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.