NO SCHOOL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22nd

Due to the SNOW, there will be NO SCHOOL TODAY, Thursday, December 22nd. We will see you tomorrow! Our class party is still on for tomorrow. Enjoy this snow!!!

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December 19-23

2011 is winding down fast, and we are in our last week of school for this year!!! This week will be a fun-filled, craft-filled week. We can't wait!

First things first, please don't forget about our Winter Program on Wednesday, December 21st at 6pm in the school cafeteria. This program includes our 2 preschool classes, and the students have been practicing for weeks! It is sure to be fun! Please have your child in their classroom about 10 minutes before 6 dressed nicely. Since we will be in the cafeteria on the stage, feel free to invite family and friends.

Our Winter Parties will be on Friday, December 23rd at 10:15. There will be a sign up sheet on our sign-in book for help! Please look it over and let us know what you can do to help. All students are welcome to attend!

This week for curriculum we will be talking about Winter, Sweden, and Christmas. We will also continue talking about our sense of touch, review the letters of the alphabet, and the numbers 1-10.

Thank you so much for sharing your children with us! They truly make us smile every day!!!

Week of December 12-16

Here's hoping we get out to our playground this week! The snow and cold have left it fairly snow packed and icy. We do like to take the preschoolers on walks outside, and to play in the cafeteria though!

Here is what we are studying this week:

Theme: Winter

Social Studies: Israel, Hanukkah

Science: the sense of touch

Math: Numbers 1-10

Literacy: The letter Kk, rhyming words

Writing: Words that start with K, names and tracing

Shape: Star

Color: Yellow

Spanish: Days of the Week

Show and Tell: Free Choice

For Spanish, we also practice counting to 10 daily, and sing our weather song in Spanish.

Please don't forget about our Winter Program on Wednesday, December 21st, at 6pm, on the stage in the cafeteria. Please have your child at school about 10 minutes early, dressed nicely. We will be singing 5 holiday songs, and will have cookies and juice afterward. This program is JUST the 2 preschool classes. Please feel free to bring grandparents, aunts and uncles, and anyone else who would like to watch. While we make no guarantees that every child will sing, we do promise it will be fun!

Week of December 5-9

Brrrr!  It's going to be a very cold week!  Please make sure your children are bundled up in coats, hats and gloves.  We will be going outside on any day that the weather permits, but I'm guessing we'll have quite a few indoor recesses this week!

Here's what we are studying this week:

 

Social Studies: Africa, Kwaanza

Science: Sense of Touch
Math: The number 10, Addition
Literacy: The letter H
Writing: Writing name and tracing, sending letters
Shape of the Week: Star

Color of the Week: Yellow

Spanish: Los dias de la semana-Days of the Week

 

Show and Tell: Something about Africa

As the holidays draw near, we will be learning about various traditions and celebrations.  If your family has a special holiday or cultural tradition your child would like to share with our class, please let Mrs. S or Mrs. Nye know.  We want to celebrate our diversity as well as our similarities!  It's a wonderful time of year!

Hablamos Espanol!

Hola!  We've had some parents request that our Spanish vocabulary be posted on our blogsite, so here are our words for the month of November.  Also, we are studying Puerto Rico this month.  Our focus will be on the culture as well as the native coqui.  A coqui is a tiny frog that has a distinct song (it sounds like "co-key").  The people of Puerto Rico love their coquies and have written songs and legends about them.  Ask your child what they have learned about Puerto Rico and the coqui!

Vocabulario (vocabulary):

• los colores (lohss co-lore-ace) the colors
• rojo  (row-hoe) red
• anaranjado (on-uh-ron-ha-dough) orange
• amarillo (om-uh-ree-yo) yellow
• verde (vair-day) green
• azul (ah-zool) blue
• morado (more-ah-dough) purple
• negro (nay-grow) black
• blanco (blahn-co) white
• marrón (mah-rone) brown
• rosado  (row-saw-doe)  pink
• gris  (grease)  grey
• grande (grahn-day) big
• pequeño (peck-kay-nyo) small
• duro (dur-oh)  hard
• suave (swah-vay) soft
• delgado (del-gah-dough) skinny
• gordo (gore-dough) fat

To help your child practice Spanish, ask them to describe everyday items.  For example, “What does your pillow look like?  What color is the pillowcase?  Is it soft and fat, or hard and skinny?”  You can play “I Spy” in the car, or even practice singing our “Canción de los Colores.”
 

“Canción de los Colores"

(to the tune of “Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush”)

I see the color red right here, red right here, red right here,

I see the color red right here, in Spanish red is rojo.

(Substitute various colors in English and Spanish.)

Week of November 28-December 2

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a wonderful break!

Here is what we are doing this week:

Social Studies: Starting to study Our Community and Community Helpers

Science: Sense of Touch

Math: Review #1-9, patterning and addition

Literacy: Review all letters learned so far

Writing: Writing name and tracing, sending letters

Show and Tell: Free Choice!

There will be a few changes occuring this week with the change in director. As most of you know, I will be taking over for Caylee as the preschool director. I will be teaching in the morning, just as always, until about 11. After that, we will have another teacher in the classroom to help with recess, lunch, nap, and the afternoons. I am so excited to have this opportunity and to still be able to teach your children.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at any time at sschlagenhauf@tpaak.org.

Please be sure to see our notes to the right for important updates!!