November News Letter

November Greetings,
Fall is here and the kids and I have been following daily just how fast the leaves not only change color, but fall off the trees as well. We have been learning about the seasons, and how weather changes. The kids all know what once the leaves are gone WINTER is here!

October was a great month filled with the beginning of the alphabet letters A, B, and C. We did units on Apples, Baking, & Caterpillars. Special thanks go out to Ekness Super Value for making our baking field trip so wonderful.

Letter D leads us right into our Dinosaur unit where kids will be scraping and digging bones out of our wonder buckets at school. Be prepared to hear lots about dinosaurs at home.

Basic skills for October included big, small, sequencing, patterning, short, & tall. We also started our beginning writing skills and our All About Me books. We will be working more on our handwriting and concentrating on getting our names written this month. Be prepared for a bit of homework; so be checking those take home folders daily.

This month’s focus units will be on Dinosaurs, Thanksgiving, Helping others and Family.

My apologies for the lost week of preschool in October. Who knew that waking up with a kinked neck could send me to the hospital for 3 days with a bulging disk. UFF.. I will be gone this Thursday October 27th in the afternoon ONLY. I am going to have a spinal epidural placed in my neck as a way to numb the pain. I am going to give it my all to continue teaching. Thanks for the volunteers that have offered to come in some days. It is much appreciated. Any days here on that I am gone will be discounted on the next month’s payment schedule. I will keep you posted.

Please take time to occasionally check out the ELB Blog. Because I have been sending you paper copies each week, I am no longer posting in detail what we are doing, however I do post special reminders etc, so please be checking it. http://earlylearningbegindergarten.blogspot.com/


Book orders are in and I am once again sending new order sheets out. Order if you like, or simply discard.

We lost a couple of students last month due to oil field people moving. If you know of anybody interested in preschool, please let them know we have openings. We do however welcome Jackson to our morning group. His parents are the new managers of the Gardian Inn.

I am almost done with the logistics of the scratch cards fundraiser so hopefully those will be done and ready to start with in the month. Thanks to those whom have participated in the magazine sales via email. Every penny helps. If you haven’t started please visit this following web site to help support our cause: www.efundraisingonline.com/ELB_preschool
We have raised $149.60 thus far.

In November, we always help out the food pantry by donating 1 bag of food per student to help the pantry during the holidays. Please send your bag of food to school on November 17th. We will be visiting the pantry, and learning about how the food pantry works.

This year we are going something wild crazy and downright fun. We are having a Potluck Preschool Thanksgiving Feast for all families. This is how it will work. On Tuesday November 22nd there will be no regular preschool. Preschool this day will run from 11:00-1:00 for all students and parents. Parents and children are asked to bring a “feast pot luck item” to school, which could be your child’s favorite food. We want foods that children just love. Idea items: pizza, mac & cheese, pb jelly sandwiches, chicken nuggets and fries, pizza rolls, sandwiches, salads, mashed potatoes, spaghetti o’s etc. We are going to have a feast and be thankful together as a large preschool family. I will send a reminder letter home later on. Please note we have 26 preschool students and family, so bring enough to share with all. J

I think this is enough to overwhelm you for you now, so call with any questions.

Happy Autumn,



Ms. Kocher

641-9902 text any time
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