First Day

Hello,

We have successfully had our first day!  I am so excited for this school year! Your children are so much fun!  I was able to snap a few photos today of the 4yr old class. I am still in awe at how well behaved they are!  Thanks to all of the parents for helping to make today such a success.

May news letter

The final weeks of school are here! Your kids have all been so much fun to get to know and watch grow!  This next month we have several fun things going on; one week in which will be our class assessments. Please help your children review their letters and numbers and any shapes or colors they may be having a hard time with as well as practicing writing their names. Thank you so much for all you do with them at home to help them with repetition of what we learn in the classroom.
Week 1- letter Xx, rectangle, color black, pirates, mothers
Week 2- Review of everything we've learned
Week 3- Assessments
Week 4- Class party at Iona park and graduation for those who will be moving on to kindergsrten next year. I will be sending home more details on dates and times for this week.

* May 25 is Memorial Day. We will not have class on this day
* May 26-27 class field trip to Iona park
* May 28- graduation for those going to kindergarten next year.

April News Letter

Welcome back from our week off for spring break. I hope everyone had a nice vacation. With just two months left of school, our four-year olds have started working hard and preparing for the end of year graduation program along with our regular curriculum. I will be sending parts for our play home with a few of them, but most of them will be able to work on it during school. Our class agenda for the month of April will go as follows:

Week 1-Letter Ee, number 8, color white, oval shape. We will be having an Easter egg hunt as well this week. :)
Week 2-Letter Uu, number 9, color yellow, rectangle shape. Spring time.
Week 3-Letter Nn, number 10, color brown, circle shape.
Week 4-Letter Bb, color black, bees, birds, things that fly.
Week 5-Letter Ii, color grey, counting, matching, things that are cold.

Book orders are being sent home this week and will be due by April 20th. This will be our last book order for the school year so now is the time to get some books or activities if you are wanting some for summer reading. Again, our classroom code is MPG73. Thanks so much!

Also, I am now taking registration forms for the upcoming 2015/2016 school year.  Classes are filling up quickly so  please fill out and turn in a registration form ASAP so that I know to save your spot.  If you have already talked with me, your child is already on the list and will still need a form filled out to hold their spot. Registration fees aren't due until June.  You can find a form by clicking on the 3yr/4yr preschool link above on the right hand sidebar or you can pick one up from me anytime.  Thanks so much!!!

Dental Hygiene

Our Dental Hygiene Lesson was one of my favorites. The kids got to decide what foods make our teeth happy or sad. We colored plaque on dry erase teeth and practiced our brushing skills by using pom poms to clean them off. For our snack, we had little mouths made of apples, marshmallows, and peanut butter. The kids loved these and had fun putting them up to their own mouths. I think they had the most fun with our lego/playdough flossing activity where they used yarn as floss to get all of the food out of the "teeth". This will definitely be something we do every year!

March News Letter

We will kick off the month of March with Dr. Seuss week! Wednesday and Thursday your children are invited to wear a hat if they would like to.  This is a fun time to get them excited about reading!

I will be putting in a book order on March 10th.  This will be the time to order if you are wanting books for Easter.  I have coupons for a free $5 book when you spend $10. If you would like one, please let me know. 

* The week of March 23-27 we will be out of school for SPRING break. 

The month of March will go as follows:

Week 1- Dr. Seuss week.  Rhyming, counting, reading, graphing. 
Week 2- Letter Jj, color orange, diamond shape, number 6
Week 3- Letter Rr, circle shape, colors of the rainbow, leprechaun counting, number 7
Week 4- Spring Break. No School.      

The first week in April we will be making Easter bunnies for our egg hunt out of milk cartons.  If you have a gallon size milk jug that you can send with your child on or before March 30th,  31st that would be great! I'll have extras here if you don't drink milk or have an extra jug.  Thank you so much!  I enjoy teaching your children so much!

February News Letter

I'm very happy with how things are going thus far in our classroom.  Several of the kids have learned how to write their names, and many are close, with needing just a few letters in their names. Please remember to use the Danelion writing paper for instruction on how each letter should be written when practicing at home.  If you lost this paper or need another one, please let me know. 

Our February schedule goes as follows:
Week 1-Letter Vv, colors pink and red, number 4, heart shape
Week 2- Letter Vv, Valentine Party! Please remember your valentines with just your    childs name on them.  Mon/Wed class will be on the 11th. There are 10 kids in the class.  Tues/Thurs class will be on the 12th.  There are 11 kids in the class.  Thanks!
Week 3-Letter Dd, Dental Hygiene,  color brown, number 5, oval shape
Week 4-Letter Zz, color black, number 6, square shape

December News Letter

I have made a change to our schedule for this month.  Due to both our Christmas party and assessments this moth I don't feel like we will have the amount of time I feel like we will need to go over three letters. We will be learning letter C for both Week 2 and Week 3 and continue with letter S when we come back in January. 

Thanks so much!!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break!  We have now been in school for 3 months. This means it's once again time for assessment testing.  During the next two weeks I will be doing assessments in-between our other classroom activities and they will be sent home with your children that same day or shortly after.  Also going on in December

Week 1:  Letter W, Winter time and what to Wear in the Winter time.  Rectangles, and the color blue.
                We will not be doing a number for any of the weeks in December.
Week 2:  Letter S, color white, shape circle
Week 3:  Letter C, colors green and red, Christmas, shape star. Christmas party!

We will not have school the last week in December.  We will start our Christmas break on Dec. 22nd and begin again on Jan. 5th.  Thanks so much!!