Happy Spring, or is it Winter? This is the million-dollar question at preschool. We at preschool have decided that spring and winter are fighting and therefore we discuss each day who is winning the fight. The kids are having a lot of fun doing this, and it is the best way to explain why we say it is spring, yet it still looks and feels like winter.
Busy busy month here at preschool, so here we go….
We have finished numbers 1-10 for recognition. While it is important to count count count, we also need to know the basic
1-10 numbers. Know how to both write them and recognize them. This week we start working on our phone numbers, so please help your child learn the number that is best for you all. Could be a cell phone or home phone. Phone number test will be April 19th. We also will do our addresses. Younger preschoolers need only know the city and state they live in, while we will work on home addresses with the older kids.
Easter party will be April 21st. Please send 12 trinkety items with your child to put in their friends’ Easter basket. NO candy please.. Here are some example items: color books, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, kites, pencils, erasers etc.. They have many many cheap Easter items, so the possibilities are endless.
Those bringing food for the Easter party are as follows:
Gavyn & Chayton: chips
Hunter & Earlen: 12 sandwiches
Jonas & Jayda: 1 jar of pickles
Shyann and Jack: Something fun or baked
Peyton & Lyndi: 1 box of Popsicles or ice cream treats
There are 3 book orders coming home. Order from 1, 2 or all 3. Simply discard them if you don’t want anything. Orders are due back to school on April 12th.
We are going to be doing something fun next week in school. We are going be learning about planting vegetables, growing a garden, and how our produce gets to the store. As a part of this unit, we will be learning about sharing. Seems kind of strange, vegetables and sharing, but we are going to incorporate the book “Stone Soup” into our unit.
For this unit, each child will have to bring something to school to help make our soup. The list is as follows:
Ava & Brigid 2 cups of baby carrots
Ayla & Charlie 2 cups of potatoes cut up
Bethany & Gavyn- 2 cans of chicken stock
Chayton & Hunter 2 cans of chicken stock
Earlen & Jonas 1 bag of Egg noodles
Jayda & Peyton 1 stick of butter
Jack & Shyann 1 pkg of crackers
Lyndi & Zach 1 pkg of plastic bowls
Presley & Marcus 1 box of plastic spoons
Sabian- 1 pkg of napkins
Ms. Kocher will bring the stone
It is now time to pre register for next year’s preschool session. Registration is $25 and is due by May 1st. Any registration forms received after the 1st will pay the standard $35 fee. Consideration is given to siblings of our current families, but space is limited so after May 1st it will be available to the public. If you know of somebody whom may be interested in preschool please let them know we are pre registering.
Next year I may be teaming with Scholastic to do a Wednesday morning session of preschool that is unit based. It looks really awesome, and I really want to try it. Older preschoolers that are 4 and 5 are strongly encouraged to attend the third day to help with kindergarten readiness, but it will benefit the young ones as well. I will however be filling it with the older students first.
I was thinking that a possible afternoon of bowling might be fun this year rather than swimming. It all depends however on how many parents have pass ports this year. Last year there weren’t enough parents to help take kids to Estevan for our Spring fun day, so we simply had a pizza party. If you have a passport and would be interested in driving to Estevan with the children for an afternoon of blowing, please talk to me ASAP, so I can arrange something.
I know lots and lots to do and think about this month, and I am sure I have forgotten a half a dozen more things to share with you all.
Please call, text etc. with any questions you may have.
Let’s all hope that Spring wins the fight, or it is going to be a long long wait until Summer.
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