We are going to Heritage Assisted Living Tuesday (tomorrow) the 17th. We are leaving the center at 10:15am! Please have your child at the center by then. Thank You!
We were very busy in Pre-K today! We have finished our yellow submarine!
We finished decorating the front entrance...and we added some really cool painted seaweed!
We hope everyone had a fabulous weekend and got to enjoy a taste of Spring weather! Please remember to bring in a rock this week for our "rock buddies". Also, we will be collecting plastic water bottles all week! Please keep in mind that we will be adding things to our underwater aquarium all month so feel free to be creative with your kids and bring something to add! Thank You to all of the families for your continued support in helping us have fun with your children! Don't forget Family Night on Thursday, March 26th! We will be having a puppet show put on by Pitter Patter Puppets. It will be a great time! Have a nice week!
Dear Pre-K Families,
Can you believe it’s March already? Time flies when you’re having fun! This month the children have decided on a theme of underwater animals to explore and study through out the month. If anyone has access to underwater creatures, we would love for you to bring them in to share. This unit will coincide with the guideline for preschool learning experiences: Observe and describe how natural habitats provide for the basic needs of plants and animals with respect to shelter, food, water, air and light.
We would like to welcome Shannon and Nya to Pre-K from the preschool room. Welcome! We would like to wish Lindsay a very Happy 5th Birthday, and a Happy Birthday to Ms. Kayla!
Don’t forget to check out our blog! There are lots of great pictures as well as reminders, important updates and recipes! www.vnaprek2.blogspot.com
We will be creating an underwater aquarium under our loft. Please bring in something to contribute to our aquarium. This would be a great opportunity for you and your child to get creative! We are also asking the children to bring in one rock (about the size of a fist) to create a rock animal.
We will be going to the Heritage on March 17th at 10:15am to share songs and special surprises with our friends.
A few reminders:
*Please update children’s extra clothing bins! Many children are missing items from their bins!
*Please sign your child IN and OUT everyday.
*Check mailboxes on a daily basis.
*We ask that you do not let your children bring in toys from home. They have been distracting to the children.
As always if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to ask. If anyone would like to come in and share a special book, interest or story, we would love to have you!
Thank You,
Alicia & Kayla
English Language Arts
Communicate personal experiences or interests. Share information about underwater creatures, remember what they liked best. Listen to and use formal and informal language. Use new vocabulary learned through exploring underwater books and literature. Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print and letter forms. Relate themes and information in books to personal experiences. Explore themes that grow out of children’s interests (Underwater Creatures). Use emergent writing skills to make letters in many settings and purposes. Engage in sensory experiences such as making letters in sand, with finger paint or tracing over sandpaper letter.
Mathematics
Connect many kinds/quantities of concrete objects and actions to numbers. Participate in finger plays “Five Little Sea Urchins”. Use positional language and ordinal numbers (first, second, third) Line up to go outside/inside or wash hands. Sort, categorize or classify objects by more than one attribute. (sorting sea animal manipulative by size, color) Use estimation in meaningful ways and follow up by verifying accuracy of estimations. (Seashell estimation) Organize and draw conclusions from facts they have collected (graphs, charts with facts they have collected about underwater creatures).
Science/Technology Engineering
Ask and seek answers to questions about objects and events with the assistance of interested adults. (investigate seaweed, seashells ect.) Identify and use simple tools appropriately to extend observations. Use hand lenses of varying power to examine shells, rocks, creatures. Compare and contrast natural materials such as water, rocks, soil, and living organisms using descriptive language. Observe and identify the characteristics and needs of human things: humans, animals and plants. Use their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste to explore their environment using sensory vocabulary.
History and Social Science
Discuss and identify the order of daily routine-describe what comes first, next and last. Engage in activities that build understanding of words for location and direction. (nature walks, Heritage trip, library) Discuss classroom responsibilities in daily activities. Taking responsibility for cleaning up after themselves and their activities. Discuss roles and responsibilities of people in our community (family night-puppeteer) Observe some U.S. national holidays and discuss why and how we celebrate them.
Health Education
Build awareness of directionality and position in space-maneuver through obstacle courses created by children. Build upper body strength and stability to gain controlled movement of shoulders-pouring water/sand in and out of pitchers and buckets. Discuss nutritious meals and snacks and the difference between healthy and junk food. Practice independence and self help skills-serve themselves snack and clean up after each other. Talk about some basic ways they can keep their environment clean and take care of it-talk about ways to keep the ocean clean.
Arts
Participate in simple sequences of movements and dance to various kinds of music-alphabet march. Act out ways that movement and dance can show feeling or convey meaning. Sing expressively-songs to share with our friends at the Heritage. Listen to storytellers and watch puppet shows-make puppets for the puppet theater-underwater finger puppets. Observe the safe and appropriate use and care of art materials-cleaning up properly, care for all art media respectfully. Experiment with the use of texture in artwork-art with sand, seaweed, starfish prints ect.
