Preschool 3 February Newsletter

Hello all! Wow it was very difficult to talk about winter with all these gorgeous days recently.  The month of January was packed with all kinds of exciting activities.  One of the children’s favorites was the beach party in the middle of our room.  Thank you to all the parents who helped remember items to share.  We want to wish a belated happy birthday to Kaylee B. who turned five in January. Also birthdays coming up in February are; Riley, Naomi and Adrianna.  Some of the children maybe moving back and forth to Kesha for short visits or daily due to teachers being sick and for five year olds, the ratio for teacher to child is 1 to 20.  If you have any questions please see Jeris and we will do our best to make sharing rooms easy.

Valentines day in coming quickly and we want to include you in how we do the party and valentines.  WE DO NOT PASS OUT LISTS, this is because many of the children can not write everyone else’s names and to pass out 20 x 20 is a preschool teachers nightmare.  Therefore we are asking for the children to practice writing their own name on each valentine for 20 of their classmates.  We are making holders in class so no need for shoe boxes at this time.  If anyone would like to bring in stickers, hearts or decorative ribbons to share that would always be welcome.  We will be having our party on Tuesday, February 14 and a sign up for fruit pizza items will be coming soon. 

Sara and I have been working very hard at finishing your child’s portfolio, which includes photos and examples of Aesthetic, Cognitive, Language, Physical, Social and Emotional learning which we will share during conferences closer to April.  Please feel free to ask about these sooner if your child may be moving before that.

We need to address the issues of birthday parties that are being spoken about in the classroom.  If your child is having a birthday party the entire class needs to be included or no-one, unless you get their address outside of preschool.  Many of the children’s feelings are getting hurt because the children will say, “you can’t come to my birthday party, but you can.”  We try very hard to soften the blows of the outside world, so help us to be kind to everyone while here at school.  Also talk to your children about hurting other peoples feelings and not discussing their parties in front of others if not everyone is invited.  This is the same as in public school so please take a few minutes to explain this.

As part of our national accreditation we are asking for parents to please bring in a family photo.  This helps with children missing you during the day, and also gives us a great opportunity to discuss different kinds of families.  A few of our themes for this month will be national dental month, Ground Hog Day, Valentine’s, Presidents Day and Jell-O week.  In the house center we will be changing to a pizza parlor.  This will include learning about money, and fractions.  We will be having a visit from the dentist and working on a field trip to a pizza place.  Again if anyone would like to come and talk about their jobs we would be happy to learn and ask questions.  Also please remember if you are planning on bringing a pet, you need to get permission from Kelley or Jeris.  Thank you for having such great, amazing, fun loving and thoughtful children.                                             Lynne and Sara