Dear Jack and Jill Families, We have arrived at one of my favorite times of year! This is a time where everyone reflects on all they are thankful for. I have so much to be thankful for this year! I am thankful for the Jack and Jill School community. I am so grateful for the support and warmth that you have shown over the past few months. I am thankful that I get to hear preschoolers laughter in the halls each day. I appreciate all the hard work that each teacher is doing each day and most weekends too. This school could not be the amazing place that it is without each teacher, child and family. Thank you for working as team with me and the teachers. I wish you and your family a happy and h

Hi Everyone, We had a great week at school. You may have heard that we are getting ready for our Friendship Feast which will be on Tuesday, November 24th at school. We have been practicing a song....The Turkey Dance that we will sing for the other children outside on our playground. We will also be having a special snack in our classroom that day so you do not have to send a snack in with your child on Tuesday. Our Reading Street book this week was Subway by Anastasia Suen. "A rush of air, a car is there, hop, hop, hop on the subway. Come along for the ride as a little girl and her mother hop on the subway. From spinning turnstiles and musicians performing on the platform to people hopping o

Good morning families, Time for our weekly update! Because of COVID restrictions, we unfortunately cannot have parents come into the classroom to volunteer. Mrs. Renoni and I want you to know and understand what we do during our day, so we decided to focus on one activity/center per week and explain just what we are working on. This week I will focus on CIRCLE TIME. Every morning at CIRCLE TIME, we work on several skills. These include: · Singing and patting along to the beat during our Hello Song. · Name recognition: The boys are girls are still working on learning the names of their peers. We say their names several times during our song to help with this skill. · Positi

Hello Pre K Families, We had a great week in Pre-K 2 this week, and the children are excited about our friendship feast on Tuesday. Thank you to the parents that asked if I needed anything, it is tradition that PRE-K brings the popcorn! We will be popping it Tuesday morning together as a class. The class did a great job learning our Turkey song that we will be preforming for the school ( outside , socially distanced from the other classes). We are working to build skills and independence with our class, to better prepare them for the next step to Kindergarten. We ask that you please send in mittens, that your child can put on by themselves. The gloves are proving very difficult for some of t

Hi all! It's beginning to feel a lot like... FALL! The wind, cold, and leaves being blown around are what us New Englanders look forward to, right? Okay, maybe not all of us! While we're seeing more fall-like weather recently, please remember to send in hats and mittens, as we have a bit of a windy playground! We're working as a class to remember to put our mittens in our hat and our hats in our sleeves when we take off our coats in the morning. Any help you could do at home to reinforce that process would be much appreciated! As November/Literacy month wraps up please remember to send in those Ice Cream scoops next week! If you don't hand them to Mrs. Lay in the morning, I'll be sure to che

Hello Mixed Age Families, This week went by so fast as they seem to do each week. We were busy and has some fun things to do together. Luckily the weather has not been too cold yet, please remember to pack hats and mittens each day for your child. We go out even in the very cold days and the playground always seems to be a wind tunnel. Thank you in advance. Here is what we did in the classroom this week: Math~ Numbered locks 1-5 and keys to match. The kids really enjoyed this activity this week so I left it out. Discovery~ Decorate the Turkey with feathers. A red colander with a turkey body attached and colored feathers to stick in the holes. Art/Writing~ Handprint Turkey's

Good afternoon families, We had another fun week at school! PIctures are attached and another separate email with MORE pictures!! Just a note- as weather gets cooler, could you please send in a pair of pants and long sleeve shirt to add to their extra clothes bags? If you have already sent in cool-weather extra clothes, please disregard. We also wanted to THANK YOU for reading our emails and sending things in when we ask. We truly appreciate such responsive parents/caregivers and are so happy that we have such a WONDERFUL team of families this year! This year is difficult, and your support means the world to us! We are very thankful for you! This week at CIRCLE TIME we read Goodnight

Hi All, You may have heard the exciting news! We have a new friend in our class. Welcome to Keira & Family! We had a great week at school. Superhero Day was a big hit on Tuesday! We were able to get out for recess each day except for today. The children have been having a lot of fun using the hula hoops as butterfly wings. They have been "flying" around our playground and then meeting on the play structure to have "butterfly meetings". Today, due to the rain, we did an indoor obstacle course, musical chairs, red light, green light & Simon Says. Our Reading Street book this week was another book from our Transportation Unit. Our story was My Truck Is Stuck! by Kevin Lewis. We talked about wha

The holiday season is fast approaching and it will look different this year for most families. It can be difficult for young children to understand these changes. Boston Children's Hospital has a great resource. I used this to help have this discussion with my children. https://discoveries.childrenshospital.org/holidays-during-covid-19/?utm_campaign=FY21BrandNatlcoronavirus&utm_medium=email&utm_source=feature&utm_content=pa11.9 Another helpful link is from the CDC. This link provides useful information about gathering for the holidays. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays.html

Hello Pre K Families, We didn’t have a letter of the week this week due to the Wednesday Holiday, but we were still busy. The children made their turkey hats for the upcoming friendship feast ( November 24th). A highlight of the week was Tuesday's super hero day! The children had a blast playing super heroes on the playground and stayed in character all day! We had a mix of indoor and outdoor recess today! We were outside for 20 minutes and then it started pouring so we headed inside to finish with some time on an obstacle course! I asked the children what super power they would choose. Next letter is U, Show and tell on Tuesday for letter U. This is what went on in the centers this week! Dr

Hello Families, What a quick week, always strange to have only 2 days of school but we certainly got a lot done and the weather was perfect for outside play!!! Here is what we did in the classroom. Math~ Numbered 1-5 locks and keys. This was a very popular center this week. The kids had to match the correct key to the lock by counting the numbers of beads on the key chain. Each lock had a number 1-5 as well as dots for that number so if they could not recognize the number they could count the dots on the lock instead. Discovery~ Foam wreaths with golf tees and elastics. This is a great activity for strengthening the muscles in their fingers. Art/Writing~ Thankful Turkeys (picture included).

Good evening everyone! There's important information, so please read to the end. It was a quick week this week, but we packed it full of fun! We're really getting into the spirit of friendship and thankfulness, continuing to share things we're thankful for and adding them to our tree! This week we added Toys and School! Our book this week was our first non-fiction. We read Life in A Tree by Melvin Berger. We learned all about the parts of a tree, and the many plants and animals that make their home in and around a tree. It even lead to some observations about the tree right next to our playground! The NEW things in centers this week were... Yellow Bins- Who lives there? puzzles Blue Bins- Co

Welcome November! Lots of new materials and activities going on in the classroom that go along with our FARM theme. November is also the month where I do assessments to see what the children have learned so far. I will mostly observe the children while they play, but I will also spend some one-on-one time with them to see just how much they know. You will receive a “report card” in December and we will also have a virtual conference, during which we can discuss your amazing child! Mrs. Renoni and I are so incredibly proud of our students! This week at CIRCLE TIME we listened to another Barefoot Book called, Driving My Tractor. The music recording retells the story of a farmer driving h

Hello Pre K Families, We had a great week in Pre-K! We enjoyed the beautiful weather this week and had some extra time outside! We read a wonderful book yesterday, I like Myself! “High on energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves--inside and out. Messy hair? Beaver breath? So what! Here's a little girl who knows what really matters. At once silly and serious, Karen Beaumont's joyous rhyming text and David Catrow's wild illustrations unite in a book that is sassy, soulful--and straight from the hear’ We took turns sharing what we liked about ourselves… It was amazing!!! NO LETTER OF THE WEEK NEXT WEEK, NO SHOW AND TELL ON TUESDA

Hi everyone! We had a great week in school! A new month means lots of new things in the classroom. And you know they're excited about things when there's a waiting list for multiple centers during center time! Fun times! November in Enrichment is all about friendship and being thankful. Which is why we have started a Thankful Tree! We started this by talking about what it means to be thankful (Something that makes us happy, and we would be sad if it went away) We write one thing a day on a leaf and add it to our tree. The students are coming up with their own ideas of things they are thankful for. The first three have warmed my heart! Brothers and Sisters, Mommys and Daddys, and Pets. We tru

Hello All, This was a very fast week and it's hard to believe we are into November. The kids have been learning the days of the week and the months of the year, They enjoy doing calendar each day. Luckily we had recess outside each day although it was a bit chilly and windy!! Please remember to label their hats and mittens so I know who they belong to, getting ready for outside time can be very busy and things can get mixed up sometimes. Enjoy the picture from the playground! Here is what we did in the classroom this week: Math~ Pegs and peg boards. This activity is always a hit when they are out in the classroom. Discovery~ Small wood pieces and small family figures. They liked to line the