarding mental health, child nutrition, physical fitness, food bank, child find, medical and dental resources, in several locations:
1) In a notebook in the front office,
2) In our parent flyer stand at the front entrance
3) On our school website at http://sdpk.svvsd.org/
4) The black table at the front of the school also has activity packets for parents to take in English and Spanish (when possible)
Volunteering at Spark!:
We welcome parent, guardian, and grandparent volunteers and want you to be involved. For preschool, it is required by licensing that volunteer training be offered and attended to volunteer in classrooms or the school. This is a session where children over the age of 6 months should not be present. The next session for training, offered will be on Monday, October 22nd from 4:00pm to 5:30pm by teachers, Kiersten Pierpoint and Tori Menard. After that, there will be a training in January, February, and March offered at various times.
Speaking of volunteering, we are looking for an office squad of volunteers this school year to better assist our teachers in clerical ways (copying, laminating, stapling, sorting, etc). Sometimes, children have a difficult time at this age having a family member volunteer in the classroom, as it can be difficult with separation, anxiety, or behaviors. If you’d like to volunteer but know the classroom will be a difficult space, we are looking for a volunteer in the office for each session of preschool in the AM and PM Monday through Thursday, for a total of eight dependable, reliable volunteers each week. This will help teachers across the school make the best use of their planning time during the week and on Fridays. We already have a volunteer on Monday and Wednesday mornings! Please consider assisting our staff in this manner if the idea of being in the classroom doesn’t appeal to you. The below training is required. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected].
· 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
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Mrs. Tori