In light of school safety issues nationally, Ray is tightening security procedures for both student arrival and dismissal. Please understand our purpose for doing this is to keep every student in our school safe and to eliminate the possibility of any intruders.
During the entrance, parents will be asked to line up WITH THEIR CHILD outside of the glass doors outside of the annex (door 18-closest to 57th street). Room 411 families will line up on the left of the annex doors. Parents and students will be escorted into the building with classroom staff. Staff will be walking parents into the building at 8:45/1:10 SHARP. If you arrive after 8:45/1:10, you will need to walk to the main entrance to get a pass. Parents will enter the room, help their child take off their coats, sign their child in/out and exit through the classroom exit near the cubbies. For pick up, parents will line up outside of the annex glass doors. A teacher will escort parents into the building at dismissal. Parents will be brought in at 11:20/3:45 SHARP. If you are late, you will need to get a pass from the main office. After walking in the building with a staff member, parents will come into the room, get their child and leave through the classroom doors by the cubbies. Parents cannot leave through any other door beside the classroom exit. Please be aware that other classes of children may be playing outside so please be cognoscente while you are walking. Thank-you for your understanding and for helping keep Ray as safe as it can be!
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Due to a recent safety concern. starting Monday, November 21, 2016, Pre-K parents will not be allowed to wait in the building for their students to be released. Parents/caregivers cannot enter the building before class starts or before dismissal time without going to the office first.
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We will finish our discussions on Thanksgiving this week by reading the stories Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks, Give Thanks for Each Day and There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey. We will be having discussions on our family traditions and what we are thankful for in our lives. Remember! We do not have school Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Over these days off, be sure to read with your child (3 books a day is what is recommended), have them help you cook and discuss your family traditions. The week of November 28th, we will be learning about the letter F. Please help your child find a small picture of something that starts with the letter F for our collage book. Please send this in no later than December 1. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Mandi Heiser [email protected] Parents,
Last week, we really enjoyed studying about leaves! The AM class went on a leaf walk with our 4th grade peer buddies (the pm class went on a leaf walk as well, but without peer buddies J). They had to pick 10 different leaves and we pressed those leaves in the classroom. We will use them for an art project next week. This week we will continue learning about fall and also learning about Thanksgiving. We will be discussing holiday traditions including what we eat, who we spend our holiday with and why spending time with those we love is important. We will be talking about the importance of caring for our friends/community and treating one another with care, respect, compassion and gratitude. We will be continuing to read our informational leaf books and reading some books about Thanksgiving including The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. In small groups, students will be sequencing the story There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and they will be creating a number museum for the number two. We will be starting our math talks this week. Math talks are a way for students to understand numbers in a deeper way that involves communication and discourse. Students are encouraged to talk out the way they solve problems and prove their answer. In pre-school, this looks like students showing different ways to create a number through visual representation, 10-frames, the written numeral and pictures. After we have participated in our math talk as a whole group, students are encouraged to create the number we have studied using objects like counting cubes. They create the number and verbally defend how they made that number and add it to a class number museum where students can look at their creation but not touch (just like a REAL museum). This type of teaching is a great way for students to get hands on experience with numbers in a developmentally appropriate way that they can remember. We will be starting the letter of the week this week. The first letter we will study is L. Please send in a small picture of something that begins with L by Thursday. Remember, we do our letter in the way that they are introduced by our Handwriting curriculum (Hand Writing without Tears). This helps students learn to write each letter in a developmentally appropriate way. Thanks to all of you who came to parent teacher conferences. It was wonderful to talk to you about your children! Thanks! Mandi Heiser [email protected] |
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