Week of 11/28 - 12/2/11

Yes, I am blogging early this week in preparation for the holiday weekend! Next week we will be learning about Weather/Seasons. We will make a Weather Through the Seasons Book, make raindrops with eye droppers, play with a "rain storm" in the sensory table, search for numerals 0-5, learn about clouds and storms, learn about the letter O, and begin learning about Advent.

Thursday, December 1 - Wear your favorite college colors if you turned in box tops for the Bedlam Battle.
December 7 -14 - SPX will be collecting food for the Christian Ministers Alliance. Preschoolers are asked to donate cranberry sauce.

If you use up any wrapping paper this Christmas season and would like to donate the long paper tube, I would love to have it!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week in Preschool we will make turkey handprints, pretend to make pumpkin pies and muffins, examine different types of feathers, play with brick blocks, learn about the first Thanksgiving and current traditions, and discover that we give thanks for God for all of our blessings.

Thanksgiving Break - No School November 23 - 25

Mrs. Lisa Bierig is now our teacher's aide on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings. Miss Katie Liotta will be our other teacher's aide through December, and she will work Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons, and all day Tuesday and Friday. The kids and I are so excited to have them both in our room!

Thank you for the donations of copy paper for our school.

As you can see, Fire Safety Week was a big hit! We now move on to another fun theme, PETS, for the week of 11/14 - 11/18/11. We will make fish bowl pictures in Art, learn about the care and feeding of pets, share pictures of our own pets, build dog houses in Blocks, play with birdseed in the Sensory Table, pretend to work at a pet hospital in Dramatic Play, sort animals by habitat, and learn about the letter C. In Religion we will learn about caring for ourselves, God's most special creation.

Tuesday, Nov. 15 - Picture Retakes
Thanksgiving Break - Nov. 23 -25 -No School

If you would like to send a picture of your family's pet(s), we would love to see it!
Please help your child decorate the turkey feather that will be sent home on Monday and Tuesday.

Wearing our Saint crowns

Scenes from the Pumpkin Patch

Sorry for the late blog post. I was having some technical difficulties getting pictures downloaded. Luckily tech support was able to help (aka Mr. Newton!)

This week, November 7 - 11, we will be learning about Fire Safety. We will be making fire trucks in Art, playing with Rescue Heroes in Blocks, playing with emergency vehicles in sand in the Sensory Table, and pretending to be fire fighters in Dramatic Play. At group time this week, we will learn some basics about fire safety like Stop, Drop, and Roll, staying away from hot things, what fire fighters wear and why, and that fire needs air to burn. We will learn about the letter U and continue our writing practice in our notebooks. In Religion we will learn that God made people special.

Monday and Tuesday are vision screening days. Wednesday is Pizza Day so please send money for your child if you have not already done so. Next Tuesday (11/15) is Picture Retakes.

We have two new students on Monday-Wednesday-Friday, Tony Scardino and Jamison Edge. We are so excited to have them!