Thursday, 14 April 2016

Friday Update April 15

This week it was all about animals! We also visited the Elementary School! We have been very busy!

Our explorations and activities included…
*Designing and beginning to put together a play space for Mango and Jelly (more in the next blog post.) We researched, read, looked at animal blocks, looked at pictures, tested it out with a pretend guinea pig and then tried it out with Mango and Jelly!
*Visited the Elementary School.  We (our class and Ms. Hannah’s Pre K class) went to the rooftop playground and then checked some books out from the ES library for our classroom.  It was a long walk, but so worth it!  Our Pre K students felt like big K students! 
*Making tie dye paper towels with Jasper’s mom-thanks for coming Fiona!
*doing a couple of laps with second grade for their annual walk a thon
*using our 100’s chart to count and practice patterning and using dominoes to practice one to one correspondence, matching and of course having fun playing a game that I have always loved! J
*Playing buggy bingo to practice our counting, names of numbers and cooperation
*drawing airplanes and building them—we have a group that is VERY interested
*practicing sounding out simple words that keep showing up in our Mo Willems books!
*and much, much more….


SAVE THE DATE:
PRE-K CELEBRATION AND PORTFOLIO SHARING
The children have been working hard all year, and would like to celebrate!
Please join us to help celebrate our accomplishments, share our portfolios, and watch a slide show of our Pre K experiences.
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:15 am
E104 (our classroom)
*Please let me know if you CANNOT make it


INTEGRATING INTO THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Over the next couple of months of Pre-K we try to give the children plenty of opportunities to visit different areas of the Primary School and interact with many of the PS faculty. In May we will also have a magic show in the kindergarten group room, visit the kindergarten classes, go to the library to have a story with Mrs. Cuthbert and eat snack in the Primary School cafeteria. By June your children will be Kindergarten experts!  Please see list of dates below….more details will be provided as the dates get closer.

Upcoming Dates and Things to Remember:
(I’m trying to get the rest of the year sorted, so you can put dates on your calendars J)

*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*Check the blog for pictures from this week!
*SUMMER BIRTHDAYS: if your child's birthday is in the summer and you'd like to celebrate it at school before the year is over, please send a note and we will celebrate!  J  We don’t want to miss anyone! Let me know what day works for you.
*IF you are leaving early, withdrawing from SAS or will be missing certain days over the next few weeks, send me a note. This will help me manage those last-minute details regarding report cards, work sent home, portfolios etc.


*Tuesday, April 19th: Telluride Film Festival for Ecc- This was a generous donation from an SAS family, and is a school wide event on Monday and Tuesday. The ECC playlist is 29 minutes long and are appropriate for our age group with some funny and inspiring short films.  We will be attending in the morning.
*Tuesday, April 26th: Teacher Appreciation Day J YAY! J
*Friday, May 2nd:  Labor Day—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, May 9th:  Pre K Visits KINDERGARTEN! (Students only) We will walk to the primary and visit kindergarten rooms, play on the k playground, listen to a story read by Mrs. Cuthbert (PS Librarian) and have a snack in the primary school cafeteria.
*Friday, May 20th: CELEBRATION/PORTFOLIO SHARE starting at 8:15am(Parents are highly encouraged to attend this day J)
Magic Show-Date TBD (Students only) We will walk to the primary school, have an opportunity to play on the kindergarten playground, watch a magic show and enjoy a popsicle.
*Monday, May 23rd: Vesak Day—NO SCHOOL
*Friday, June 3rd:  Last Day of School!—11:30am dismissal

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