April Newsletter

It's been a short month due to Spring break, but we've been busy! When we came back from spring break we talked about Easter and why we celebrate it. Our Easter egg was a very good time and the weather was terrific. The following week we continued to talk about spring and the kind of weather that we have in spring. Some of the books that we read were "Rain, "Clouds", "Wind", and "Raindrop Plop." Our circle time discussions focused on why we need rain, the purpose of clouds and the purpose of wind. Our units for the next 2 weeks will be bugs and the Kentucky Derby.

The kids have made great progress this school year! All of them are writing their names, or at least part of their names. They have learned some of the letters of the alphabet and a few of them can even tell you what letter certain words start with. I'm proud of each and every one of them and their accomplishments.

Mrs. Howard

March Newsletter

This month in the 3 year old class our units have included books, books, books and numbers. The next two units for the month will be the color green along with St. Patricks day, and Spring. Spring break will be the week of March, 30th through April 3rd. The letters that we focused on this week for the numbers unit were the letters m and n. We read "The Napping House" and "One Hungry Monster". Both of these books were counting books. We also made a numbers book of our own! We continue to have fun and learn along the way.

As a reminder to everyone, please make sure your child has an extra change of clothes at school (especially the kids who stay all day). If you are not sure whether they do, then please check with me. Thanks as always for sharing your child with us! We love having them at our preschool.

Mrs. Howard

February Newsletter

February has been a very busy month and we still have more to do! We had our Valentines Day party today and had so much fun. I'm sorry about the power outage and that some of you could not make it back. We have some goodies for those who were not able to be here. For our short week, we were able to talk about Valentines day and about friendship and what it means to be a good friend to someone. Our upcoming units will be on dental health, five senses, and community helpers.

Thanks to everyone who donated some books to our classroom from the book fair. We really needed some new books! Thanks also to everyone who helped out with the party and to those of you who brought in glue sticks. I really appreciate all of you for being so helpful to our class. It makes teaching so much easier when you have parents who care so much! Thanks again.

Mrs. Howard

January Newsletter

Our theme for the whole month of January will be on Winter and Winter animals. There are so many things that can be done with this unit that I decided to devote the whole month to it. We've had alot of fun painting our first initial of our names using spools. We've also painted using shaving cream mixed with elmer's glue to make a snowy scene. Next week we will complete the snowy scene by adding arctic animals. We have been working on our fine motor skills by using clothespins to hang our matching letter mittens. This is a nice exercise for some of the kids who are still learning how to hold a pencil or crayon (and they have fun doing it). We made a mitten collage by tearing construction paper and gluing them inside the mitten (another great fine motor skill).

The next two weeks will be spent on arctic animals where we will make a penguin book. We are going to do an experiment and find out how a polar bear stays warm in the winter time.

Next week I will be sending home report cards. We will have conferences in February along with the rest of the school. If you have not registered your child for preschool in the fall, please do so as soon as possible.

December Newsletter

Can you believe that December is already here? Our first week will be spent on fairy tales and the following 2 weeks will be spent on Christmas. We will be making some things for Christmas gifts that are of top secret. Hopefully everybody can keep a secret until Christmas! As most of you know, the last day of school before break will be December 19th. We will be returning on January 5th, 2009.

I have started using the color sticks as a discipline method since the rest of the school is using the same method. So far it is working really well. The kids do not like having their sticks moved. Green is a good day, yellow means that they had a five minute time out and their happy note taken away, and finally, red means that they had been in time out more than once and they received no happy note or no sucker. If you want to know what kind of day your child had, all you have to do is ask he/she what color he/she was on for the day.

I hope that everybody has a safe and enjoyable holiday!

P.S. We will be having a Christmas party, but I am unsure of the time. I'll let you know once I am told. Thanks!


Mrs. Howard

November Newsletter

The month of November we will be going over the Letter T and the Letter I. I have created a copy cat book containing the two letters and the children will have an opportunity to practice writing the letters. Each new letter that we go over will be added to the copy cat book for the children to practice writing. We'll also be talking about Native Americans and Thanksgiving. We're still working hard on scissor usage as well as learning how to write our names. Those who do not know how to write their names yet are very eager to learn. It's been very exciting watching their determination and persistence!



Our unit this week is on Native Americans. I'll be discussing where they lived and what they ate. Our class will be making a head band as well as a drum (assuming we collect enough oatmeal containers or coffee cans). If we don't collect enough containers then we will make Indian vests instead.



The last week of November we will be talking about Thanksgiving. You may want to take a peek at our bulletin board to see the turkeys that we've already made. We continue to have fun in the preschool 3's and we're learning along the way. Thanks as always for sharing your children with me, they truly are a great bunch of kids!





Mrs. Howard