Thursday December 9th

Pledge, calendar, Days, weather, etc.

Walk to the Journal to mail our Santa letters

Gingerbread match game

Gingerbread A-G story

Art: make and decorate Gingerbread men

Letter G Review
G sheets together
G book that child reads
Rhyming words: Goat, Boat, Coat
G handwriting sheet

Those who can dial 911 will receive a treat today...

Tuesday December 7th

Pledge, Calendar, Days, etc.

All About me- free write

We are still learning about fires, and are continuing to reinforce the importance of the many things we have learned..

Read Fire House book
Make fire badges
Do a fun fire fire fighter flannel board activity

Start our G is for Gingerbread Unit
Read the Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread man activity

Letter G
G book
G @ alphabet center
G letter bag
G sheets together
G sheet on own

Art- Christmas wreaths

Letter to Santa due.. We go on Thursday to deliver them...

Thursday December 2nd

We are now back on track.. For now anyhow.. lol

Pledge, calendar days, weather etc.

All About Me books- Fires
All About me books- Thanksgiving

Snacks/stars
Rhylan fruit snacks
Lyndi cheese, crackers

Continue on our fire unit
What do you do if there is a fire? Yell Fire
Who do you call when there is a fire? 911
Never play with fire, matches, candles, stoves, ovens, heaters etc.
Stop, drop, and role

Watch Barnie goes to the Fire Station
Fire drill at school

Art- fire puppets

Letter F is for Fire
Review sheet
f sheets together
R rhyming words: dog, frog, log
F handwriting sheet

I am sending a sheet home that shows a phone. Please use it to teach your child how to dial 911, then show them on their home phone, stressing that it should only be used in an emergency..

Those who can dial 911 on Tuesday will get a special treat

dont forget the santa letters. due tuesday the 7th. We will mail them on the 9th weather permitting.

Remember to return your library books..

Book orders due next week...

:)

We are officially a week behind!!!

Hello parents,
we are officially a week behind. This week will be F is for Fires... Please help your child learn 911 by December 9th so that they may get a special treat.

Newsletter and calendars come home this Tuesday. I have also enclosed another book order. Once again, there is no obligation to buy books. If you wish to order, simply return the book order and money back to school.

If you have any question, please feel free to email, text, or call me..

Ms. Kocher
anjelika.Kocher@sendit.nodak.edu

641-9902
965-2073

December News Letter

Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year Begindergarten Parents,
Attached is both Decembers and Janurary's snack calendars. In January we always start our healthy eating unit, so we take turns bringing things from certain food groups when we have the treat bucket.

FOR JANUARY NOT DECEMBER:
Example: calendar says your child is the star this week, and on Tuesday he/she needs to bring Meat group. Perhaps a sandwhich, meat and crackers, etc. Thursday it says to bring dairy. You could bring cheese and crackers, yogart, icecrean cups, cheese sticks. etc. The possiblities are endless. Same goes for the vegtable and fruit groups. You would be surprised at how much children really learn to like these types of snacks after having them at school. :)

Going back to December, you can see that we will be having our December Christmas party on December 16th. This year to make it easy, if your child is a boy please buy a $5 to $7 boy gift to exchange. If your child is a girl, please bring a $5 to $7 girl gift to exchange. NO CANDY GIFTS PLEASE!!!!

Those bringing food for the Morning party are:

Peyton pickles
Reagan sandwhiches
rhylan something fun/backed etc.
Shyanne chips
Zack brings popsicles or ice cream bars

Those bringing food for the Afternoon Party are:
Jayda pickles
Jackson sandwiches
Lyndi something fun/backed etc.
Presley chips
Sabian popsciles or ice cream bars

Once again the Journal has invited us to write letters to Santa. We make it fun by taking the letters up to the Journal and placing them in the Santa Mail Box. Please sit down and write a letter with your child and send it to school on December 7th. We then in turn will be walking the letters over to the Journal on The 9th. The Journal will not accept letters after the 10th of December, so it is nice that we do it as a class.

December tends to be kind of hectic and goes rather quickly. If I should think of anything else, I will let you know..

Merry Christmas
Ms. Kocher

November 30th

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving.

This week we will be focusing on fires, fire prevention, and fire safety.
The kids will be learning about fires, matches, lighters etc.
They will have a fire drill at school, and will learn about smoke alarms, what to do if they smell smoke, and how to crawl to safety. They will also start learning 911, and how to stop drop and roll.

Read
" The Fire House Book"
Watch Barnie short 5 min video with song.. "Hurry Hurry get the Fire Truck"

All About me Books
Fires

Stars this week are
Shyann
Presley

Art
Fire puppet

Letter G Week
G book
G @ alphabet center
G letter bag
G sheets together
G sheets on own

November 23rd..

Happy Thanksgiving...
pledge, calendar, days etc.
Start focusing more on weather

This week will be focusing on THANKSGIVING.
Pilgrins, Indians, feast to be thankful
Read the book "Thankgiving"

Do a Strange Turkey dinner fun sheet

All About me Books- Thanksgiving

Art- Finger print turkeys

Stars this week:
Morning Ryhlan
Afternoon Lyndi

Letter F:
F Book
F @ alphabet Center
F letter bag
F book for child to read
F rhyming words: dog, frog, log

This week was supposed to be F is for Fire week, but we will focus on Fire safety next week. :)

Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.. See you on November 30th..

Tupperware fundraiser

Hi parents...

Thank you to all of the parents whom went the extra mile and helped sell tupperware. Sadely our total was no where near last year's but the money we did raise helped pay some needed preschool bills.

We raised $954 dollars. That is including the extra money we got for donations.
The first $500 went toward the 1 million dollar insurance policy that I must pay to insure the room/church.

We have $454 to spend toward new things for our class and catch up on some misc expenses.. Again thanks for helping to sell, and get donations. Means a lot.

The order was sent in on the 12th, so I am hoping she will get it next week, and be able to get the orders in in time for Christmas. I will need some help sorting the items once they arrive, so please let me know if you might be available to help.

Ms. Kocher

Tuesday NOV 16th BOOK WEEK!

My apologies for no school no Tuesday the 9th. Payment for December will be $6.00 less than that of the payment schedule..

Short note. Payments are due the 1st Thursday of the month. I have been pretty easy going about recieving late payments, however I am finding myself chasing parents for payments more and more. Those people whom continue to be late will be billed $5 a day late fees unless special arrangments are made. I hate to be so strict, but I no longer have the conveince of my ex-husband's check book, therefore I rely on the very little left I get from the preschool after expenses.. Sorry

We will be going to the Library, so please dress for the weather.

Pledge, calendar, days, weather, etc.

All About me Books- Library Books

Stars of the Week:
Reagan Morning
Sabian Afternoon

Library Unit
This week we will be learning about library books, and how to properly care for them. Children will start out with 2 books from the libary this month, and then will get to check out 3 next month.

We will talk about:
How we hold a book
Understand that this book is borrowed and needs to be returned
Take special care of library books
The front and back cover
Writer and illustrator

Read the book "Tiny goes to the library"

I can not stress enough that books need to be returned to the library on your own. Please do not send them back to school.

Tracy at the libary will be reading a book to the children about the library as well, and showing the children their libary cards.

Art: We will be talking about scissors.
How to hold a scissors
How to carry a scissors
Never ever cut your hair or body with scissors

morning will be cutting scrap paper
afternoon will be cutting books and glueing them on paper

Letter E
E Book
E at alphabet center
E letter Bag
E sheets together
E sheet on own

Thursday Nov 4th Dinosaur Week

pledge, calendar, days, weather..

Review A, B, C,

Bws morning
names afternoon

Stars of the week

Peyton-fruit snacks and cookies
Jayda- pepperoni and pickles/crackers

Continue our unit on dinosaurs
Math-dinosaur counting activity
comprehensin/big and small sheet

Meat Eating Dinosaur
TREX- king of the dinos

Plant Eater
Brontisorus- Thunder Lizard/ sounded like thunder when he walked


Close eyes and pretent you are a dinosaur. What kind of dinosaur would you be?

Dino Ditty Ditty Dum Ditty doo song
Dinosaur game and song

Book: David's Dinosaurs

Letter D
Review D at the alphabet center
D sheet togeter
D handwriting sheet on own
Child reads their D book
D rhyming words- log, dog, hog

remember we will be going to the libray next week. Please dress for the weather. Children will be checking out 1 book.

If you haven't gotten your tupper ware orders to me, please do so. Also November payment is past due, so please get that to me ASAP.

Have a DINORIFIC WEEKEND~~~~

Tuesday Nov 2nd

This week we start our D is for dinosaur Unit..

We will be reading "Daniels Dinosaur" and discussing dinosaurs in great length.
We will be learning about meat eaters, & plant eaters, and will focus on Trex, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops. My apologies if I spelt them wrong. lol

The stars this week are
Peyton (M)
and Jayda (A)

All about me "Dinosaurs"
Begininning writing skills morning
Writing names afternoon

Art
Dino popsicle stick puppets

Letter of the week is D
D book
D at alphabet center
D letter bag
D sheets together
D sheets on own

Novemebr calendar and news letter goes home today. Call with any questions. I am also sending another book order home. Feel free to order. There is no obligation, so order as you please. Every time you order, we get free books and learning materials for our classroom.

:)

Halloween Party October 28th

Last week's Halloween party turned out to be a huge success. The kids had a lot of fun, and I walked away tierd, so all was good. Thanks for bringing your halloween exchange gift. They make nice prizes, and the kids really enjoy bringing something fun home.

:) Thanks also for venturing over to my house for candy on halloween. The kids' costumes were so cute..

Tupperware web site

If you have loved ones etc. that live out of town and dont want to mess with shipping. Have them order tupperware online..

http://order.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/!twx$eparty_ctl.p_dispatch?pv_v=fundraiser&pv_state=ND

click on Early Learning Begindergarten

And away you go..

shop shop shop

Tuesday October 19 C is for Candy Corn

Pledge, calendar days etc.

All About me: Halloween

Snacks/stars:
Jonas Morning
Earlen Afternoon

C is for Candy corn unit

Song: Do you know the candy corn man

Read Book "Julius Candy Corn"

Shape triangle/candy corn
Talk about candy..
What is your favorite kind of candy?
Has anybody ever seen candy corn before?
What colors are on the candy corn?

Smell candy corn
Taste candy corn
History of candy corn

Do flannel board counting candy corn activity
Math:
Have the children count the candy corn in various jars

Art: Candy corn men

Letter of the Week C
C book
C @ alphabet center
C letter bag and letter wall
C sheets together
C sheet on own

Remember we only have a couple weeks left for tupper ware, so keep selling...

Thursday October 14th

Today we continued to explore the seasons. At circle time, I showed the children several pictures of various seasons. Ex. pictures of snowmen, swimming, playing in leaves etc. I then asked the children to help me identify the season.

At art time, we then took the leaves that we had collected outside and made our own tree art. The kids were introduced to liquid glue and were told that a dot was perfect for the job. I am happy to report that the kids did great with the liquid glue.

Today we continued on with Letter B, and the kids did their B handwriting sheet when we were done.

we have started counting down until halloween. The kids know that when the leaves have fallen off the trees and there are not many left, it is halloween. They are quite excited.

The past two weeks we have been using play dough at the hands on table. Kids are leaving how to cut play dough, and form it. They are doing very well.

We will start again with behavior stickers next week. All children received 5 stickers and were allowed to pick out of the Magic toy and treat box. Surprisingly most kids picked fruit snacks. too funny.....

:)

Snacks:
M Hunter pop tarts and choc. donuts
A Chayton Apple sause

Tuesday October 12th Seasons and Letter B

Pledge, Calendar, Days, etc.

Our caterpillars are now in the cacoons, so we will be placing them in their butterfly house. As soon as they open we may begin feeding them and watching them.

Stars of the week;
Morning- Hunter
Afternoon-Chayton

Today we start out unit about the seasons. We will be reading different books talking about winter, spring, summer and fall.

Continue focusing on Fall as our main seasson

What happens in the fall?
What happens in the winter?
What happens spring?
What happens in the summer?

Art- cutting
Morning will just be cutting paper
Afternoon will be cutting a seasons sheet and using glue

All students will get to use glue stix today. They will be gluing their apple trees that they painted last week onto a sheet of paper.

All about me books "Fall"

Thursday we will be going outside and collecting leaves for our art project.

Letter of the week B
B book
B song
B at Alphabet center
B letter bag
B sheets together
B work sheet on own

Reminders that Tupper Ware fundraiser has been extended until the end of the month
Party will be October 28th. Please send a $3 to $5 halloween exchange gift with your child

Payment of $48 DUE TODAY.. Thank you. Those people whos payments are more than a week later will be charged $10, so lets get our payments made on time. Thank you. :)

Thursday October 7th "Apples Apples Apples"

Pledge, calendar, days..

Next week will be do a full unit on the seasons, but this week we have been focusing on Autumn or fall. The kids love the two songs about Autumn that we sing daily.

Started our count down until halloween. Kids know that as soon as all of the leaves our off the trees, it will be Halloween.

Start rhyming today.. Words: ants, pants, dance. Do a fun jump up and down activity with these words. Incooperate these words in to the letter of the week work that Gavyn read to the morning class, and Bethany read to the afternoon class.. Fun experience...

Morning snacks: cookies
Afternoon snacks: fruit snacks

A is for Apple unit
Taste different apples
apple sause
dried apples
apple pie
apple juice

Cut open an apple and look at the seeds, and how they form a star
discuss the different types of apples and how they all taste a little different

Taste different apples: green apples, red apples, and yellow/red apples

math counting apples
Afternoon did a math counting activity and colored an apple tree

Art: painting apple trees

Letter A
A song
A book of the week, read by the stars
A sheets together
A handwriting sheets did on own by the kids

Song: Way up high in the apple tree, 2 little apples smiled at me. I shook that tree as hard as I could, down down came the apples, yum yum where they good.

We then took that song and made it about emotions changing the apples to sad, apples, happy apples, grumpy apples etc. We jumped around, and made faces. Lots of fun.

Apple Week.. A is for Apple Oct 5th

Tuesday October 5th

Pledge, Calendar, Days etc.

Discuss Seasons- Autumn song

Stars of the week
Gavyn Morning- snack Yogart

Bethany Afternoon-snack pudding

* Our caterpillars have now started forming their cacoons. In 10 days, we will have butterflies..

Beginning Writing Skills "BWS" Morning and afternoon

All About Me Books.. Apples

A if for Apples:
Read "Apple Farmer Annie"
Where do Apples come from?
How do they get to the store?
What color Apples are there?
What foods are made from Apples?

Way up high in the Apple Tree play and activity

Counting apples and coloring activity- Afternoon class

Letter of the week A
Read A Book
Sing A song
Do A letter Bag
A sheets together
A at alphabet center

Learn the song, "Where do we start our letters"

Letter A "Writing without tears"
Big Line, Big Line little line "A"

Tuesday September 28th

Today was picture day!!! Hurray, all of the kids appeared to have smiled nicely. It should be a couple of weeks before we get the proofs back, and then you will each get a proof sheet with the opportunity to pick your child's pose. With preschoolers, you just never know what you are going to get. :)

Because we had pictures, we had a semi quiet day.

We continued on with our calendar..

Started beginning writing skills

Watched Butterfly Butterfly video

Went over butterflies one last time
I just got the caterpillars in the mail this evening. 2 are a live, and the rest are dead. I will be contacting the company for a few replacements.

Today Charlie was the star of the morning. The kids had donut holes
Ayla was the star of the afternoon. Dice cookies and fruit. Yum

Next weeks stars are Gavyne and Bethany.

We will be starting the letter of the Day, so remember to fill the bag with items, as well as paper items to be put on our letter wall. Have your child practise the book and have it ready to read on Thursdays.

Keep on selling... I have heard lots of good reports on the fundraiser..

Enjoy the sunshine, I have a feeling it wont be here long..

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Unit

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" was this year's Open House Theme:

Children were guided through the fun story, and then able to help read and perform the story once again using hand puppets.

This story is great for sequencing, counting, colors and much more

Caterpillars have been ordered and kids are anxiously awaiting their arrival. We have gone through the stages over and overs. The children are quite aware that..
1st you have the egg
2nd you have a tiny caterpillar
3rd the caterpillar eats lots and lots of food
4th the caterpillar makes himself a cacoon
5th the caterpillar sleeps for 2 weeks
6th the caterpillar breaks out of the cacoon and is a beautiful butterfly

We will continue on with many fun butterfly projects over the next couple of weeks. Today we made a sequncing sheet, and on Thursday we will be making coffee filter butterflys..

Fly away with your child and his/her imagination.. You will be surprised where you will end up....

September Stars of Week/Snacks

Week of Tuesday 21st
Briged Morning
Ava Afternoon

Week of Tuesday 28th
Charlie Morning
Ayla Afternoon

Reminder no school on Thursday the 30th.

Healthy snack Tuesday, fun baked snack etc. Thursday

We will not start the letter bag, or letter book until the start of October

Open House a success

Thank you to all of the parents and students who came to our open house. We were missing a few students, but we had a great turn out. I think the kids really enjoyed "The Very Hungry Butterfly" unit.

Reminder that each student needs a complete change of clothes and paint shirt. I noticed quite a few students were missingt those in their bins, so please get those to school ASAP.....

Another reminder that your payment of $36 is due on Tuesday, so if you didn't have your check included in your paper work, please get that to me... :)

Thank you to all of the parents who contributed with their parent contribution item. We now have enough plates, forks, cups, napkins etc. for the year. I really apprecaite your helping with these items as these things can get pricy for me to buy all of the time..

See you all on Tuesday!!!!!

Tupperware information

Please have all people write their checks to ELB or Early Learning Begindergarten

Please add 6% sales tax to all orders

Make as many copies as you need.. Dont worry about the yellow duplicate copy. It is not important

Please try to sell a minimum of $100 per family... Come on guys, I know you can do it......

:) Call with any questions
965-2073
641-9902 you may call or text me..

2nd day of School September 23rd

Free play and getting aquainted
Name game once again

Start calendar:
days, months, seasons, colors, shapes and counting 1-10

"It is Autumn Song" discuss season and what is going on outside with the leaves

Snacks:
Morning- Briged
Afternoon-Ava

Introduce the Pledge
Read book about the Pledge
discuss stars and stripes
colors flag and talk about the colors: red, white and blue

Review rules and boundries

Butterfly unit continued
Read the book "Waiting for Wings"
Discuss butterfly and continue reinforcing stages etc.

* we are still awaiting the arrival of our caterpillar eggs. Hopefully they will be here next week.

Art- coffee filter butterflies

Remember school picture day is next Tuesday September the 28th!

STARS next week are
morning: Charlie
Afternoon: Ayla

Remember healthy snack Tuesday and Fun baked snack etc. on thursday

1st day of school

Free play and getting aquainted

Get all school supplies away

Hickity Pickity Bumble Bee Name Game

Barney Book "Barney and Baby Bop To to School"

Snack:
morning Briged: Ants on a log... so cute
Afternoon: Ava Yogart and Honey Graham bears

Stars shared their "All About Me" posters

All about me Books "What I did this summer" Afternoon group

Routines and Boundries
Bathrooms
Toy area
Work area
Ms. Kocher's desk
Off limit areas
Rules of the room

Butterfly unit
Stages and life cycle flannel board activity

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Unit
Read book again and do more sequencing.. more in depth of numbers and colors
Review and do puppet show again
Caterpillar song

Morning group colored a sheet because we had extra time

Song of the day: The Wheels on the Bus

Welcome Back

Dear Begindergarten Parents,
I would like to welcome everybody to the Early Learning Begindergarten blog. This will be a quick and easy way for me to keep parents informed of what is going on in preschool without the extra expense of making copies. This blog shall replace the daily take home sheets that the students have brought home in the past.

For starters, welcome everybody! This year I have many many new things planned not only for our preschoolers, but our parents as well. One of my hopes is to get the parents more involved in school. Things like Muffins for Moms & Donuts for dads are a couple of my ideas. I encourage parents to come visit school atleast once during the year. I do however appreciate a call or email letting me know you are comming. It is always nice to plan bigger projects when I know I have an extra set of hands comming. :)

Open house is set for September 16th, and is mandatory for all students and parents. Morning group will be from 5:30-6:45 and afternoon group will be from 7:00-8:15. This year's theme is "The Very Hungry Butterfly," so come exlore the story with us and help the children paint life size butterflies. It will be very exciting.

Please make sure you have all of your children's school supplies with you on open house night, as well as, your Begindergarten registration packet. A reminder that no child may start school unless I have September's payment and all forms filled out.

Once again we will be doing our Tupper Ware Fundraiser. We were very successfull in raising over $1500 for our class. Please help us be successfull once again. ELB gets no aid from grants, or government funding, so your fundraising keeps our program alive. So ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, SELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..........

This year we have become a part of Scholastic's book club. I will be sending home various book orders that you may look at and purchase cheap books for your child. Each time you order, we get new books for our classroom. If you have any further questions about book orders, please feel free to talk to me.

School Starts September 21st, and will be here before we know it... I look forward to seeing you at the open house!

Ms. Kocher
Anjelika.Kocher@sendit.nodak.edu
701-965-2073
701-641-9902 cell