January

I hope you had a wonderful Holiday! 

Thank you so much for all the gifts.  We had a fun Polar Express Pajama Party! 

Registration for the 2014-2015 preschool year will start in a couple of weeks.  Priority registration will open to current students and siblings on Monday, January 13.  Information will be available soon. 

This month some of our themes will be:  Health, Mittens, Winter/Snow, and Bears.  We will continue with simple addition and counting by ten.

We will hopefully have a field trip to Whole Foods during the last week of the month.

Please note that we will not have preschool on Monday, January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day). 

Hopefully we will have some winter weather this month.  Cold weather is perfect for our water to ice experiments, ice to water experiments, mitten/glove graphing, snowman making (we learn size seriation-large to small).  We will also talk about hibernation and which animals hibernate. 

--Anyone with extra shoe boxes/Kleenex boxes????  We will use them in February to make Valentine boxes--send them in anytime!

Thank you again!!

Merry Christmas!

In the month of December we will learn the letters M, N, and O.  

We will learn about Christmas around the World, and complete a fun Gingerbread Man unit.

In math the children will be learning to count by 10’s.  We will continue to work on patterns, and simple addition.

In science we will be talking about snowflakes and how they are made and what they look like magnified.  We will talk a little about the water cycle.

In reading we will continue to talk about sequencing, conflict, and conflict resolution (the problem and how it is solved).  A great at home activity would be to ask your child (after you have read a book together) to tell you what happened in the beginning of the book, what happened in the middle, and at the end.

On Thursday and Friday, Dec. 19 and 20 each class will have a Polar Express party.  They can wear pajamas to school and at the party we will have a gift exchange.  If you have a boy, please bring a $5 gift for a boy.  If you have a girl, please bring a $5 gift for a girl.  We will also be decorating Gingerbread boy and girl cookies, reading some Christmas stories and drinking some hot chocolate.

Now is a great time to start saving rectangular boxes (kleenex boxes, or shoe boxes) for Valentine Card Boxes that we will make in February.

Thank you for all you do!!