Friday, 9 September 2016

Friday Update September 9

Our students are amazing!  They have had such a great week, and I am so proud of each and every one of them! They have been engaged in all of our learning activities, and have really been working to get to know each other.  I will say, they are VERY tired! They are definitely ready for a long weekend! So, a reminder that the students don’t have school on Monday because of Hari Raya, and on Tuesday because we have a faculty inservice day.  I will see the students back at school on Wednesday.

We were introduced to our new friend on Monday!  Welcome to Florence and her entire family!  We are so excited to have you as part of our Pre K/SAS family!  Florence had jumped into all of our activities with gusto!

This week some of our learning included…
*visiting A.J.’s dad’s high school art room! We were led through a very fun project—we felt like big kids in the big classroom!! Your child’s artwork is in their blue bag.
*we have been obsessed with letters and their sounds, and have been working to get our creative alphabet up on the wall. We went on a letter hunt!  One of our kiddos pointed out their name and SAS on their shirt, and we tried to find other letters and words around the school.
*we played Buggy Bingo (a counting game.)
*experimenting with clay and moon sand—very different textures to create things with.
*continuing work on Mango and OC’s castle/maze/race track
*exploding colors! We looked at the materials (milk, food coloring, dish soap, toothpicks, bowls) and made a prediction about what we thought was going to happen, then did our experiment!  We had a couple of cuties who wanted to do the experiment over and over again!
*we looked at numbers in a variety of ways and used different graphs, ten frames and different materials to work with numbers and objects.
*..and of course a lot more exploring!


REMINDERS / UPCOMING DATES
*Check in your child’s Friday Folder (the BLUE BAG) take everything out and return bag back to school on Monday.  We keep certain projects/activities here at school to put in your child’s portfolio (in case your child was talking about something you didn’t see.)  If the blue bag did not come home, they have either kept some things at school or did not make a lot of products to take home—they may have been exploring in other ways than painting, drawing, etc.
*Return Library books and RED LIBRARY BAG on Monday.

*Monday, September 12: NO SCHOOL- Hari Raya
*Tuesday, September 13: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS-Faculty Inservice
*Wednesday, September 14: ALTERNATE DRESS DAY
*Thursday, October 6 and Friday, October 7: Parent Teacher Conferences
*Please send in a family photo if you have not done so yet! Week 5 Sept 5 to 9

No comments:

Post a Comment