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Happy Happenings
Watch Us Grow!
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Our first week of the new school year was fantastic! All of the students are adjusting well to their new classes and new schedules!
This week, we will continue meeting new friends, exploring new classrooms,and learning new routines. We are continuing our All About Me theme with a Five Senses Unit so that we can learn a little bit more about ourselves and our classroom friends. Class schedules are in each section this week. Please look at them so you will have a better understanding of your student's day. It is very important that they arrive in time to begin the day with their friends and to be able to participate in all the daily activities. We are still registering for the fall, please pickup new registration forms from the office to make sure that we have your most current information and pay your $50 registration fee. Remember that we give a $50 referral fee for our families that send their friends! We will be closed next Monday for Labor Day! Enjoy the time with family and friends!
Each week the students prepare and eat a special snack that corresponds with our unit of study. We try to make them fairly nutritious and fun. This week our special snack is going to be popcorn.
We have several students with severe peanut and tree nut allergies and need help from all of our families to keep our students safe. Please do not send your student to school with peanut butter, peanuts or tree nuts of any kind. We are removing it from our menu. We are asking all families to respect this to keep the students safe. Thanks for your help!
Remember to to keep at least one set of extra clothes in your student's cubbie. Please make sure everything is labeled and kept in a closed gallon ziploc baggy. If your student has an accident and does not have a change of clothes, we will have to call you to bring them a set. This is so important. When we do not have extra clothes for your student it is uncomfortable for them and requires a lot of teacher time which takes her out of the classroom and away from learning.
We will be placing a Scholastic book order soon. This is a perfect way to get great prices on books for your kids and help us earn free books for our classrooms. There are book orders on the front desk or you can use the link below at anytime. The code is HQ397.
Tumble Bus comes every Wednesday. If you would like for your student to visit or enroll, forms are available in the office. They offer a free trial class to everyone that is two or older.
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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AM Snack
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Pancakes
Water
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Cereal
Milk
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Granola Bars
Juice
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Chex Mix
Popcorn
Juice
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Oatmeal Cookies
Milk
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Lunch
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Hot Dogs
Raw Broccoli w/ranch
Watermelon
Milk
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Bean, beef and cheese tostados Lettuce and Tomatoes
Apples
Milk
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Spaghetti
Salad w/Italian
Pineapples
Milk
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Sloppy Joes
French Fries
Peaches
Milk
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Turkey
Salad
Croutons
Apple Slices
Milk
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PM Snack
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Vanilla Wafers
Juice
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String Cheese
pretzel Sticks
Water
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Tuna & Crackers
Water
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Applesauce
Graham Cracker
Water
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Animal Crackers
Yogurt
Water
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Hot Dogs
Raw Broccoli w/ranch
Watermelon
Milk
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Bean, beef and cheese tostados Lettuce and Tomatoes
Apples
Milk
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Spaghetti
Salad w/Italian
Pineapples
Milk
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Sloppy Joes
French Fries
Peaches
Milk
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Turkey
Salad
Croutons
Apple Slices
Milk
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A nutritious breakfast sets your students up for a wonderful day of learning and playing. A sugar filled breakfast will lead to high activity levels and an ugly crash when it wears off. Here is a great article about eating a healthy breakfast.
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The
infants are going to be doing lots of fun activities this week with their Five Senses Unit
. Their teachers Mrs. Mayra, Mrs. Joanne, and Mrs. Lisa have a great week planned for them. They will be
reading The Noisy Book, I Went Walking, and Mr. Brown can Moo, can You?
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They will be
singing Hop, Hop All Around, Shake It, and Hit Your Drum.
Their fine motor activities will be squishing bananas and putting fruit o and off the felt board
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Their gross motor activities will be shaking maracas and dancing, playing drums, and moving around on tummies. Their art and sensory activities will be painting with textured sand paint, finger painting with cinnamon scented paint, exploring bubble wrap, and touching sensory hoops with different fabrics.
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Terrific Toddlers
The Toddler teachers Mrs. Stephanie, Ms. Cristal and Mrs. Katrina have a fun week planned for their Five senses
Unit. Some of the books they will
be reading are The Ear Book, I See, and Our Favorite Things
. Some of the songs that they will be singing are Hokey Pokey, Bunny Fingers, and The Body Song.
Their vocabulary
words are eyes, ears, nose and mouth, and their signs are more and eat.
They will be focusing on body parts that use the five senses and using their senses as much as possible. Some of
their fine motor activities will be sorting soft and hard items like cotton balls and wooden cubes, picking up sticky tape balls, shaking different objects that rattle, and picking up feathers and moving them from bowl to bowl.
Some of
their gross motor activities will be marching with instruments, jumping on bubble wrap, playing Simon Says, and and dancing and acting out The Body Song.
Some of their art and sensory activities will be painting with jingle bell paint brushes, finger painting with colored yogurt, using cinnamon sticks and water to make pictures, exploring the rice table to find shapes, exploring sensory cubes, and painting on foil.
Their cooking activity will be making jello.
Please make sure your toddler has plenty of diapers and wipes and at least two changes of clothes in ziploc bags. Everything needs to labeled with their names and left in their cubbies. Also, please make sure they are here before 10:00 am. When a toddler arrives right before nap, they do not sleep and cause all of the class to stay awake. Children this age really need an uninterrupted nap time. If you need to come in late, please wait until after nap at 3:00.
Young Toddlers
Older Toddlers
9:00-930 Snack
900-915 Circle Time
930-945 Diapers
915-930 Diapers
9:45-10:00 Circle Time
930-1000 Snack
1000-1015 Fine Motor Skills
1000-1030 Creative Expression
1015-1030 Outside
1030-1045 Outside
1030-1100 Creative Expression
1045-1100 Fine Motor Skills
1100-1130 Lunch
1100-1130 Free Choice Centers
1130-1200 Free Choice Centers
1130-1200 Lunch
1200-1215 Music and Movement
1215-1230 Story time (Lay down mats/Diapers)
1230-230 Naptime (Diapers as they get up)
230-300 Snack
230-300 Dramatic Play
300-330 Dramatic Play
300-330 Snack
330-345 Outside
330-345 Diapers
345-400 Diapers
345-400 Outside
400-430 Sensory
400-430 Gross Motor Skills
430-500 Gross Motor Skills
430-500 Sensory
500-515 Transitions (Diapers, Bottles, Songs)
515-530 Outside
530-600 Free Choice Centers
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Twirly Twos
Ms. Joana has a wonderful week planned for the Two's and their Five Senses Unit! We have Ms. Dominique subbing in that classroom this week, Mrs. Jessica will be back next week. They will be learning about their five senses and exploring how to use them to explore their world.
Some of the books that they will be reading this week are Look...What Do You See?, Who Says That?, The Five Senses, Smell, What Do You Feel, Touch, and The Noisy Book. They will be singing The Five Senses, Part Of Me, and They Are Five. A Few of the things they will be doing to
strengthen their fine motor skills are making stick puppets, exploring different textures, Mr. Potato Head, gluing pictures to make food collages, and lacing large beads.
A few of the things they will be doing to improve their gross motor skills are tossing bean bags into buckets, doing the Silly Workout, walking on the balance bean, jumping on bubble wrap with bare feet, and jumping from shape to shape. Some of their art and sensory activities this week will be painting with bubble wrap, making paper plate shakers, painting with cotton balls, exploring sand paper and the sounds it makes when rubbing together, painting with koolaid powder and spray bottles of water, cookie cutter painting, exploring different berries with smell, coloring on sand paper, and and making and using easy smelly playdoh
. Their cooking activity this week is taste testing different foods.
Please make sure
your student has plenty of diapers and wipes in their
cubbies. They also
need at least two changes of clothes in ziplock
bags labeled with their names. If they are potty training, remember to make sure they have plenty of wipes, pull-ups or underwear and at least four changes of clothes. Wet clothes need to be taken home daily. Please check both cubbies daily and the bulletin board outside the classroom.
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Red Group
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Blue Group
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Purple Group
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900-920
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Snack
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Circle Time
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Potty Time
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920-940
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Potty
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Snack
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Circle Time
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940-1000
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Circle Time
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Potty
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Snack
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1000-1015
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Outside/Gross Motor
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Creative Expression
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Fine Motor
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1015-1020
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Potty
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1020-1030
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Fine Motor
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Outside/Gross Motor
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1030-1040
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Creative Expression
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1040-1045
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Creative Expression
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Fine Motor
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1045-1100
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Outside
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1100-1120
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Lunch
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Potty
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Dramatic Play
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1120-1140
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Dramatic Play
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Lunch
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Potty
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1140-1200
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Potty
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Dramatic Play
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Lunch
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1200-1220
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Outside
1 teacher come in with a few kids if needed to lay down mats.
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1220-1245
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Story Time on Mats
Potty a few at a time.
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1245-245
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Naptime
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245-300
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Snack
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Music and Movement
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Potty
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300-315
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Potty
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Snack
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Music and Movement
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315-330
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Music and Movement
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Potty
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Snack
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330-350
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Outside
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Building Center
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Sensory
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350-410
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Sensory
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Outside
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Building Center
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410-430
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Building Center
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Sensory
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Outside
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430-445
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Potty
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Reading Center
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445-500
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Reading Center
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Potty
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500-600
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Free Choice Centers
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Ms. Carla and Ms. Diana
have a wonderful week planned for the threes and their Five Senses Unit
. They will be learning about and using their five senses while engaging in a variety of hands on activity.
Some of
the books they will be reading are You Touch With Your Fingers, The Listening Walk,
I Went Walking
, and You Can't Smell A Flower With our Ear!
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Their letter of the week is "Tt" for taste. Some of the songs they will be singing are I spy With My Little Eye, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Wheels On The Bus, and ABC.
Some of their language activities this week will be creating a five senses chart,making textured "T's",peer hand massages,tin foil name recognition,playing with ABC I Spy bean bags, outside listening walk, matching letter blocks with carpet letters, and letter lacing.
Some of their
math, science, and manipulative activities this week
are building their home with blocks, playing with Science Center magnets, sound matching, sorting with ice tray, puzzle play, shaving cream activities, shape lacing, cutting practice, dominoes play and sort, and sand activities.
Some of their art and sensory
activities this week will be painting with beats, test tasting with flavored milk, painting with frozen Kool-aid, creating a texture collage, observational drawing, painting with bells, blindfolded painting, and chalk drawing on gate. Their cooking activity this week will be preparing the flavored milk for their test tasting activity.
 All toys need to be left at home. The
children are not allowed to play with them at school. When they bring them, it becomes an all day long battle and takes away from instruction time. Food and drinks are also not allowed in the room at anytime, they will be discarded!
Please make sure your student has a complete change of clothes in a ziplock
bag in their cubbies. If they want a blanke
t for nap, please make sure they are small and fit nicely in their cubbies. Also, no food or drinks are allowed in the classroom. If it is put in cubbies, it will be thrown away.
THREE'S DAILY SCHEDULE
Group A
Group B
840-900 Morning Circle
9:00-9:30 Snack/Potty
9:00-9:30 Language
9:30-10:00 Messy Room
9:30-10:00 Snack/Potty
10:00-10:30 Language
10:00-10:30 Messy Room
10:30-10:50 Outside
10:50-11:00 Potty/Wash Hands
11:00-11:30 Lunch
11:00-11:30 Math
11:30-12:00 Math
11:30-12:00 Lunch
12:00-12:30 Outside
12:30-12:45 Story Time on mats
12:45-3:00 Naptime
3:00-3:15 Restroom Break
3:30-4:00 Snack
4:00-4:30 Outside
4:30-4:45 Story Time
4:45-5:00 Movement
5:00-5:45 Free Choice Centers
5:45-6:00 Teacher Selected Activities
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Ready to Explore
Pre-K Four
Mrs. Erika and Mrs. Amy are excited about the new school year and have some wonderful things planned for the Five Senses Unit. They will be learning about the different senses and how they use them to learn. Some of the books they will be reading
this week are The Listening Walk, You See with Your Eyes, Sounds All Around, Tasting, and I Have Five Senses.
They will be singing Sound Song, The Smelling Song, My Senses, I Use My Eyes to See, and I Have Five Senses.  Their letter of the week is Bb and they will be learning it's name and sound.
Some of their language activities will making a chart of Bb words, chanting the Bb book, making five senses hats, letter Bb collage, push pin Bb, what is that smell activity, making a class book, Bb rubbings, name puzzles, guess what is in the bag, making texture collages, fingerprint names, playing I Spy, Bb is for butterfly activity. and making Bb take home books to read.
 Show and tell day is Friday and they will need to bring something that begins with Bb. Please help your student participate, they are very sad when they do not have what they need.
Some of their math and science activities will be counting sounds, sorting textures, taste testing bitter, sweet, sour, and salty, bears and balloons matching game, graphing smells good and bad, bingo marker patterns, sorting buttons, Lego magnet patterns, hunting for objects in bag using touch, sorting shells, butterfly math number roll and stamp, five senses potato head game, making kaleidoscopes, drawing and then building structures, sensory bags, five senses sorting, and the five senses clothes pin game.
Some of their art and sensory activities will be making  plate making noise makers, torn paper collages, painting with jingle bell paint brushes, exploring the sensory table with pasta and pipe cleaners, kool aid painting, smelly paint, exploring kool aid scented playdoh, texture painting, making and playing with GAK, finger painting, drawing in colored shaving cream, sponge painting, bubble art and pudding painting. Their cooking activity will be tasting different types of strong foods.
All toys need to be left at home. The
children are not allowed to play with them at school. When they bring them, it becomes an all day long battle and takes away from instruction time.
Please make sure your student has a complete change of clothes in a ziplock bag in their cubbies. If they want a blanke
t for nap, please make sure they are small and fit nicely in their cubbies.
730-800 Breakfast
800-850 Free Choice Centers
850-915 Morning Circle Time
915-925 Language Circle
915-935 Snack/Potty
925-950 Language Sm. Groups
935-950 Outside
950-1010 Snack/Potty
950-1000 Language Circle
1010-1030 Outside
1000-1025 Language Sm. Groups
1030-1040 Math Circle
1030-1100 Messy Room
1040-1105 Math Sm. Group
1100-1105 Math Circle
1100-1130 Messy Room
1105-1135 Math Sm. Group
1130-1200 Music and Movement
1135-1200 Lunch
1205-1230 Lunch
1200-1230 Music and Movement
1230-1245 Outside
1245-100 Potty/Stories on Mats
100-300 Naptime
300-320 Snack
320-400 Outside
400-425 Messy Room
400-430 Teacher Directed Centers
425-455 Teacher Directed Centers
430-455 Messy Room
455-505 Storytime
505-530 Outside
530-600 Free Choice Centers
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Learning is Alive in Pre-K 5
Mrs. Missy has a wonderful week planned for the Five Senses Unit and is very excited about her new class! This week they will be be starting on their weekly letter of the week and this week they will be learning about the letter Aa and the short sound that it makes. They will also be focusing on two sight words each week and this week they are learning A and we. Some of the books that they will be reading are My Aa Book
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Me and My Senses
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Look, Listen, and Learn
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Your Five Senses
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Sense Suspense
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Some of the songs they will be singing are Five Senses, The Big Five, Eye Winker, and Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Mouth. A few of their language activities are making a chart of short Aa words, Aa is for ants project, hand and foot action cards game, starting ABC yarn book with letter Aa, letter rubbings, spin and build Mr. Potato Head, playing Cranium Hullabaloo game, making senses flip books, ABC magnet book, five senses body riddles, making and reaing five senses mini book, letter memory game, playing Boggle Junior, playing Ned's Head, and dry erase board letter tracing.
 Friday is show and tell day and they will need to bring something that their hands feel. Please help them participate in these activities, talking in front of people is an important skill and gives them a moment in the spotlight! In math and science, they will be playing I Spy, texture dominoes, sorting and building connecting cubes, exploring the numeral three and making sets of three, sorting soft and hard textures, practicing using scissors, making sets of three color cubes, playing drums and counting beats, sound matching, making shapes on geoboards, graphing favorite sweet or sour after taste test, five senses dice game, Sense Suspense science game, making texture counting sticks, and making a chart of the five senses. Some of their art and sensory activities will be painting with scented paint, using watercolors, exploring the sensory table of noodles and pipe cleaners, Mr. Potato Head art, tracing and painting their hands, roller painting Aa, painting to fast and slow beats, stamping with paint and cookie cutters, using cutters and playdoh, drawing with colored pencils, painting with texture rollers, foam painting, and finger painting. Their cooking activity this week is making a sensory snack.
Please make sure your student has a change of clothes in a ziploc bag in their cubby. All types of spills can happen. Please make sure your student arrives prior to 9:00. This is an important year with many things to learn prior to beginning school. Arriving late means they will be missing important lessons.
Daily Schedule
8:30-9:00 Arrival/Free Choice Centers
9:00-9:20 Language Circle Time
9:20-10:00 Language Small Groups
10:00-10:20 Morning Snack
10:20-10:30 Bathroom
10:30-10:50 Math Circle Time
10:50-11:15 Math Small Groups
11:15-11:30 Outside
11:30-12:00 Science & Creative Expression
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-12:40 Bathroom
12:40-1:00 Outside
1:00-2:30 Quiet Time
2:30-2:45 PM Snack
2:45-3:15 Music and Movement
3:15-4:00 Outside
4:00-4:30 Teacher Directed Centers
4:30-5:00 Messy Room Fun
5:00-5:15 Story Time
5:15-5:35 Outside
5:35-6:00 Free Choice Centers
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Super School Agers
The school age class had a great week transitioning back to school and will continue working to establish new routines. Mrs. Missy will be with them in the afternoon and is more than happy to assist them with their homework if you want her to. Please make sure you let her know if you want your student to work on
homework. Many families want to do it at home and she will not have them do it at school unless you tell her. When they arrive in the afternoons, they are always starving, especially since many of them had lunch before 11:00. To help combat that, we are changing how we do afternoon snack for this class. We will now be serving them a much larger snack. It will be a full meal and will be called after school supper. Please see menu posted above for details. After they eat and have some outside time, they will also have many activities to
 choose from. Some of their game and manipulative choices will be I Spy, Ned's Head, Charades, Texture Dominoes, and Listening Match Game. Their outside games will be playing Sardines, Hula Hoop relays, Bit Dicey Game (minute to win it game), Toilet Tag, and doing a Flash Flood STEM challenge. Their art and craft choices will be making a five senses collage, Mr. Potato Head craft, texture painting and making scratch and sniff stickers. Their cooking activity will be making sunshine shakes.
If your student needs a ride to school please make sure you have them here and ready to leave by 7:15. If your student does not need
to be picked up from school please call us by 1:00 pm to let us know. We will not leave a school without a child unless we hear from a parent that they are not there. This will cause us to be late to the other schools so if you do not call us there will be a $10 fee.
3:30-4:00 Teacher Directed Centers
4:00-4:30 Afternoon Snack
4:30-5:00 Outside
4:30-5:00 Messy Room Fun
5:00-5:30 Creative Expression
Homework Help
5:30-6:00 Free Choice Centers
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Future F
un
Next week we will be moving on to a transportation unit. Our special snack will be traffic light graham crackers!
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Wow, what a day! You will be starting Pre K!
We are so very excited for you and your family to join our classroom. We will have lots of fun this year. You will get to go to the messy room, play on the big playground, and go on many learning adventures. We know you will just love it. To make it a smooth transition into our classrooms we wanted to share a few quick reminders.
- Please make sure to say hello to the teacher every morning so she knows you are here.
- Breakfast time is until 8am in the cafeteria. No food or drinks may be brought into our classroom. If you are wanting to bring a lunch or snack, please bring it in a labelled lunchbox. Any food not in a lunchbox will be thrown away to prevent other children from getting
into it.
- We have plenty of toys to play with here in our classroom. Please leave your toys at home to prevent them from getting lost.
- You will have you very own cubby in the classroom. This cubby is for your blanket and change of clothes. Due to space limitation please do not send any pillows, large blankets, or stuffed animals to school.
- You will also have your very own hook in the hallway. This is where you can hang up your jacket and backpack if you bring one. Please only bring a backpack if you need one.
- You will get to go outside and play of the playground many times a day. We want you to be safe at all times so please do not wear flip flops, cowboy boots, and shoes that easily fall off of your feet!
Ready to have fun? I know we are! So put on a smile and get ready to blast off on an awesome adventure in learning at The Growing Place!
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