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!!

November News Letter

October passed quickly, ending with our class Halloween parties! I hope to update the last few months posts with pictures soon!  Our classes for November are halfway over, but I still wanted to post what we've learned and will be learning for the rest of the month so that you can be reviewing at home.
Week 1: Letter Ff, color purple, diamond, and the number 7
Week 2: Letter Oo, color grey, circle, and the number 8
Week 3: Letter Tt, color brown, triangle, and the number 9
              Thanksgiving, and being Grateful!

Our Thanksgiving break will be the week of Nov. 24-28.  I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!

Our next book order is due on November 15th.  This will be the last book order I send in until January.  There are a lot of good deals and fun holiday books for Christmas! Our order will be back the end of November and will be handed out when you get back in December.  I will be handing them to the parents in a sack so that the children don't see incase they are for presents. 

 We have been concentrating more on writing their names this month.  Please make sure as they practice at home that they are following the correct writing technique. I have been enjoying your children so much! Please let me know of any concerns you or your child may be having. 

Thanks!!

October News Letter

The month of September went very well!  I am having so much fun with your children each week!  I will be posting pictures later of some of my favorite lessons and activities that we did in September.
As for October, we have many more fun things planned:

Week 1- Letter P, number 3, color Orange, shape circle.  Working on using scissors & name formation
Week 2- Letter M, number 4, color Green, shape rectangle.  Monster Math, name formation
Week 3- Letter G, number 5, color White, shape Oval.
Week 4- Stranger Danger, Manners, number 6
Week 5- Letter H, number 7, color Black, shape, diamond.  Halloween Party!

Thanks to all of those who ordered from our book order in Sept.  Books should be here today and I will get them handed out the first part of next week, along with a new book order for October.  I will be turning in the book order for October around the 12-15 so that we can get books back in time for Halloween.

Dates to remember: October 29th for the Mon/Wed class and October 30th for the Tues/Thurs class. We will be having a dress up Halloween Party!!

Illness

It's that time of year again when sickness seems to spread with all of the children being so closely confined.  Each day I will be disinfecting the tables and chairs to hopefully eliminate some of the germs as well as having the children sanitize before our daily snack. 
Things you can do to  help:
*Remind your child to sneeze into their elbow so as to not get easily spreadable germs on their hands.
*Send them with a coat or jacket depending on the weather. 
*Keep them home if their symptoms are worse than a slight runny nose. 

This is not meant to alarm anyone, I just saw this link from local news 8 and thought it was worth posting and mentioning.  There have been a few cases in Idaho Falls and so it's always good to keep an eye on your children and be a little cautious.  Thanks!
http://m.localnews8.com/news/respiratory-virus-found-in-idaho/27981578

Scholastic Book Order

At the first of this week I sent home a scholastic book order in your children's backpacks.
I am really excited to be offering this program in our preschool!! Last year we had great success and the children had so much fun getting and reading their new books.  Letting your children help pick out the books you'll be reading, ensures their participation and learning.  Scholastic books are very reasonably priced and make great gifts.  If you are planning on using a specific order for a gift, please let me know and I will be sure to get it to you without your child seeing.
Please do NOT feel obligated to purchase books. 
With the scholastic reading club:
*You can choose from handpicked, grade-and reading-level-specific books for your child.
*Every book you buy earns free books for our classroom library
*You'll find the best values on a variety of formats, including eBooks. 
Together you can choose from books hand-selected by teachers and experts, and then order online or by turning in your order form to me.

*For easy access to the scholastic website, you can click on the Scholastic Books link on the left sidebar.
*Visit scholastic.com/readingclub
*Enter the one-time class activation code.  Our classroom activation code is MPG73.
*Submit your order.
* All book orders will be shipped to our classroom and I will hand them out to you.

Our order this month will need to be turned in by Sept 20. 
Thanks so much!  If you have any questions please let me know.

September News Letter

We have officially completed our first day/week of preschool! It was so fun to see the different things that your children brought to show and tell about themselves.  For the month of September we have several exciting things planned.  Please remember that your children learn a lot through repetition during the early years in their lives; I encourage you to incorporate the same things we are learning at school into your daily routine to help your children learn even faster and understand better.  These next few weeks will go as follows:

Week 2:  Name recognition, rules, assessments, overview of shapes and colors, basic fundamentals of writing.
               This week we will focus on easing your children into preschool with a few fun activities.  Most of this week will be spent doing the assessment on your children to see where they are at and what we will need to focus on during the school year.  We will not be studying a letter this week.

Week 3:  Letter A, Theme: Apples, colors: red and green, circle shape number 1

Week 4:  Letter L, lines, leaves, number 2, color yellow, name page.

Just as a reminder: The week that your child has the snack I will be sending home the bucket on the first preschool day that week and you will bring it back for snack on the second day of preschool for that week.  Hopefully this gives everyone enough time, however, the snack list is on the side bar for anyone that wants to know more in advance.  Occasionally there are changes made to this if a student isn't able to bring it for some reason.

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School Will Begin...

We are down to just one week left before classes will start.  I hope everyone has received their letter in the mail with our first day project included.  I'm excited to meet and learn all about your children and can't wait to see the cute little faces of those returning from last year!  Thanks for checking out our classroom blog.  Please return often to see new updates including our class snack lists, and this months curriculum.  See you all in a week!!