Dear Preschool parents,
I would just like to start out by saying thank you for allowing me to be apart of your child’s life. After finishing up on preschool evaluations, it just melts my heart to know that some of the skills they have learned have come from my teachings. We have such a great group of children this year, and the fun has just yet to start.
Reminders:
· There are still people who have over due books. Please get them back to the library ASAP.
· Payment of $54 is due this Thursday. Those payments not received by this Thursday Feb 3rd are subject to a penalty unless prior arrangements have been made.
· Book orders are due February 8th. I am sending 2 of them home this month. Remember there is no obligation to order, but it every dollar you spend benefits our classroom with free books and learning materials. J
Our Valentine’s Party will be held Tuesday February 15th. Please plan on sending valentines with your child to school that day to share with his/her class. Here is the list of children to plan for:
Morning group (10) Afternoon Group (12)
Brigid Ava
Charlie Ayla
Gavyn Bethany
Hunter Chayton
Jonas Earlen
Peyton Jayda
Shyann Jackson
Zach Lyndi
Elley Presley
Emery Sabian
Zyon
Rhylan
Those bringing food for the Valentines party are as follows:
Morning
Brigid- sandwiches
Charlie-pickles
Gavyn-something fun or baked
Hunter- ice cream bars or Popsicles
Afternoon
Ava- sandwiches
Bethany-pickles
Ayla-something fun or baked
Chayton- ice cream bars or Popsicles
Those not bringing food this time will bring for the Easter Party in April
Progress reports come out this week. Please review it and send back to school. If you should have any questions or concerns about your child’s report, feel free to contact me any time.
Anjelika Kocher
965-2073
641-9902 cell
anjelika.kocher@sendit.nodak.edu
Remember also to check out our preschool blog.
http://earlylearningbegindergarten.blogspot.com/
Sincerely,
Ms. Kocher
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Week of February 1st
Tuesday
Pledge, Calendar, days, months, etc.
Stars this week Earlen and Gavyn
Today we focus on number 2 and will be doing a number 2 sheet
We will be singing the Bird Leg Song, and will discuss the many things that can be found in group of 2's like eyes, legs, arms etc.....
handwriting names morning and afternoon
We will continue to think warm and what better way to be warm than to drink hot chocolate. We will make hot chocolate and will use paint and marshmellows to make hot chocolate cups for our hall way.
L letter of the week
L book
L alphabet center
L sheets together L sheets on own
Catch up oh rhyming words. we are a bit behind.
We will do doing a same and different activity and will be doing a fun beach sheet that we didn't have time for last week.
This week is a week to get back on track and catch up and get in to more steady routines. We finish our evaluations today and those will be handed out Thursday.
Thursday
We do letter Number 3
Handwriting names
catch up on rhyming
and review all letters learned thus far.
L continued
L letter bag
L letter book
L sheets together and on own
Report cards come home. Please send them back next week. If you have any questions about your child's report, please feel free to contact me. :)
Payment of $54 due today. Anything recieved any later than today will be charged a penalty unless prior arrangments have been made.
Pledge, Calendar, days, months, etc.
Stars this week Earlen and Gavyn
Today we focus on number 2 and will be doing a number 2 sheet
We will be singing the Bird Leg Song, and will discuss the many things that can be found in group of 2's like eyes, legs, arms etc.....
handwriting names morning and afternoon
We will continue to think warm and what better way to be warm than to drink hot chocolate. We will make hot chocolate and will use paint and marshmellows to make hot chocolate cups for our hall way.
L letter of the week
L book
L alphabet center
L sheets together L sheets on own
Catch up oh rhyming words. we are a bit behind.
We will do doing a same and different activity and will be doing a fun beach sheet that we didn't have time for last week.
This week is a week to get back on track and catch up and get in to more steady routines. We finish our evaluations today and those will be handed out Thursday.
Thursday
We do letter Number 3
Handwriting names
catch up on rhyming
and review all letters learned thus far.
L continued
L letter bag
L letter book
L sheets together and on own
Report cards come home. Please send them back next week. If you have any questions about your child's report, please feel free to contact me. :)
Payment of $54 due today. Anything recieved any later than today will be charged a penalty unless prior arrangments have been made.
Hawaiian Luau Week
I am very sorry that there was no school Tuesday. Bethany came down with the fever and flu that went through the day care and the school, so it really couldn't be helped.
Because we missed Tuesday we are carrying the letter L into next week as well. The new February Calendar will reflect the change.
Our Luau was so very exiciting. The kids made sun puppets, sang songs about summer, and even had a chance to play with our new school parachute that was purchased with our fundraising money. We watched a short video about fun on an island in the summer sun, and made icecream sundaes.. It was a fabulious day. The kids loved wearing their summer clothes and dancing around in their flip flops. Can't forget the lunch on their beach towels or the millions of beans that were spread around the room as a result of my bright idea of a learning center.
All in all, it went AWSOME!!!!!!!
Back to the real world next week. :)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Week of January 18th
pledge, calendar, days etc.
Stars this week are Briget morning and Bethany Afternoon
Handwriting names morning and afternoon
Letter K
K Book
K @ alphabet center
K letter Bag
K rhyming words
K sheets on own
Start numbers this week
If you haven't returned your child's address, please do so this week.
Art Tuesday
make igloos
Cut and paste sheet
Art Thursday Hot Chocolate cups
We will start using scissors now more and will be trying to use them weekly. Afternoon class is doing well, but those new commers to preschool still have work to do.
This week we will be learning all about winter:
What kind of things can you do in the winter?
How does the weather change?
Show the kids a bunch of winter activites and talk about all of the fun things we can do in the winter.
Healthy Eating:
This week we will start talking and discussing healthy eating and the importance of bringing healthy snacks to school as well as fun snacks.
Thank you to those who have followed the snack calendars suggestions for snacks. I really appreciate it. :)
Ms. Kocher
Stars this week are Briget morning and Bethany Afternoon
Handwriting names morning and afternoon
Letter K
K Book
K @ alphabet center
K letter Bag
K rhyming words
K sheets on own
Start numbers this week
If you haven't returned your child's address, please do so this week.
Art Tuesday
make igloos
Cut and paste sheet
Art Thursday Hot Chocolate cups
We will start using scissors now more and will be trying to use them weekly. Afternoon class is doing well, but those new commers to preschool still have work to do.
This week we will be learning all about winter:
What kind of things can you do in the winter?
How does the weather change?
Show the kids a bunch of winter activites and talk about all of the fun things we can do in the winter.
Healthy Eating:
This week we will start talking and discussing healthy eating and the importance of bringing healthy snacks to school as well as fun snacks.
Thank you to those who have followed the snack calendars suggestions for snacks. I really appreciate it. :)
Ms. Kocher
Week of January 11th
This was a very exciting week. Actually one of my very favorite since starting preschool.
Pledge, calendar days.. etc.
Doing evaluations to see progress of children.
Most children that atteneded preschool last year had significant improvement from class year, especially in letter recongnition. I was actually quite impresed to see the improvements.
Stars:
Ayla- pears and breadsticks snacks
Emery- trail mix
All about me: my favorite sandwich
Letter J:
J book
J @ the alphabet center
J letter bag
J rhyme sheet
J sheets together and J handwriting sheet on own
Color the J pictures cards
Art- snowman potato masher snowmen Start Tuesday
Finish Thursday
Peanut butter unit
Where do peanut come from
Does anybody know how peanut butter is made
Read Peanut butter and Jelly Book
Sing song "Peanut peanut butter"
Thursday kids each had a bag of peanuts and they stomped on them until they were in tiny pieces. Then we put them into the food processor and made peanut butter.
The kids had so much fun, as did I.
It was a fantastic week...
Thanks to those of you who were behind in your payments...
Next week Letter K.
Ms. Kocher
Pledge, calendar days.. etc.
Doing evaluations to see progress of children.
Most children that atteneded preschool last year had significant improvement from class year, especially in letter recongnition. I was actually quite impresed to see the improvements.
Stars:
Ayla- pears and breadsticks snacks
Emery- trail mix
All about me: my favorite sandwich
Letter J:
J book
J @ the alphabet center
J letter bag
J rhyme sheet
J sheets together and J handwriting sheet on own
Color the J pictures cards
Art- snowman potato masher snowmen Start Tuesday
Finish Thursday
Peanut butter unit
Where do peanut come from
Does anybody know how peanut butter is made
Read Peanut butter and Jelly Book
Sing song "Peanut peanut butter"
Thursday kids each had a bag of peanuts and they stomped on them until they were in tiny pieces. Then we put them into the food processor and made peanut butter.
The kids had so much fun, as did I.
It was a fantastic week...
Thanks to those of you who were behind in your payments...
Next week Letter K.
Ms. Kocher
Sunday, January 2, 2011
January 6th
Pledge, calendar days etc.
Hand writing names. All children will be doing their names now. If your child should come home with a BWS beginning writing skills sheet, that is simply because he/she is struggeling with letter formation. For the most part, I believe most are ready to dive straight into their names, and others will move on to last names.
Letter I Review I @ alphabet center
I child reads I book
I rhyming words
Hand writing sheet on own
Ice unit
Talk about ice cubes, ice, and snow.
What makes these things freeze?
Show kids how ice, etc. melts by cooking it in a pan.
What does the ice/snow do?
Touch, taste, and smell ice..
Art- make ice castles
Hand writing names. All children will be doing their names now. If your child should come home with a BWS beginning writing skills sheet, that is simply because he/she is struggeling with letter formation. For the most part, I believe most are ready to dive straight into their names, and others will move on to last names.
Letter I Review I @ alphabet center
I child reads I book
I rhyming words
Hand writing sheet on own
Ice unit
Talk about ice cubes, ice, and snow.
What makes these things freeze?
Show kids how ice, etc. melts by cooking it in a pan.
What does the ice/snow do?
Touch, taste, and smell ice..
Art- make ice castles
Welcome Back...
Welcome back. This is what this week has in store at preschool:
Pledge, calendar, days of the week etc.. The whole Calendar process.
Start the Number of the week to prepare for phone numbers and addresses.
All about me: What did Santa bring you for Christmas
Snacks/Stars of the week
Elly
Ava
Letter I
I @ alphabet center
Letter I book
I sheets together
I sheets on own
I letter bag
With some of the fundraising money, I purchased a couple new letter series, so we will be trying those tracer pages out.
Party:
We will open presents
Watch a short movie
Put new toys our for the month of January
And start some new songs. I purchased 2 new music series for our classroom with fundraising money as well.
Art: decorate snow flakes
Pledge, calendar, days of the week etc.. The whole Calendar process.
Start the Number of the week to prepare for phone numbers and addresses.
All about me: What did Santa bring you for Christmas
Snacks/Stars of the week
Elly
Ava
Letter I
I @ alphabet center
Letter I book
I sheets together
I sheets on own
I letter bag
With some of the fundraising money, I purchased a couple new letter series, so we will be trying those tracer pages out.
Party:
We will open presents
Watch a short movie
Put new toys our for the month of January
And start some new songs. I purchased 2 new music series for our classroom with fundraising money as well.
Art: decorate snow flakes
Happy New YEAR!!! Fun for January
Dear Begindergarten Parents,
January is going to be extra exciting in the classroom.. I am tierd of the cold, and will be helping the kids explore there way through many new units this month. For starters, this week we kick off our unit on I is for ice, icesicles, and Igloos. We will be doing science projects in which the children will be learning about what makes snow, ice, and the freezing process. We will be both making ice and melting it as well.
Next week we will be doing an extra fun unit on Peanut butter and J is for JELLY. We will me making homemade peanut butter and making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as well as learning about peanuts, and jelly themselves.
The following week we will kick off our Healthy Eating unit and start talking about the importance of putting healthy foods in our body. This unit will continue on for weeks, and your helping in bringing snacks from the various food groups will help greatly.
For Letter L, we will be having a Hawaiian Luau. With all of this cold and snow, what better way for us to take a break from it all, but going on an imaginary journey to Hawaii. We will be making Hawaiian flowers, having a sack lunch with our swim suits and beach towels, and will even be making pina coladas.. Sound fun ha?? I can't wait.
Letter M will be our Unit on Mittens and much fun and excitmemt is planned this week as well.
Aside from all of these fun activites, we will be starting out unit on numbers, so we may begin to learn our phone numbers, and will be starting our address memorization as well. BUSY BUSY...
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL... This is going to be a great year in Preschool!!!!!!!
January is going to be extra exciting in the classroom.. I am tierd of the cold, and will be helping the kids explore there way through many new units this month. For starters, this week we kick off our unit on I is for ice, icesicles, and Igloos. We will be doing science projects in which the children will be learning about what makes snow, ice, and the freezing process. We will be both making ice and melting it as well.
Next week we will be doing an extra fun unit on Peanut butter and J is for JELLY. We will me making homemade peanut butter and making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as well as learning about peanuts, and jelly themselves.
The following week we will kick off our Healthy Eating unit and start talking about the importance of putting healthy foods in our body. This unit will continue on for weeks, and your helping in bringing snacks from the various food groups will help greatly.
For Letter L, we will be having a Hawaiian Luau. With all of this cold and snow, what better way for us to take a break from it all, but going on an imaginary journey to Hawaii. We will be making Hawaiian flowers, having a sack lunch with our swim suits and beach towels, and will even be making pina coladas.. Sound fun ha?? I can't wait.
Letter M will be our Unit on Mittens and much fun and excitmemt is planned this week as well.
Aside from all of these fun activites, we will be starting out unit on numbers, so we may begin to learn our phone numbers, and will be starting our address memorization as well. BUSY BUSY...
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL... This is going to be a great year in Preschool!!!!!!!
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