Reminder! Winter break begins- December 24-January 9th. If you came to the parent/child activity on Friday, you hopefully gained some great new ideas of activities to do at home with your child! Research suggests reading 2+ books to your child daily is essential from their brain development. Use the break to catch up on some good reading!
See you on January 9th!
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This week will be our last week until winter break! We are finishing up our unit on gingerbread men. We will be reading The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School and doing a scavenger hunt to find him using clues to guide our way. On Thursday, we will be decorating gingerbread cookies. While we set up for decorating, the children will be watching the Snowy Day in the annex. If you signed up to help, we will see you at 10:30 (am) or 2:45(pm). Friday, we will be having a Parent/Child Activity from 9:15-10:30 in the cafeteria. Parents will be let in the building at 9:10. Please remember to help your child learn to independently put on their hat, coat, scarf, boots, snow pants at home. We want our students to be able to dress themselves as much as possible. If you can purchase mittens rather than gloves, we would much appreciate it. Mittens are much easier for kids to put on independently. We have been practicing putting on our winter gear in the following order: 1st snow pants (if you have on shoes you must take them off first), 2nd. Snow boots 3rd. Sweaters & Coats 4th. Hats & scarves 5th Mittens or Gloves. It would be really helpful if you practiced the same order at home as well. Once the weather warms up will resume going outdoors to play. We will go out and explore in the snow. Please be sure to dress your child in snow boots and snow pants. Waterproof gloves/mittens are also helpful. If you have any snow pants or boots that you would like to donate to our classroom (for children who do not have them) we would be very grateful. Thank you again for all your assistance with the new arrival and dismissal procedure. When there is inclement weather the Pre-K staff will open the doors 5 minutes early so that parents and children can sit at the back three tables of the cafeteria instead of waiting in the frigid weather. Thanks! Have a great break! Mandi Heiser [email protected] Reminder!
We want to thank all of the parents who have complied with new entry and exit procedure. Our first priority is ensuring everyone’s safety and wellbeing. Please be sure to only enter the building when Preschool Staff member opens the doors. We realize that others may be trying to be kind or helpful by opening the doors for you, but we need to abide by the new system. If a child, or another parent opens the door before the set time of enter/exit, simply refuse to enter and let the child or other parent know that you are waiting for the preschool staff to open the doors. Thank you for your assistance in making our school safe for everyone. Dear Parents,
We just wrapped up our first week of our Gingerbread unit. We read the story the Gingerbread Man and the Gingerbread Girl (which the kids adore). Next week, we will read the Gingerbread Pirates and The Gingerbread Cowboy. We will be creating charts that compare the stories and we will create a Venn diagram that compares the two stories and will be sequencing the stories (focusing on the remembering the beginning, middle and end). Students will also be writing about how they would plan on catching the gingerbread man (would they create a trap, use a net, dig a hole, ect). We will be focusing on number 4 with our math talks. Our letter of the week is T. Please send in your small picture that begins with T no later than Thursday. Don’t forget to write your child’s name on the picture! We will have a Parent/Child Activity on December 23rd in the cafeteria from 9:15-10:30. There will be no regular class that day. Also on December 22nd, we will be decorating a gingerbread cookie. PLEASE let me know if your child has an allergy! The cookies can be very expensive for me and the other pre-k teachers to purchase, so we are asking for parents to donate items to decorate with. There will be a list of supplies you can sign up to purchase next to the sign in area. Remember winter break is from December 24-January 8th. Please remember to help your child learn to independently put on their hat, coat, scarf, boots, snowpants at home. We want our students to be able to dress themselves as much as possible. If you can purchase mittens rather than gloves, we would much appreciate it. Mittens are much easier for kids to put on independently. If you are unable to provide a winter coat, boots, gloves or other cold weather clothing, please do not hesitate to talk to me. I help find these items to donate to your child. Have a wonderful week and we appreciate your patients with the new entrance and exit routine! Thanks! Mandi Heiser [email protected] |
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