April 16-20

We had a lot of fun celebrating our Olympic champions last week! The students seemed to enjoy making their flags and getting their gold medals.

Here is what we are up to this week:
Theme: Plants/Trees
Science: Plants and trees
Math: Money, Ovals, Numbers 1-20
Literacy: Letter 0
Shape of the month: Oval
Color of the month: Purple
Spanish: Insects
Show and Tell: My favorite plant

Our Centers for this week:

Technology: Letter books on computer/StarFall
Book On tape: Over on the Farm
Dramatic Play: Flower Shop
Math: Coins, numbers through 20
Science: Seeds and growing plants
Literacy: Letter A
Fine Motor: Writing Os, Journal writing, cutting

As our weather changes hourly right now in Colorado, please send your child to school prepared. Light jacket, hat, sunscreen, or anything else that will help them to feel more comfortable outside. Also, please remember to have good shoes on your child. Shoes that come off easily, or have open toes or heels, tend to cause more falls on our playground.

April 9-13

We had a lot of fun last week learning about Greece, trying some new Greek food, and attending our first assembly, a Dr. Suess play. Some of our preschool friends even got to help out with the play!

Here is what we are up to this week:
Theme: Olympics
Science: All 5 senses
Math: Money, Numbers 1-20
Literacy: Letter A
Shape of the month: Oval
Color of the month: Purple
Spanish: Insects
Show and Tell: Favorite Sport

Our Centers for this week:

Technology: Letter books on computer/StarFall and Millie's Math house
Dramatic Play: Olympic Games, Planting and Dirt
Math: Coins, numbers through 20
Science: Our 5 senses, changes of spring
Art: Marble Art
Literacy: Letter A
Fine Motor: writing names, letters, numbers, cutting

So that's why our preschoolers are so smart!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

April 2-6

April is here!!! And the weather has been wonderful! The students are really enjoying all of our outdoor time. Please remember to apply sunscreen in the morning before your child comes to school. Also, since our students run so much outside, we would like to request that they wear close-toed, closed-heel shoes. This prevents a lot of our playground injuries! If you have a specific question about shoes, please just ask a teacher!

Here is what we are up to this week:
Theme: Greece
Science: All 5 senses
Math: Number 20
Literacy: Review G,C, and Q
Shape of the month: Oval
Color of the month: Purple
Spanish: Insects
Show and Tell: Something that starts with G, C, or Q

Our Centers for this week:

Technology: Letter books on computer/StarFall and Millie's Math house
Dramatic Play: Dress up for Spring, Farming
Math: Counting to 20, numbers to 20, simple adding, patterning, shape review
Science: Our 5 senses, changes of spring
Art: Painting spring
Literacy: Review Activities
Fine Motor: writing names, letters, numbers, cutting

Testing is almost complete! Just a couple more days and I will have it finished. Please let me know if you would like to look at or talk about your child's tests.

Don't forget about our Buy One, Get one Free book fair going on this week! This is a great way to build your library for summer!

March 26-30

Happy Spring!!! We are all so excited to see the weather changing, the sun shining more, and the start of the budding of the trees and flowers. With all of this also comes our strange weather. Please make sure your child is prepared for our crazy Colorado weather. Please apply sunscreen on your child before school. We are outside quite a bit, and it has been sunny. Also make sure they are dressed for the weather.

Here is what we are up to this week:
Theme: Spring/Insects
Science: Sense of Smell
Math: Number 19
Literacy: The letter: Gg
Shape of the month: Hexagon
Color of the month: Green
Spanish: Insects
Show and Tell: Something SPRING

Our Centers for this week:

Technology: Letter G book on computer/StarFall and Millie's Math house
Dramatic Play: Gardening and Farming
Math: Counting to 19, numbers to 19, simple adding, patterning
Science: Sense of Smell, insects, celery experiment
Art: making bugs
Literacy: Gg activities
Fine Motor: Writing name, letter G, numbers. Playdoh bugs

I am finally almost finished with the testing and plan to finish up this week. Please let me know if you are interested in setting up a time to go over the information or if you would just like a copy of what we did.

Week of March 19-23

Welcome back!  We hope you had a really enjoyable Spring Break with your preschooler.  We missed them!

This week we are celebrating St. Patrick's Day!  It's a little late, but it's too fun of a holiday not to celebrate!  We will be having a special GREEN DAY on Thursday.  Be sure to remind your child to wear their favorite green shirt or outfit.

Here is what else we have planned for this coming week:

Theme: St. Patrick's Day
Science: Sense of Smell
Math: Number 18
Literacy: The letter: Cc
Shape of the month: Hexagon
Color of the month: Green
Spanish: Insects
Show and Tell: My Favorite Green Thing!

Our Centers for this week:

Technology: Letter C book on computer/StarFall
Dramatic Play: Pretending to be bugs
Math: Counting to 18, numbers to 18
Science: Bugs
Literacy: Cc activities
Fine Motor: Writing name, letter C, numbers. Cutting 


It's going to be a very fun, very LUCKY week!  

SPRING BREAK

There is no school March 12-16 for Spring Break! Hope everyone has a great break and enjoys this beautiful weather!