Friday Update March 3 to 7

March 7, 2014 

                                                

Dear Parents,

It was another fun week of learning in the yellow starfish preK class!!!  We continued with learning about Fairy Tales, and really worked with The Three Billy Goats Gruff!! Our  classroom was filled with laughter and awesome storytelling as the cuties retold their versions of The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  This week the teachers did their final performance of the Goats Gruff.  The fairytale Unit is all about language, vocabulary, details and sequencing, so we wanted to show the kiddos how it works.  We have been making puppets and props, acting out the stories, and using materials to retell.  Ask your child to retell one of our fairy tales to you—Remind him/her to add lots of details to make the story more interesting!  Good oral language, vocabulary, complete sentences, details and sequencing makes for great writers and readers later on! (And don’t forget to ask them what 3 things fairy tales have! J)

In other news…our Gingerbreak Man is in NEW YORK!!!!!! J

Some details from this week- We…

*learned the sound, letter formation and hand motion for the letter Gg.

*wrote Gg words, drew Gg pictures and cut out Gg pictures in our journals.

*added gold glitter to our feely letter Gg.  Please add it to your ring and have your child review all of the letters.

*read many versions of the Three Billy Goats Gruff

*reviewed that fairy tales need Once Upon a Time, a good guy/”bad” guy, and a happy ending

*were introduced to other fairy tales such as The Ugly Duckling, The Three Little Kittens and The Little Red Hen, among others J

*practiced sequencing pictures (we put them in order)

*organized some very fun items into small, medium and large

*made a TROLL and described parts of its body

*participated in Garden math

*made troll and billy goat puppets and a river, hill and bridge for them so we could act out the fairy tale

*Made a pattern of small, medium, and large goats

*tallied how many Guys and Girls there are in our class compared to the other PreK classes

*painted a Three Billy Goats Gruff watercolor

*we sorted things in our classroom to help clean up.  We remembered that we are BIG boys and girls and clean up the things we play with (this is what they are supposed to tell you at home, and encourage them to pick up their own toys J)

NEXT WEEK

Next week we will be learning the letter Jj and learning about Jack and The Beanstalk.

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.)

Just a heads up for upcoming dates as we head into the last part of the year…

* Thursday, March 20^th and Friday, March 21^st:  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

*Wednesday, April 9^th:  LATE START—School starts at 10:00am

*Friday, April 18^th: Good Friday—NO SCHOOL

*Thursday, May 1^st:  Labor Day—NO SCHOOL

*Tuesday, May 13^th: Vesak Day—NO SCHOOL

Thank you!!!  Have a wonderful weekend!!!!  Lynsey and Aidah