Hello Preschool Families!!  

 We hope that you enjoyed your weekend!

A Week in Review:

·      We continued our music unit. We talked about different instrument families. We listened to music being played by each of the instrument families. We went to Makerspace and made our own percussion instruments with our practicum student, Ms. Sunny

·      We worked on the number, 20. We counted 20 objects and practiced how to write the numeral 20.

·      We worked with letters, Xx and Yy. We talked about things that started with that letter and how to form that letter. We practiced saying the sound with Baby Echo. We also practiced writing the letters

·      We worked with the sight word, and. We practiced writing them, and reading it in a book.

What to Expect:

·       Letters:  Qq and Zz

·       Sight Word: in

·       The number: starting to talk money – $0.01, One Cent

·       The color: Color Mixing – Green

·       The shape: Cube

·       STEM Unit #5 – Music: Design Challenge

Thank you for your support working with your preschooler at home really makes a differences!

Important Dates:

·      Feb. 19^th– Mar. 22^nd: STEM Unit 5: Music

·      Feb. 25^th – Mar. 15^th: Butter Braid Fundraiser

o   Order Forms will be coming home in Thursday Folders

o   This fundraiser will help to support buying sensory materials for the classrooms

·    March 15^th: Volunteer Training

o   1:00pm – 2:00pm

·    March 21^st: PJ Day

o   Please bring a $1 to support PTO

·    March 21^st: Starpower Reward Party – Stuffy Day

·    March 25^th – 29^th: Spring Break

A reminder that as, the weather starts to get colder, Please make sure that your child comes with a coat / gloves / hat (please put their name on the inside tag) because we also value getting kids outside to play! If you child doesn’t know how to put on their coat or work their zippers, it’s something to start actively teaching and practicing. Now is also the time to “winterize” the 2nd set of clothes in your child’s backpack.  They also may have grown too.

News from PTO:

We are excited to announce a new program with King Soopers!!! There are no more reloadable gift cards! This new program attaches to your Sooper card.

You register your Sooper Card and attach Spark Discovery Preschool and then every time you use your Sooper card, a percentage comes back to Spark!!!

Here are the instructions to start:

·      To Use the King Soopers or City Market Community Rewards Program:

·      Simply encourage your participants to visit the appropriate link below..

·      For King Soopers Stores – go to http://www.kingsoopers.com

·      Once logged into their King Soopers or City Market account they can search for Spark Discovery Preschool PTO either by name or HE297 and then click Enroll. New users will need to create an account which requires some basic information, a valid email address and a rewards card.

*Customers must have a registered King Soopers or City Market rewards card account to link to your organization.

*If a member does not yet have a King Soopers or City Market rewards card, please let them know they are available at the customer service desk at any King Soopers or City Market

REMEMBER, purchases will not count for your organization until after your participants register their rewards card. Participants must swipe their registered King Soopers or City Market rewards card or use the phone number that is related to their registered King Soopers or City Market rewards card when shopping for each purchase to count.

 

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/community-resources.

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 Friday, March 15 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm

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 – completed

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

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

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

 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Tori and Ms. Julie Jennings (Ms. JJ)