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 27^th

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 27^th:  Lemonade Sale!

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

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 5^th 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 21^st 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 21^st) 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 21^st:  PAJAMA DAY!!!!  Have your child wear their pajamas!!!!  We will also have a teddy bear picnic on this day. J

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

Pictures from Week 22 February 3 to 7

Friday Update February 3 to 7

HAPPY 100 DAY!!!!!!

February 7, 2014 

                                                

Dear Parents,

100 DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!  Who else can’t believe we have been in school for 100 days already!!!!!  Many of our activities this week centered around 100 day.  We also started our Fairy Tales unit.  It was another great week!!!! J

Here are some things that happened this week. We…

*learned the name, sound, and formation for the letter Ff.

*brainstormed/ listed/cut out words that begin with Ff and wrote them in our alphabet journals.

*added feathers to our feely letter Ff.  Please remember to add this to your feely letter ring and review all of the letters.

*learned the song Five Little Speckled Frogs and made a book based on the song to practice taking one away.

*played with pretend frogs in the sensory table along with our moon sand.

*caught numbered frogs in the water table and ordered them 1 – 20

*painted with feathers. 

*used magnetic fishing poles to catch the letters that the words on our mat started with.

*enjoyed “Fun Friday” on the playground.

*had our February guidance lesson with Mr. Pearson.  Last time we talked about responsibility (big word!) This week we talked about respect.

*Read many different versions of The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf.  We will continue with this fairy tale next week. Ask your cutie what a book should have to be a fairy tale J  (Once upon a time, a good guy/bad guy and happily ever after (or a happy ending of some sort.))

*Painted what we thought we would look like when we are 100 years old.

*Went on a number hunt.

*Measured our feet with cubes after reading “How Big is  a Foot?” about a king making a bed for a queen.

*Practiced writing our numbers to 10

*Counted out 10 of each treat for our 100 day snack using our 100 board.

*Had a visit from ZERO THE HERO and did 100 exercises!

*counted 100 m&m’s for our 100 day cake.

NEXT WEEK

Next week we will be learning the letter Ll, continue with our Fairy Tale unit, and participate in Valentine’s Day activities.

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 12:  LATE START DAY for students—10:00am start time.  Also, it is alternate dress day!

* Friday, February 14^th:  VALENTINE’S Day—wear Valentine’s dress to school (red, pink, white, or something with hearts J) and have your Valentine’s done by this day because we are going to pass them out.

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