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Positive Behavior Intervention & Supports: S.T.A.R. stands for… WE… S = Stay SAFE T = Use TEAMWORK A = ACT responsibly  R = RESPECT self and others Our Positive Behavior Intervention & Supports (PBIS) aims to recognize and reward children who are showing S.T.A.R. behaviors. In December, we are hosting a dance party for classes earning the positive behavior reward! 

We want to inform parents of what we are assessing across the course of 2 years of preschool (these are expectations for typically developing children leaving preschool for kindergarten). Here’s a summary of the skills children need to have mastered by the end of preschool in Language.  Sharing these expectations with parents, a child’s first […]

What an exciting week we’ve had!  We started off the week reading Humpty Dumpty by Daniel Kirk.  We liked this story, maybe because so many of us like to climb but dislike getting hurt.  We all agreed that Humpty needed a way to stay safe while climbing.  So we talked about things we do to […]

Ms. Marie’s November 2017 Newsletter      October 31, 2017 By Marie Bloch Ms. Marie & Ms. Julie’s Monthly News Dear Preschool Families: It was a delight to see some of you and your children at Trick-or-Treat Street!  November is here and we are in the middle of our Nursery Rhyme STEM unit.  In the nursery rhyme, […]

Hi Families! Can you believe that it’s almost Thanksgiving break?!  I just wanted to send a few reminders about things we have going on at Spark! this week.  The Canned Food Drive runs until the end of this week.  Thank you to all of the families who have donated!  We really appreciate it!   We also have […]

Dear Parents, This week will be our final week of our STEM unit on Robots.  We will be wrapping up the unit with a STEM project where students build a robot to help our classroom.  If you have some smaller size boxes please continue to send them in.  We will also read the story, Bear Says […]

Hello Families, I can’t believe November is here already!  October went by in a blur with visits from the fire department, the school bus, building a new vehicle for traveling, fall explorations and then Halloween.  I hope you all got a chance to view your child’s group creation for the Transportation design challenge while they […]

Hello Preschool Parents, We hope you are all having a wonderful Halloween! We can’t wait to hear the kids’ trick-or-treating stories tomorrow. Tomorrow, we will be going to the Spark library. Children whose parents have given permission for them to check out books will be coming home with library books tomorrow. These are due back the […]

Hello, Preschool parents!  Over the last two weeks, our class participated in the Design Challenge Process. Design Challenges are open-ended, creative projects where students work together to solve a real-world problem. In this case, we read a book called A Home for Dixie, then challenged the children to create some kind of carrier that would help us […]

Hello Preschool Parents, Tomorrow afternoon, we will be having hearing and vision screenings here at Spark. All children are screened, and there will be information about it in your child’s Thursday folder this week. Additionally, we will be attending a Fire Prevention Presentation here at the school. Firefighters will talk to the children about fire safety, […]