LEMONADE!!!!!!! What an amazing experience for our cuties!!!
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Friday Update February 24 to 28
February 28, 2014
Dear Parents,
What a week!!!!!!! LEMONADE! LEMONADE! LEMONADE!!!! Thank you so much for your contributions of
lemons and money towards Caring for Cambodia.
Our class and Ms. Peggy’s class raised 200 dollars to put towards their
Food For Thought program which gives breakfast and lunch to children who don’t
have it.
Here are some of our
activities this week. We…
*reviewed the letters and
sounds that we have learned so far this year.
*continued with reading
many versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and talked about sizes: small,
medium, large.
*cut out pictures of bowls
of porridge, chairs and beds and put them into the right size categories.
*practiced writing our
numbers and made a 5 Little Bears book
*acted out The Three Little
Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears in our dramatic play centers in the
ECC.
*cut out and put together a
teddy bear puzzle.
*used teddy bear counters
to count and pattern
*SQUEEZED A LOT OF
LEMONS!!!!!!!!
*mixed sugar and water and
made our lemonade!
*came up with ideas, a plan
and the materials that we would need for a lemonade sale. The cuties were very good at coming up with
things like ice to keep the lemonade cool and spoons to mix it!
*made signs to advertise
our lemonade sale
*practiced in our dramatic
play area how to sell lemonade. There was a lot of “Come buy some lemonade! 50
cents a glass! It is for Caring for Cambodia” and “Would you like some
lemonade? 50 cents please!” heard in our classroom! And they put their practice to good use at
the sale!
*made headbands to help us
advertise our lemonade.
*played and built with
magna tiles (always a favorite), playdoh,
sensory beads and beads to string.
*were introduced to the
fairy tale The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
*I forgot to mention that
last week we celebrated Amber’s 5th birthday! Happy Birthday Amber!
BEAR’S
NIGHT OUT
The book is coming home
with each child for one night over the next couple of weeks—be sure to read it
and then send it back to school with your cutie the next morning.
NEXT
WEEK
Next week we will be learning
the letter Gg and continuing with The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday. (Also if you
haven’t returned the menu for this coming week, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send it
back to us! J The cafeteria needs to know how many meals to
prepare.)
*Check the blog for
pictures from this week! (And for info from Ma Laoshi and Mr. Geoff—their
updates are on their blogs—the links for them are on the side of my blog.)
*
*Wednesday,
March 5th: LATE START—School starts at 10:00am
*
Thursday, March 20th and Friday, March 21st: Parent Teacher Conferences---you will be getting a letter from the office telling you when
and where you can sign up J
*March
22 to March 30: SPRING BREAK—NO SCHOOL
Friday, 21 February 2014
BEARS NIGHT OUT!!!!!!!
BEARS
NIGHT OUT!!!!!
Friday Update February 17 to 21
February 21, 2014
Dear Parents,
Our week revolved around
BEARS and the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears! Thank you for having your cuties ready with
bears on Thursday and pajamas today!
They were absolutely adorable!!!!! Here are some of the activities this
week. We…
*learned the sound, letter
formation and hand motion for the letter Bb.
*wrote Bb words, drew Bb
pictures and cut out Bb pictures in our journals.
*added beads to our feely
letter Bb. Please add it to your ring and have your child review all of
the letters.
*read and compared lots of
different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Can your
child retell the story?
*were treated to a play
(acted out by the pre-k teachers) of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
*made Three Bear’s porridge
and ate it up! We did a lot of measuring!
*practiced pouring and
ladling porridge into small medium and large bowls at the sensory table.
*cut out and decorated,
“dancing bears” and used them as we sang Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Turn Around.
*sang Three Brown Bears,
The Bear Went Over the Mountain, Going on a Bear Hunt and Teddy Bear’s Picnic.
*measured and compared the
heights of our bears (and ourselves!)
*went on a “bear hunt.”
*Counted and then graphed
gummy bears (then ate them of course!)
*enjoyed a teddy bear’s
picnic in the ABC Hall.
PAJAMA
DAY
We had so much fun dressed
in pajamas! We spent the day reading lots of books about bears, doing fun
bear activities and singing bear songs and we even had a “teddy bear picnic”
for lunch!. Please have your child tell you about it.
BEAR’S
NIGHT OUT
On Thursday evening, while
the school was quiet, our sleeping teddy bears came to life and got into all
kinds of mischief in the ECC! They were caught on camera by the school
security, who then shared the pictures with us J. Look in your child’s zippy pouch to see what his/her
bear was up to. Please have your child “read” the page to you.
Pre- Kindergarten
Lemonade Sale!
Proceeds
will go to Caring For Cambodia
Thursday January 27th
8:15
to 9:30
(by
the High School Office)
50
cents a glass
(correct
change appreciated)
Next week the children will
squeeze lemons to make fresh lemonade. We thought it
would be a fun to open a lemonade stand and sell it to the Middle and High
School students. Our profits will go to Caring For Cambodia. If
you would like to donate to the lemonade cause, please send a bag of lemons
with your child on Monday or Tuesday. If you are around campus on
Thursday you can stop by our lemonade sale:).
NEXT
WEEK
Next week we will be doing
a letter review, continuing with Goldilocks and the Three Bears and starting
Billy Goats Gruff.
REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*Check the blog for
pictures from this week!
*Ma Laoshi’s Chinese Blog
is now attached to the side of my blog so check there for weekly updates on
your child’s Chinese class (instead of me sending you her e-mails.)
*Wednesday,
February 26th: Alternate Dress Day!
*
Thursday, February 27th: Lemonade Sale!
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Pictures from this Week February 10 to 14
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf (acted out by the teachers :-))
Friday Update February 10 to 14
February 14, 2014
Dear Parents,
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! I hope you have had a wonderful day of love
and friendship—we have had a whole week of it!
We do have amazing cuties! We also celebrated Arjun’s 5th
birthday! Happy Birthday Arjun! It was
another great week!!!! J
Here are some things that
happened this week. We…
*learned the name, sound,
and formation for the letter Ll.
*brainstormed/ listed/cut
out words that begin with Ll and wrote them in our alphabet journals.
*added LACE to our feely
letter Ll. Please remember to add this to your feely letter ring
and review all of the letters.
*learned the song Mary Had
A Little Lamb.
*made LOOK BOOKS! These are coming home in the blue Friday
Folder bags—please have your child read them to you! They used inventive spelling to sound out the
words for their pictures, and I am really proud of the kiddos! With learning to sound out and spell, the
important thing is not for the cuties to spell everything correctly, but to
(with my help) think what sounds they hear in the words they were spelling and
write those down. Definitely praise your
child for their work. J
*made Valentine’s mailboxes
*played our favorite “draw
a pig” game
*looked at the number of
LETTERS in our names and practiced writing our numbers, using a 10 frame and
tallying.
*compared the number of
letters in our names to our friends
*continued reading a number
of related stories to The Three Little Pigs (including The Fourth Little Pig,
Ziggy and the Three Pigs, and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.)
*watched the teachers ACT
OUT The Three Little Pigs in the ABC hall (I was the Big Bad Wolf—the cuties
could not keep from laughing and screaming at me the entire time! I personally think we all deserved Oscars,
but they might not agree J J)
NEXT
WEEK
Next week we will be
learning the letter Bb, continue with our Fairy Tale unit, and participate in
BEAR activities.
PAJAMA DAY!!!!
Next Friday, February 21st
the pre-K children will have Pajama Day! That’s right, they get to come to school dressed in their
pajamas!!! J We will spend the day reading lots of books, making a tasty
snack and even watching a movie with the entire pre-k as we enjoy our lunch in
the ABC Hall.
Please have your child bring a teddy bear to school on Thursday. If you don’t have a teddy
another stuffed toy will do. The bear will stay overnight in school as we
will use them again on Friday. Please do not send a teddy that your child
cannot sleep without on Thursday night.
We will be having a “Teddy
Bear Picnic” for lunch on Friday (Feb 21st) so it would be fabulous
if you could send in a HOME LUNCH that day instead of ordering the school
lunch. (or, if you are okay with me
serving the sandwich for those who want the school lunch…. We are going to be
eating on the floor!!!!!) Please let me
know if you are NOT okay with me changing your child’s lunch to a sandwich for
next Friday if they are still going to order school lunch.
REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*Check the blog for
pictures from this week!
*Ma Laoshi’s Chinese Blog
is now attached to the side of my blog so check there for weekly updates on
your child’s Chinese class (instead of me sending you her e-mails.)
*Thursday,
February 20th: BRING IN A BEAR DAY!!!
*
Friday, February 21st: PAJAMA DAY!!!! Have your child wear their pajamas!!!! We will also have a teddy bear picnic on this
day. J
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