It SHOULD be snowing, but alas, it is not. We won't let that get us down. We are still talking all about snow. We will watch some timelapsed video of major snow fall observing clouds and what the snow does to trees and bushes. We will be creating snow and designing our own hats and mittens as well. Here are some fun things you can do at home.
http://ucreatewithkids.blogspot.com/2011/01/tutorial-cotton-rounds-snowman.html
http://mymontessorijourney.typepad.com/my_montessori_journey/2011/01/felt-snowflake-building.html
a messy yet fun one!
http://itsybitsylearners.blogspot.com/2011/01/winter-preschool-theme-painting-snow.html
At the end of the week, we will start the Solar System. We will be talking about all the planets, the sun, stars and the moon. These is going to be a cross curricular unit and will last through the end of January. The field trip at the end of the month ties into this unit.
Remember to ask them questions pertaining to their units. Ask them about some silly poetry Mrs. Tanya read or to tell you what do the clouds look like when it snows. They are just 3,4 and 5. Many times it's not natural for them to vividly describe their day. It is up to you to ask the right questions.
FINALLY, we welcome Lily, Nicolas and Alex to The Academy Prek class. Lily will be with Mrs. Kim and Alex and Nicolas will be in my room. We hope to be joined by a few more this year.
God Bless and stay warm!!!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Welcome back. I hope you all had fun playing in the snow and spending a lot of time together. I know we did at my house.
Tomorrow we return back to the same routine. This can be hard, especially on the younger ones. Please help them by remembering their nap stuff if they are full time and get them to school on time. Being tardy on the first day back makes things rough.
Remember to have them in their snow/warm winter gear as they will be going outside as long as it is above 30 and not raining. This is good for the children. Not only do they burn some much needed energy, but this also helps in killing off some germs. Speaking of germs, remember to practice coughing in the elbow or in a tissue and BLOWING and WIPING noses in tissues.
Upon return, we will be focusing on poems, snow and the solar system. January will have many engaging events in store. We have our new Science program which starts Jan. 12th with Samantha. We will also have lunch with our senior friends from Central Baptist on Jan. 10th. We have a day off on the 17th to celebrate the wonderful works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We will also be taking a whole school trip to the Adler Planetarium on Jan. 25th. More details on that will come home later this week. On January 30th, we will celebrate the beginning of Catholic Schools week with an all school/family mass. It is a Sunday followed by an open house. Please plan not only on coming, but bringing an interested family.
As always, be safe, be warm and God Bless!
Tanya
Tomorrow we return back to the same routine. This can be hard, especially on the younger ones. Please help them by remembering their nap stuff if they are full time and get them to school on time. Being tardy on the first day back makes things rough.
Remember to have them in their snow/warm winter gear as they will be going outside as long as it is above 30 and not raining. This is good for the children. Not only do they burn some much needed energy, but this also helps in killing off some germs. Speaking of germs, remember to practice coughing in the elbow or in a tissue and BLOWING and WIPING noses in tissues.
Upon return, we will be focusing on poems, snow and the solar system. January will have many engaging events in store. We have our new Science program which starts Jan. 12th with Samantha. We will also have lunch with our senior friends from Central Baptist on Jan. 10th. We have a day off on the 17th to celebrate the wonderful works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We will also be taking a whole school trip to the Adler Planetarium on Jan. 25th. More details on that will come home later this week. On January 30th, we will celebrate the beginning of Catholic Schools week with an all school/family mass. It is a Sunday followed by an open house. Please plan not only on coming, but bringing an interested family.
As always, be safe, be warm and God Bless!
Tanya
Saturday, December 18, 2010
December has come and is nearly over!
First off, I apologize for NOT blogging much this month. We have been extremely busy. Things are winding down just in time to wind back up for YOU at home with your sweet little one.
We have finished our unit on The Elves and The Shoemaker. The kids all loved it. Our next unit is Jingles, poems and other rhymes. We have already begun practicing rhyming words. Try asking your child to make rhyming words at home. We count nonsense words as well as conventional words. Try to stress the end sounds so they don't get confused. For example say tED not Ted. Rhyming is with ending sounds. You might hear Ten as a rhyming word, just remind them of the ED not EN sounds.
Stories and songs with Santa was a blast. I was so excited to see all the new faces and my old favorites too. The children seemed to have great fun. This Tuesday, the 21, we will have our PJ and Polar Express day. All children are invited to stay the whole day to join in on the fun! After that, they are all yours until January 5th.
I will blog once over vacation. I will remind you all of upcoming January events. The biggest news for the children is that Scientist of the week will begin the second week of January. Our first scientist is Samantha W with her dad. We can't wait to start this project.
Until next year, I wish you tons of happiness and love over this holiday season. Be safe and warm. I can't wait to see you all back at school in 2011!!!
God Bless,
Tanya
We have finished our unit on The Elves and The Shoemaker. The kids all loved it. Our next unit is Jingles, poems and other rhymes. We have already begun practicing rhyming words. Try asking your child to make rhyming words at home. We count nonsense words as well as conventional words. Try to stress the end sounds so they don't get confused. For example say tED not Ted. Rhyming is with ending sounds. You might hear Ten as a rhyming word, just remind them of the ED not EN sounds.
Stories and songs with Santa was a blast. I was so excited to see all the new faces and my old favorites too. The children seemed to have great fun. This Tuesday, the 21, we will have our PJ and Polar Express day. All children are invited to stay the whole day to join in on the fun! After that, they are all yours until January 5th.
I will blog once over vacation. I will remind you all of upcoming January events. The biggest news for the children is that Scientist of the week will begin the second week of January. Our first scientist is Samantha W with her dad. We can't wait to start this project.
Until next year, I wish you tons of happiness and love over this holiday season. Be safe and warm. I can't wait to see you all back at school in 2011!!!
God Bless,
Tanya
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Welcome to December
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I know my family enjoyed it!
December will bring many things to our little shining stars. We have begun our unit on The Shoemaker and the Elves. Our new focus color is green and we are working on circles and squares. We will begin doing some basic abab patterns because there seems to be so many patterns around at this time of the year. Ask them to show you different patterns. You can encourage colors, but also cans, blocks, shapes, sizes like big little big little etc.
Advent has begun. Each Monday, we will have a prayer service and "light" one candle in the school hall. Yesterday, I sent home a colored wreath for you to do with your child. The candles go purple on weeks 1&2, then pink and the last candle is purple. Try to connect school and home in the manner as well. Also, regarding church, don't forget to bring your "MASS PORTS" to church during Advent.
The children are starting to spend more time in their new "groups". We hope that the classroom is ready the week of December 13 sometime. We have already seen the huge benefits of these smaller groups for the children. Remember, I will continue to do the Rowland program with all the older 4s and 5s while Ms. Kim will work with the 3's and young 4s. This will be daily for about 20 minutes. The gym classes will be seperate, but Spanish, Art and Library will continue to be together.
We just celebrated Victoria F's birthday. Our next is Olivia on Dec. 9. If your child comes home with extra snacks or with their snacks not eaten, that is because someone has brought in a birthday snack.
As always, stay warm and be happy!
Tanya
December will bring many things to our little shining stars. We have begun our unit on The Shoemaker and the Elves. Our new focus color is green and we are working on circles and squares. We will begin doing some basic abab patterns because there seems to be so many patterns around at this time of the year. Ask them to show you different patterns. You can encourage colors, but also cans, blocks, shapes, sizes like big little big little etc.
Advent has begun. Each Monday, we will have a prayer service and "light" one candle in the school hall. Yesterday, I sent home a colored wreath for you to do with your child. The candles go purple on weeks 1&2, then pink and the last candle is purple. Try to connect school and home in the manner as well. Also, regarding church, don't forget to bring your "MASS PORTS" to church during Advent.
The children are starting to spend more time in their new "groups". We hope that the classroom is ready the week of December 13 sometime. We have already seen the huge benefits of these smaller groups for the children. Remember, I will continue to do the Rowland program with all the older 4s and 5s while Ms. Kim will work with the 3's and young 4s. This will be daily for about 20 minutes. The gym classes will be seperate, but Spanish, Art and Library will continue to be together.
We just celebrated Victoria F's birthday. Our next is Olivia on Dec. 9. If your child comes home with extra snacks or with their snacks not eaten, that is because someone has brought in a birthday snack.
As always, stay warm and be happy!
Tanya
Monday, November 22, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving!
Before I forget... Thanks to all that helped to support CMH and RMH! Wait until you see the photos. It was overwhelming.
We need to remember daily how blessed we all are. Times are tough and sometimes health gets shaky, but we have so much to be thankful for. Perhaps you can say a daily prayer of thanks at dinner. Our snack prayer is:
"We fold our hands and softly say, thank you for our food today." The children know and understand this prayer.
I do hope that you are reading to your child or even singing or telling stories. Children do so much better in school when they have these listening activities at home as well. If your child does not yet have a library card, try to get there over Thanksgiving to have them get their very own card. If a child can write their name, they can have a card. They can go and "shop around" their own book choices. It is very exciting to a small child. I am sure most have read 10 books by now. If you have, please return that USA book pledge by Dec. 17 so we can submit them as a class and Scholastic can donate books to less privileged children.
God Bless you all during this, our first family holiday of the year.
Mrs. Tanya
We need to remember daily how blessed we all are. Times are tough and sometimes health gets shaky, but we have so much to be thankful for. Perhaps you can say a daily prayer of thanks at dinner. Our snack prayer is:
"We fold our hands and softly say, thank you for our food today." The children know and understand this prayer.
I do hope that you are reading to your child or even singing or telling stories. Children do so much better in school when they have these listening activities at home as well. If your child does not yet have a library card, try to get there over Thanksgiving to have them get their very own card. If a child can write their name, they can have a card. They can go and "shop around" their own book choices. It is very exciting to a small child. I am sure most have read 10 books by now. If you have, please return that USA book pledge by Dec. 17 so we can submit them as a class and Scholastic can donate books to less privileged children.
God Bless you all during this, our first family holiday of the year.
Mrs. Tanya
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
As Thanksgiving approaches
Let us remember what we are thankful for. We are talking all about Thanksgiving. We are talking like pilgrams and learning about the Native Americans that lived in Plymouth. In all of that, we are also talking about family and how blessed we are for having families. We talk about how some people are without that very important thing. We thank God for our family and for our food, our homes, school, friends etc. Please remind them of those things not just this time of year, but all year round.
Don't forget next Tuesday is our Family luncheon. Please sign up for a dish if you have done so. We will start lunch at noon. There is no edp that day, so if you are unable to come for the lunch make arrangements to pick your child up by 1pm.
Finally, don't forget to order your tickets for the TANGLED event on Nov. 28th. You can see any showtime that day.
GOD BLESS!
Don't forget next Tuesday is our Family luncheon. Please sign up for a dish if you have done so. We will start lunch at noon. There is no edp that day, so if you are unable to come for the lunch make arrangements to pick your child up by 1pm.
Finally, don't forget to order your tickets for the TANGLED event on Nov. 28th. You can see any showtime that day.
GOD BLESS!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
November News
This week we have a shadow day for incoming prek and kindergarten students. If you know anyone, PLEASE send them our way. We would love to have some new friends this year or for them to sign up for next year! If they can't come this week on the 11th, next week on the 17th is yet another day to bring a friend.
We are so busy lately. I apologize for not sending a blog last week. We have been working on Ee, Ff, in and out. The students worked together as a whole group to create a classroom book on the SMARTboard! They came up with the title, the characters and the story line. This will be printed and each child will have a chance to take it home to share. PLEASE keep it one night then return it. I encourage you to fold some paper and staple it together and leave a few on a table with a pencil. The children LOVE to write stories and this is something they can do with little to no help from an adult. Don't ask them "what is this? or what does it say?" Instead, say to them "Can you read your story to me?" This will give their work great value.
We are working on families over this week and next. Please send a family photo by THURSDAY Nov. 11. This will be displayed, so if it precious, please make a copy. Don't forget Mrs. A's art scavenger hunt. It is so much more fun than just going to the store to buy something. Also, a big thanks to all who have or continue to donate during this giving season. We all know times are very hard. It is even harder for families with very ill children who are stuck "living" in hospitals for weeks and months. Our last day for collecting is Nov. 12.
Finally, your time slot for parent teacher report cards was sent home. Please return signed and if you are unable to make it, we will schedule another day after Thanksgiving if you would like.
God Bless!
Tanya :)
adding the yummy ingredients
Making slime swamps to eat
The Whole Gang
Our scavenger hunt
We are so busy lately. I apologize for not sending a blog last week. We have been working on Ee, Ff, in and out. The students worked together as a whole group to create a classroom book on the SMARTboard! They came up with the title, the characters and the story line. This will be printed and each child will have a chance to take it home to share. PLEASE keep it one night then return it. I encourage you to fold some paper and staple it together and leave a few on a table with a pencil. The children LOVE to write stories and this is something they can do with little to no help from an adult. Don't ask them "what is this? or what does it say?" Instead, say to them "Can you read your story to me?" This will give their work great value.
We are working on families over this week and next. Please send a family photo by THURSDAY Nov. 11. This will be displayed, so if it precious, please make a copy. Don't forget Mrs. A's art scavenger hunt. It is so much more fun than just going to the store to buy something. Also, a big thanks to all who have or continue to donate during this giving season. We all know times are very hard. It is even harder for families with very ill children who are stuck "living" in hospitals for weeks and months. Our last day for collecting is Nov. 12.
Finally, your time slot for parent teacher report cards was sent home. Please return signed and if you are unable to make it, we will schedule another day after Thanksgiving if you would like.
God Bless!
Tanya :)
adding the yummy ingredients
Making slime swamps to eat
The Whole Gang
Our scavenger hunt
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