Author: ford_aaron

Dear Families, I hope you enjoyed your nice long weekend.  This week we only have school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  There is NO school for MWF children this Friday, January 25th,  teachers will be at school working on paperwork.   This week the weather is supposed to get cold again, so please dress children accordingly.  Also, […]

Ms. Piper’s Class Newsletter 1-18-19 Hello, preschool families! We hope this message finds you well. This is the classroom update for the month of January. What We’re Learning We are currently on our 4th STEM Unit, Life Cycles of Plants and Insects. In this unit, we are focusing on what insects are and what their life cycles […]

Hello Preschool Families!!   We hope that you are enjoying your weekend! A Week in Review: ·      We started our fourth STEM Unit on Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We talked about trash and what people throw away. We had a fun walk around the inside of the school to count and see how many trash cans and […]

Dear Preschool Families and Friends,      Parent/teacher winter conferences are just around the corner!  Please read below about the process to indicate your preferences for conference times. Parent/Teacher Winter Conference Time Preference Forms: I will begin scheduling conference times beginning Tuesday, January 29th.  I will be sending home forms tomorrow in your child’s backpack […]

Hello!  Concepts: letters/sounds – A, R; sight words – “is”, “am”; eight (8), rhombus, black No School next Monday, January 21st in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. If you haven’t already done so, we’d love to have each child’s baby pic for our Friends and Family unit. You can email them to me, […]

STEM Units 4, 5, and 6 : Preschoolers in every classroom will be instructed in 6 units each year; these units of instruction represent the school’s comprehensive plan for high-quality, STEM-based inquiry, which are taught in all classrooms.  These 6 units of STEM are different than the previous year’s units so that children are being exposed to […]

Important Dates – January 2019 January 1, 2019  Tuition Due for January Month of January  STEM profile:  CURIOSITY!  January 7, 2019  Return to school from winter break Jan 7 – 18, 2019  Preschool registration for 2019 – 2020 begins, and continues throughout the rest of the year Dec 21 – Jan 11, 2019 Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) […]

This morning, with the Carbon Valley Rotary, we celebrated 4 community heroes, all who have done the good work of being a great community member. However, one was most important to us — Nicky Willis, one of our preschool teachers, who received an Outstanding Educator award. Read more about here nomination here: Nicky Willis is […]

Happy Sunday! Concepts: letters/sounds – C, K; sight words – “the”, “a”; Seven (7), oval, gray Our current STEM unit is Friends and Family and we’d greatly appreciate baby pics of all of your kiddos. You can send in a hard copy or email them to me as well. A list of sight words that […]

Dear Families, The children did a wonderful job settling back into the school routine this past week.  Some were tired by the end of the week, which is understandable.  Please try to take the time to have your child go potty prior to coming to school, I think we broke a record for potty breaks […]