A Peek at the Week
** Please see bottom for speech news**
Well, the day the children had been waiting for arrived on Wednesday. The tadpoles are now in the aquarium, and the children spent the week talking about them, and learning more about the stages of their development. Be sure to ask your child about what s/he saw in the aquarium.
Also at the science center, the bean plant we grew from seed now has full-grown green beans on it, the sunflower seeds have sprouted and are about 4 inches tall, and the potato plant is over a foot tall now! Very exciting!
During the week, the children participated activities involving clothing. During our morning circle, the children rhymed with shoes, shirt, and pants. At the dress up center, the children could dress up as a postal worker, a construction worker, a doctor, a firefighter, a princess, a mother, a father, and a ballet dancer, among others. The flannel board had a boy and a girl that could be dressed in summer clothes, winter clothes or rainy day clothes. We also had this activity available on the colorform board. Matching polka dotted shirts with the correct number, and “dressing” paper dolls were other centers this week, in addition to Look What I Can Do, Blocks, Shelf Toys, and Mrs. Mishou’s speech center.
We continued learning the days of the week song with sign language. This is incorporated into our daily calendar routine to help learn the days of the week.
PT Group
This week in PT group the children visited the Music room, where they played a good old-fashioned game of musical chairs. The children enjoyed moving to the music as they listened for the music to stop. Since the focus wasn’t on who was going to win, the children had fun laughing as they tried to sit in a chair, sat with a friend, and got to watch the game. And, they worked up a sweat while playing!
Looking Ahead
In April we will talk about nature, planting, weather/April showers, Clothing, and Self-Care. Mother’s day, Insects, Community Helpers, and Tools/Machines will be the topics in May. Parents are always welcome to volunteer in the classroom. If you have a special project you would like to share with the class related to one of these topics, you are always welcome to come in!
Feel free to email me anytime at: knagy@cromwellct.org
Reminders:
Upcoming readers: 11:00
April 28 Erin Goss-Gallo
A sign up sheet went home this week for May/June. Please sign up and return it ASAP.
Enjoy your April Vacation!
Please see the attached information on TV turn off week!
Thanks..
Thanks to Mrs. Beck for reading the Sesame Street farming book. The children enjoyed seeing all of the different animals, and it incorporated the science center’s growing plants nicely.
Updated website: Thanks to Mrs. LuBogo, a parent in the afternoon class, the website has been updated. If you have misplaced newsletters, visit the website for previous newsletters. Also, links to informative websites have been added..check them out when you have a minute.
knagy@cromwellct.org
***Speech News****
This week we practiced the “Wheels on the Bus”. Singing is a great way to introduce the concept of rhythm and segmentation. It also helps with following directions. We practice this by listening for the next verse of the song. In addition we worked on the names of everyone in the class, outside words, vehicle words, and feeling words. We always look at people’s faces for clues to help us know how they are feeling. Finally we practiced keeping our teeth closed for the /s/ sound. Have a great break!
Friday, April 16, 2004
Saturday, April 10, 2004
ECS Pre-K Classroom News April 08,2004
A peek at the week
This week at school we talked about weather/April showers. They all worked on coloring leaves, gluing stems, and putting their pictures on a flower project to be hung in the hallway.
Leo our “critter” continues to visit us each day…he has been bringing numbers with him. This week he finished up with zero and nine. He’ll continue to visit us with those letters the children are the least familiar with for the remainder of the year.
Centers this week included matching and counting plastic eggs in the sensory table, rhyming picture words on umbrellas, journals, sequencing paper eggs from smallest to biggest, observing at the science center (still waiting for the frog eggs to get here), dress up/pretend play in the veterinarian/doctors office, and starting a rainbow mural which will be worked on again next week.
We started learning the days of the week song with sign language. This will incorporated into our daily calendar routine to help learn the days of the week.
PT Group
Again this week the children pretended to be a slithering spring creature: a snake. One child rode on the scooter board on his/her belly, tagging the other children. Once a child was tagged, s/he would then be a snake riding on his/her belly on a scooter board. When everyone was a snake, the game started again with the last child tagged as the first snake. This took a lot of listening and following directions…the class did great!
Looking Ahead
In April we will talk about nature, planting, weather/April showers, Clothing, and Self-Care. Mother’s day, Insects, Community Helpers, and Tools/Machines will be the topics in May. Parents are always welcome to volunteer in the classroom. If you have a special project you would like to share with the class related to one of these topics, you are always welcome to come in!
Feel free to email me anytime at: knagy@cromwellct.org
Reminders:
Upcoming readers: 11:00
April 14 Jen Beck
April 28 Erin Goss-Gallo
We look forward to seeing you!
A sign up for May/June will be coming home soon.
Happy Holidays, enjoy the long weekend. See you next week!
Thanks..
A big thanks to Mr. Kupec for reading “Click Clack Moo”. The children enjoyed the silly story. Another big thanks to Mrs. LuBogo for her work on the website..it’s coming together nicely!
Have you visited the class website? Please email me or write a note letting me know if you have visited the class website this year, if you find it useful, and what you would like to see added to it. With the help of Mrs. LuBogo, a parent in the PM class, we hope to have it updated soon. Thanks for your patience.
knagy@cromwellct.org
This week at school we talked about weather/April showers. They all worked on coloring leaves, gluing stems, and putting their pictures on a flower project to be hung in the hallway.
Leo our “critter” continues to visit us each day…he has been bringing numbers with him. This week he finished up with zero and nine. He’ll continue to visit us with those letters the children are the least familiar with for the remainder of the year.
Centers this week included matching and counting plastic eggs in the sensory table, rhyming picture words on umbrellas, journals, sequencing paper eggs from smallest to biggest, observing at the science center (still waiting for the frog eggs to get here), dress up/pretend play in the veterinarian/doctors office, and starting a rainbow mural which will be worked on again next week.
We started learning the days of the week song with sign language. This will incorporated into our daily calendar routine to help learn the days of the week.
PT Group
Again this week the children pretended to be a slithering spring creature: a snake. One child rode on the scooter board on his/her belly, tagging the other children. Once a child was tagged, s/he would then be a snake riding on his/her belly on a scooter board. When everyone was a snake, the game started again with the last child tagged as the first snake. This took a lot of listening and following directions…the class did great!
Looking Ahead
In April we will talk about nature, planting, weather/April showers, Clothing, and Self-Care. Mother’s day, Insects, Community Helpers, and Tools/Machines will be the topics in May. Parents are always welcome to volunteer in the classroom. If you have a special project you would like to share with the class related to one of these topics, you are always welcome to come in!
Feel free to email me anytime at: knagy@cromwellct.org
Reminders:
Upcoming readers: 11:00
April 14 Jen Beck
April 28 Erin Goss-Gallo
We look forward to seeing you!
A sign up for May/June will be coming home soon.
Happy Holidays, enjoy the long weekend. See you next week!
Thanks..
A big thanks to Mr. Kupec for reading “Click Clack Moo”. The children enjoyed the silly story. Another big thanks to Mrs. LuBogo for her work on the website..it’s coming together nicely!
Have you visited the class website? Please email me or write a note letting me know if you have visited the class website this year, if you find it useful, and what you would like to see added to it. With the help of Mrs. LuBogo, a parent in the PM class, we hope to have it updated soon. Thanks for your patience.
knagy@cromwellct.org
Friday, April 02, 2004
ECS Pre-K Classroom News Morning Class April 2, 2004
A Peek at the Week
This week we talked quite a bit about spring, including planting seeds and growing plants. The children planted their own sunflower seed, following a sequence of what to do first, next, and last. We will watch the seed sprout, and see the seedling, and then the plant and last the flower. As a project, the children cut out the pictures of the sequence, colored them, and glued them in order of steps 1-6. These are hanging in the classroom and will be sent home next week.
At the science center, we now have an aquarium with a snail and a few plants in it. The children observed the snail this week, and we talked about our future guests in the aquarium: frog eggs. We learned about the sequence of the frog egg, to tadpole, to a frog. The eggs will be arriving soon, and the children are looking forward to watching the tadpoles transform to frogs. The children colored a coffee filter using eyedroppers, and these will become flowers which we will add stems and leaves to, and hang outside the classroom with each child’s photo in the middle of the flower. Another center this week was sorting pumpkin, sunflower, and carrot seeds. The children guessed which cup contained more seeds, then counted them to find the actual number. Since the carrot seeds were the smallest, it looked as if there was the least amount in that container, when in fact it had the most. Other centers included: dramatic play doctor/veterinarian office, blocks, coloring on our bellies on the floor, and look what I can do. **Vocabulary words for this week are in italics.**
Speech and Language
This week “Bear” sang about the “Wheels on the Bus”. We practiced the verses: horn, lights and wipers. We continue to work on sequencing the 3 events in the “Bear” story. The children have been practicing vehicle words, learning each other’s names, feeling words and outside words. It is amazing how much they have learned. We also practiced the /s/ sound.
Thanks..A big thanks to Mrs. Miller, Darien’s grandmother, for reading “The house I’ll Build for the Wrens” and donating the book to our class. It’s a great addition to our collection!
PT GroupThis week the children pretended to be a slithering spring creature: a snake. One child rode on the scooter board on his/her belly, tagging the other children. Once a child was tagged, s/he would then be a snake riding on his/her belly on a scooter board. When everyone was a snake, the game started again with the last child tagged as the first snake. This took a lot of listening and following directions…the class did great!
Looking Ahead
In April we will talk about nature, planting, weather/April showers, Clothing, and Self-Care. Parents are always welcome to volunteer in the classroom. If you have a special project you would like to share with the class related to one of these topics, you are always welcome to come in!
Feel free to email me anytime at: knagy@cromwellct.org
Reminders:
Upcoming readers: 11:00
April 7 Tom Kupec
April 14 Jen Beck
April 28 Erin Goss-Gallo
We look forward to seeing you!
A sign up for May/June will be coming home soon.
Have you visited the class website? Please email me or write a note letting me know if you have visited the class website this year, if you find it useful, and what you would like to see added to it. With the help of Mrs. LuBogo, a parent in the PM class, we hope to have it updated soon. Thanks for your patience.
knagy@cromwellct.org
This week we talked quite a bit about spring, including planting seeds and growing plants. The children planted their own sunflower seed, following a sequence of what to do first, next, and last. We will watch the seed sprout, and see the seedling, and then the plant and last the flower. As a project, the children cut out the pictures of the sequence, colored them, and glued them in order of steps 1-6. These are hanging in the classroom and will be sent home next week.
At the science center, we now have an aquarium with a snail and a few plants in it. The children observed the snail this week, and we talked about our future guests in the aquarium: frog eggs. We learned about the sequence of the frog egg, to tadpole, to a frog. The eggs will be arriving soon, and the children are looking forward to watching the tadpoles transform to frogs. The children colored a coffee filter using eyedroppers, and these will become flowers which we will add stems and leaves to, and hang outside the classroom with each child’s photo in the middle of the flower. Another center this week was sorting pumpkin, sunflower, and carrot seeds. The children guessed which cup contained more seeds, then counted them to find the actual number. Since the carrot seeds were the smallest, it looked as if there was the least amount in that container, when in fact it had the most. Other centers included: dramatic play doctor/veterinarian office, blocks, coloring on our bellies on the floor, and look what I can do. **Vocabulary words for this week are in italics.**
Speech and Language
This week “Bear” sang about the “Wheels on the Bus”. We practiced the verses: horn, lights and wipers. We continue to work on sequencing the 3 events in the “Bear” story. The children have been practicing vehicle words, learning each other’s names, feeling words and outside words. It is amazing how much they have learned. We also practiced the /s/ sound.
Thanks..A big thanks to Mrs. Miller, Darien’s grandmother, for reading “The house I’ll Build for the Wrens” and donating the book to our class. It’s a great addition to our collection!
PT GroupThis week the children pretended to be a slithering spring creature: a snake. One child rode on the scooter board on his/her belly, tagging the other children. Once a child was tagged, s/he would then be a snake riding on his/her belly on a scooter board. When everyone was a snake, the game started again with the last child tagged as the first snake. This took a lot of listening and following directions…the class did great!
Looking Ahead
In April we will talk about nature, planting, weather/April showers, Clothing, and Self-Care. Parents are always welcome to volunteer in the classroom. If you have a special project you would like to share with the class related to one of these topics, you are always welcome to come in!
Feel free to email me anytime at: knagy@cromwellct.org
Reminders:
Upcoming readers: 11:00
April 7 Tom Kupec
April 14 Jen Beck
April 28 Erin Goss-Gallo
We look forward to seeing you!
A sign up for May/June will be coming home soon.
Have you visited the class website? Please email me or write a note letting me know if you have visited the class website this year, if you find it useful, and what you would like to see added to it. With the help of Mrs. LuBogo, a parent in the PM class, we hope to have it updated soon. Thanks for your patience.
knagy@cromwellct.org
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