Ms. Amy K’s Update 3-18-2020

Ms. Amy’s Read Aloud!    IMG_0781.MOV  

Ms. Mary’s Update 3-18-2020

Ms. Mary reads Max and Ruby!   video 3:17 Max and Ruby.mov — Mary Stivison, M.Ed., MPPEarly Childhood EducatorSpark! Discovery Preschool  

Ms. Amy K’s Update 3-17-2020

I am trying to send the videos I tried yesterday again.  Please be patient with me as this is new for all of us.  Hope you are doing well and I will be in touch!Best,Amy Kuesel — Amy KueselEarly Childhood Special Education TeacherSPARK! Discovery [email protected]   Movie 1 .MOV  

Ms. Marie’s Update 3-17-2020

Dear Families and Friends, I wanted to send this video to you telling the children that we miss them.  I’m learning about this technology so please let me know if you can’t see it.  I wish you the best and hope to see you and your children soon!  Sincerely, Marie IMG_2658.MOV  — Marie BlochEarly Childhood Special Educator (ECSE)(720) [email protected] […]

Ms. Tori’s Update 3-17-2020

Hello Preschool Families,   I hope that you are doing well and that you are seeing this in the morning. I try and check in earlier tomorrow. I might even try a live check in with Google Hangouts just to test it out. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.Ms. Tori March17th.MOV—Tori MenardEarly Childhood […]

Ms. Amy N’s Update 3-17-2020

Dear Families, Every day at school we do movement to keep our bodies healthy. We get outside or go to the gym and we do structured movement time for 10 minutes a day. Our class used GoNoodle for a lot of our movement activities. There is an app you download to get it on an […]

Ms. Mary’s Update 3-17-2020

I just wanted to send out a quick hello from Sherry and me!  The staff at Spark! is working towards various ways to stay in partnership with families 🙂 Frederick High School is a location where all families can have access to a lunch/breakfast meal.  Meals can be picked up between 11:00-12:30 this week.  All families […]

Ms. Piper’s Update 3-17-2020

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well. I wanted to reach out and let you know I miss seeing everyone. I, as well as the rest of the teachers and paraprofessionals at Spark, are working hard to create online materials and resources for you to use at home, given the unknown of our future […]

Ms. Jess’s Update 3-17-2020

Good Afternoon! Today I have two videos to share with you. The first is of me sharing one of my favorite stories, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The second is a video of Miss Emily and Miss Amy saying the letters and movements to our Fundations letter poster. I hope your family is able to get outside and get […]

Ms. Emily’s Update 3-16-2020

Hello families! I am missing all of the preschoolers and families!  I will continue to communicate through email and Seesaw.  If you do not have access to Seesaw, please let me know.  I plan on doing virtual instruction to keep improving and practicing our preschool skills. The staff is collaborating daily to be the most effective […]

Ms. Kiersten’s Update 3-10-2020

Dear Families,   Many students have shared stories of dinosaurs with me recently.  In honor of their overwhelming interest and enthusiasm, we will spend the two weeks before spring break studying paleontology (the science of fossils).  Our dramatic play center has changed into a Dinosaur Dig! We will be building math, literacy, science, and social […]

Ms. Tori’s 3-8-2020 Update

Hello Preschool Families,      We hope that you enjoyed your weekend! A Week in Review: ·  We participated in a Design Challenge about making lemonade. We worked together in small groups to create our own lemonade using the flavors of strawberry, lime, orange and grapefruit. The students had fun getting to juice the fruit in different […]

Ms. Kiersten’s Update 3-6-2020

We had a lot of fun this week with our final project for the Exercise and Health unit.  Our students loved tasting the different fruits on Monday.  Some discovered that while they’d never had grapefruit  they really like it while the lemons and limes got a lot of sour-pucker faces.  The class got to vote […]

Ms. Rachel’s Update 3-6-2020

Hello!   Here are this week’s announcements and reminders:   Concepts:  Fundations®: q and s Math : data analysis, subitizing practice 4, 5, 6 Stem: Dinosaurs PATHS: feelings review PJ Day this Thursday! Read Across America Week March 16-19! We will celebrate our love of reading with special activities each day:  Monday – Crazy Hair […]

Ms. Amy Newsom’s Update 3-4-2020

Dear Families, Important reminder: Tomorrow is class picture day! It is so nice to have nice weather as we had too many inside recess days this last month! We are finishing up our nursery rhymes unit this week with a focus on our Humpty Dumpty STEM challenge to drop Humpty Dumpty (a hard boiled egg) […]

Mr. Ben’s Update 3-4-2020

What a fun week we have had in preschool! Our students are really enjoying the pet’s unit, and next week will be our last week with this unit. Next week will be our design challenge week, and our students will be planning, drawing, and creating their own pet carrier. We are excited to see what the students come up with. This […]

Ms. Marie’s Update 3-2-2020

Ms. Marie’s March 2020 Newsletter             March 2, 2019   By Marie Bloch   Ms. Marie & Ms. Marlo and Mr. Ben   Dear Preschool Families:   Spring may not be here yet, but there are lots of interesting things going on this month!  Thank you all for your efforts to meet with me for teacher […]

Ms. Jess’s Update 3-4-2020

February’s LearningWe have been focusing on numerals 6-10 as well as measurement. We worked on big/small and tall/short. We will be wrapping up our unit on Nursery Rhymes and for the next two weeks will be reading and retelling Goldilocks and the Three Bears. NO School Spring Break – March 20-27 CurriculumWe will spend the week before Spring Break celebrating Dr. Seuss. There will be a flyer coming […]

Ms. Rachel’s Update 3-3-2020

Hello!   Here are this week’s announcements and reminders: Concepts:  Fundations®: o and a Math : measuring, subitizing practice 4, 5, 6 Stem: Robotics Design Challenge: Create a Robot to Solve a Problem PATHS: furious and guilty Class Picture Day, Thursday, March 5th order forms were sent home in this week’s Thursday folders. Upcoming Free […]

Ms. Nicky’s Update 3-1-2020

Ms. Nicky and Ms. Julie’s News   Thank you to all of you for taking the time to come to conferences!  It was nice to meet with all of you to discuss your child’s accomplishments.  Thank you, too, to all of the families who were able to attend our Valentine’s celebration.  Hopefully, you gained a […]

Ms. Rachel’s Update 2-23-2020

Hello!   Here are this week’s announcements and reminders:   Concepts:  Fundations®: o and a Math : measuring, subitizing practice 4, 5, 6 Stem: Robotics Design Challenge: Create a Robot to Solve a Problem PATHS: furious and guilty Class Picture Day, Thursday, March 5th order forms were sent home in this week’s Thursday folders. Upcoming […]

Ms. Kiersten’s Update 2-19-2020

Starting February with an opportunity to meet with all of you was wonderful.  Thank you so much for coming in to discuss your child’s growth and for being so flexible as the Colorado snow made for some interesting schedule changes.  It was a pleasure to meet with you for the conference and then just a few […]

Mr. Ben’s Update 2-20-2020

Hello families, I hope you enjoyed your long weekend. I certainly did. We have a fun and short week in preschool.  On Tuesday, we did music and movement with rhythm sticks. The students enjoy drumming and rubbing their sticks together as a class to the music. On Wednesday, we did a comparing and measuring small group. During this time, students measured several […]