Reading out loud to children is such an integral piece to their development. Scholastic Book Club provides parents with an opportunity to build their children’s library inexpensively. You will have the opportunity to purchase books through the book clubs on a monthly basis. I will not be sending home paper fliers. Instead I will email each month’s fliers. If you are interested in participating, you should complete an order on the Scholastic Book Clubs website. Books typically arrive 2 weeks later. If you are purchasing books for gifts just send me and email and we will be sure we hand them to you on the sly! Any questions just ask!! Book orders will be due by Friday, October 16th. Connect t

Hi everyone! We had another great week in Enrichment! We're continuing to introduce new classroom routines and classroom rules as the weeks progress. This week was an exciting one! This week we introduced our Classroom Cookie Jar. The class earns paper cookies for demonstrating thumbs-up school behavior. After earning a specific number of cookies, the class earns a reward! This week we were practicing our school rule, “Take care of our friends and teachers” by sitting criss cross applesauce, hands in our laps and “Level 0” voices during rug time. The students reached their goal and earned FIVE cookies on Monday and Tuesday! Their reward was 5 extra minutes on the playground on Wednesday! The

Hi Everyone, We ended a great week with an extended recess and also a picnic lunch on our playground today! The children were very excited. On Monday, we started our Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum. We will not be going in alphabetical order because the curriculum is designed to teach the letters by stroke. First are the vertical and horizontal letters. L was our letter this week. The children were all very excited for Show & Tell and to learn to sign letter L. Our song this week was Lazy Lefty Lion. The Reading Street curriculum is a hit too! By request of the class, I read our book Dig! (by Andrea Zimmerman & David Clemesha) again today. In this story, "Mr. Rally and his faithful dog,

Hello All, We all had a wonderful week this week, the kids are doing a super job throughout the whole morning and have been working together!! They have been enjoying the centers and dancing during music time. We talked about the new season and have been doing calendar time each day. They are learning the days of the week and what month we are in as well as counting all the numbers on the calendar. Here is what we had at the centers: Math Table~ Numbers 1-10 cards with links. Discovery Table~ Small cups to build with. They enjoyed stacking them, lining them up and making structures with them. Art Table~ Name Pencils Activity; they had to glue the letters of their name together, add the erase

Another successful week at school! We had beautiful weather and spent lots of time playing outside at recess. I have attached a few recess photos. Favorite activities are riding bikes, climbing on the play structure and playing in the sand box. The children made up a treasure hunt game in the sand box. They have found a LOT of gold! As the days get cooler, please dress your child in layers. If you send them with a sweatshirt or jacket, please make sure it is labeled. This week at CIRCLE TIME we listened to a Barefoot Book called If You’re Happy and You Know It. Barefoot Books are some of my favorite stories because not only do they come in paperback book form with music cd, you can a

Hello Pre K Families, This week we started our letter of the week curriculum. The letter was “L”. At morning circle we discussed the sound L makes, and many words that begin with the Letter L. We also learned the sign for L ( sign language). We also started doing yoga before lunch, they children are loving it. They all held a plank today for 10 seconds!! Show and Tell Tuesday was a success and I was happy to see some creative items coming in to school! Optional homework was sent home to offer a little extra writing and coloring practice. ***There is a sentence at the bottom of the homework for your child to complete, it is open ended and we all enjoy reading the creative thinking!! Next week

Hello All, Our first full week in Pre-K was a great one! Everyone is enjoying the time in our classroom & the beautiful weather outside during recess. The hoppers (bouncy balls) were out on our playground and were a big hit. Our class loves to play chase & ride the bikes. We began our Reading Street Curriculum this week. Our Reading Street book was The House in the Meadow by Shutta Crum (we will read our book twice each week). " Over in the meadow there's a spring wedding, with the couple's 10 best friends to celebrate. What's next? A house! 9 diggers, 8 masons, 7 carpenters, 6 well diggers, 5 roofers, 4 plumbers, 3 electricians, 2 painters, and 1 inspector show up with all their trucks

We had another FABULOUS week at school! The children are enjoying playing together and seem to really enjoy the activities we have at school. I attached a few photos from center time. NOTE: Mrs. Lay found some great masks for little kiddos, they fit nicely and stay up over noses! If your child is having trouble keeping his/her mask up over the nose, you may want to give these a https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CSC5QWV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This week at CIRCLE TIME we read a new book called, Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson (ask your child about what HANDS can do!). This story is a good introduction to self-awareness, which is the first step to social and

Hello Pre K Families, We had a great week in Pre-K and the children are really getting used to our schedule. We started the Reading Street curriculum this week. Our focus this week was all about different jobs people have. This is what is going on in our centers! Dramatic Play Center- The children are still enjoying the kitchen and the home” theme in this center. The dramatic play area changes monthly. Art Center- This week the children used real apples to make apple prints. Look for the star in the middle!. These paintings will be part of their portfolios. Some were also sent home. - This week the children could make a mosaic apple, using 2 different mediums. The first was a larger apple, m

Hi everyone! We had a wonderful first full week in Enrichment! I hope you've been filled in on all the details about their days in school, but just in case this is what we've been doing. And, as promised, I've included some pictures of our time together so far. This week we read I Like Me! By Nancy Carlson. This lead to many discussions about what the students like about themselves, and what makes them happy! We also celebrated International Dot Day! The Dot By Peter H Reynolds is a book about Vashti, who doesn't think she can make art. Her teacher asked her to start small and put something on the paper. Vashti "jabbed" her marker onto the paper. After examining it, the teacher asked her to

Hello All, We had another great week. The kids have really settled in nicely and have worked hard all week using our planning chart during choice time. They are beginning to form friendships and playing with each other. The weather has been so good and they have loved their recess time. They are a such a good class!!! Here is what we did in the classroom this week: Math Table~ Numbered apple cards 1-5 and seeds to put on each of the apples. Discovery Center~ Magna tiles along with plastic family pieces. They really enjoyed building with the magna tiles the last 2 weeks, some would build towers and other built keeping the pieces flat. Art Table~ Paper plate apples. They glued on pieces of ri