BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com

Crozet Newsletter
July 2nd, 2010

Upcoming Events:

*Monday, July 5th, We are closed in observance of Fourth of July!
*Friday July 9th, USA Night themed Children’s Night Out!
*Wednesday, July 21st, Staff Appreciation Day
*Friday, July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii themed Children’s Night Out

Weekly Financial Memo:

Please include your child's last name when signing up for lunch. We have several children with the same name and also need to apply the charges to the correct account.

Re-registration fees are due by August.
Re-registration fees will be charged to automatic credit card payments on the August billing.

School News and Notes:
We had another WONDERFUL week! We welcomed some new friends this week and played with the old! This week’s theme was animals. The Rooster class went on a Safari looking for all the zebras and lions! The three year olds loved reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear! The Walrus class made up a neat story about “6 Little Froggies”. It is posted outside their door- Check it out! They first learned about the parts of a story and took turns creating their own story!

We will have another Children’s Night Out- USA Night! If you would like to go out to eat, go to Friday’s after Five, get some shopping time, or have a little YOU time sign you child(ren) up!
We will have a wonderful time making neat art projects, playing fun USA games, and eating great nutritious food!! SIGN YOUR CHILD UP TODAY! :)

FIELD TRIP REMINDER!
We are having a field trip on July 6th when we get back from the 4th of July! This is for the Bunny, Rooster, and Walrus classes!
We will be leaving at 9:30 to get there by 10:00. We will be back by 11:30! Please let us know if you plan to go on the trip. We need to make sure we have enough drivers! If we don’t have enough drivers we will have to cancel the trip!

The cost is $4.00 per child. That should be paid ASAP at the front desk. (This signs your child up! Please sign up to drive on your child’s door!)

For Fourth of July here is a great recipe for a picnic or potluck!

Fourth of July Fruit Plate:
Ingredients:
2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed
2 cups natural low-fat yogurt
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 watermelon, sliced
6 cups blueberries

Directions:
Combine whipped topping, yogurt, nutmeg, and vanilla. Chill until serving time. cut watermelon slices into triangular wedges. Place the bowl of topping in the middle of a large plate. Arrange the blueberries around the bowl. Finally, place the watermelon wedges, tips out, on edge of plate to form a star effect. To serve, dip fruit into topping and enjoy. Yield: 6-8 servings.

Tip of the Day:
Ants are allergic to white chalk! To keep them away from food on your 4th of July picnic, draw lines along the edges of the picnic table with white chalk!

Class Notes:

The Pelican Class

 We started the week off with a lot of friends coming back from vacation and some going off to have fun with their families. To have more fun we played with animals in the backyard making several sounds like a cow, horse, chicken, pigs, and all of the others too. We read Baby Animal Book and Baby Zebra so we could learn all about how a baby animal is born and how it’s mother takes care of the baby animal, all about how he or she can tell who his or her mama is by her zebra stripes. We have been looking at pictures of mommies, daddies, boys, and girls and reading the name out to them. Silly songs like 10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed always makes them laugh and so does splashing their feet in the water to cool them off. Finn and Sage love lying on the floor together while hitting their feet together, smiling at each other and playing peek-a-boo. Exercising on the floor rolling back and forth, lifting and their legs up is also one of their favorite things to do.
We hope everyone has a great 4th of July! Be safe! See you on Tuesday, the 6th of July.
-Ms. Sue

The Kangaroo Class

This week in gross motor we danced to pow-wow music with drums and tambourines, we ran in a circle as a group, and jumped high and low.  We pretended to be shakers and were shaking all around the room. We set up a tent and had red blocks as our fire. We danced and played drums at our own powwow.
 In fine motor, art, and sensory we made powwow hats with strips of brown paper and colorful feathers. We made noise maker with plastic bottles. We painted on our easel our side with water and finger painted with read, white, and blue, paint. In sensory we enjoyed playing with colored noodles, water, and our smell bottles. We enjoyed hiding a toy under the blanket and guessing what it is. We also really liked blowing bubbles and catching them before they hit the ground. We had so much fun this week. Have a fun and safe holiday weekend! See you Tuesday.
-Ms. Jen

The Peacock Class

Hello Peacock families and friends, this week in class we have had lots of fun learning about animals; animals that live on the farm, in the ocean, at the zoo, in the jungle, and in the desert. Lots and lots of animals! We practiced singing Old McDonald had a Farm and other animal songs. Some of the groups’ favorites were 5 Speckled Frogs, Baby Bumble Bee, and Brown Bear! We were able to read all sorts of animal books during our circle time, as well as talking about animals that we have seen in person or in books. We also had fun pretending to be different animals like dogs, cats, fish, birds, and many more. We are continuing to have fun in the sprinklers and we invite you to come and have a fun water day with us when you have some time off. We go out to the water park between the times of 10:15-10:45. We’d love for you to come!
Happy Summer Time!!
-Ms. Lee

The Bunny Class

Hello Bunny Class Families! What a great week in the Bunny Class. We have been working really hard on our letter recognition skills. We practice with flashcards, the magnets on the doors and other things around the room. The Bunnies do a great job finding their “special letters” throughout the class room. We’ve also started to practice to write the fist letters of our name. Emily did a wonderful job writing an “A” for Addie! She was so excited that she made an “A”. For math we’ve been working on counting in English and Spanish and number recognition. This week we talked about the 4th of July and what that day means. Elisabeth was very excited to tell us that it is America’s Birthday! We really enjoyed talking about fire works! Don’t forget we are going on a field trip Tuesday, July 6th, and we are closed on July 5th. Please be sure to sign up!
Hope everyone has a safe holiday weekend!
-Ms. Whitney

The Walrus Class

Hello Walrus Families!
 This week, the Walrus Class worked with animals in our “animal planet” theme. We learned about the zoo and the rain forest. We made our own patterns on colorful zebras and made tree frogs totally out of hearts! We even had a cooking project where we made “frogs on a log” using celery and peanut butter as the log and raisins as the frogs. It was fun to make, as well as delicious and nutritious! The highlight of our week was playing a game called “Going on a Jaguar Hunt” where we pretended to explore the jungle in search of jaguars. The children really enjoyed pretending to find a jaguar in a cave and running back to the explorer jeep for safety!
 A few reminders: bike day is every Tuesday and sprinkler day is everyday! Remember a swim suit and towel. Also, please put sunscreen on your child in the morning before coming to school. The sun is so strong this time of year and we don’t want any burns!
-Ms. Amanda and Ms. Stephanie

The Rooster Class

This week the Roosters happily welcome a new friend to our room, Caleb, he will surly make a great addition to our fun group! This week will we learning all about various animals; farm animals, zoo animals, safari animals, animals that live on land, animals that live in the water all different kinds of animals!  We plan to continue working on our letters and numbers with practice traceable letters, animal number cards used for working on order from one to ten, and more activities to help our little minds learn.  We have lots of fun crafts planed for the week including Old Macdonald farm animal masks, cotton ball sheep, cut out zebra figures, paper plate lions, a panda craft involving various circle shapes, and a cooking craft and snack.  Our cooking activity will be “eating like the birds eat” we will make dirt and pudding cup bowls with gummy worms in them, when we eat them the we will have our hands behind our backs and attempt to eat the worms with just our mouths like a bird would do, then we will use a spoon for the remaining treat.  We will continue to enjoy our summer fun with sprinkler days, bike day, and outside time, weather permitting.  We are looking forward to another week learning and having fun with our friends!
-Ms. Tracy

BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com

Crozet Newsletter
June 25th, 2010

Upcoming Events:

*Monday, July 5th, We are closed in observance of Fourth of July!
*Friday July 9th, USA Night themed Children’s Night Out!
*Wednesday, July 21st, Staff Appreciation Day
*Friday, July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii themed Children’s Night Out

Weekly Financial Memo:

July tuition is due. Pay by June 30th to avoid late fees.

Children’s Night Out is a great way to extend your hours on a Friday evening to go out for a nice quiet dinner, grocery shopping, etc….it’s not every Friday that you get three hours to get caught up on YOU! We provide yummy nutritious meals, take part in seasonal arts and crafts, and watch movies. The fee is $15.00 per child ($5.00 more for each sibling). Mark it on your calendars!
Laura Tomaine
Executive Director/CFO

School News and Notes:
We have had another wonderful week filled with fun! The children from our Forest Lakes Location came over on Friday and used our water park! They had a blast! Instead of Sprinkler Day on Friday, we had a field day! We played with water balloons, soccer balls, bubbles and so much more! We had a blast!! Thank you to all the parents who brought in special Popsicle treats! The children love them on these hot summer days!

Summer is a fun time to try new things! Here are some recipes that you can try with your child at home!

No-Cook Play Dough:
1 cup white flour
½ cup salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon alum
food coloring
½ cup water

Mix first four ingredients. Add food coloring to the water. Gradually add small amounts of water until mixture attains the consistency of bread dough. You may not use the entire ½ cup of water. You can make colors not commercially available, such as purple, by creatively mixing colors. Store in an airtight container or a plastic bag. It lasts a long time. (If you can’t find alum at the grocery store, look in the drugstore.)

Don’t forget about Bright Beginnings going GREEN!! We have just begun our recycling unit! We have tubs set up for paper and for plastic. Our children will be encouraged to recycle during the day- at snack, lunch, and after art projects! They are doing a great job recycling!

 We are fortunate to have time disposal pick up our trash. They have Van Der Linde Recycling go through their trash and recycle what they can.  We help them by sorting it for them and teach your children the importance of recycling!

We also are slowly changing our menu to be more organic. Check out our new menu, as it is displayed on our front bulletin board.

Class Notes:

The Pelican Class

The week started off with a lot of smiling faces. We enjoyed tickling the little babies all over to make them laugh. We sang a song “where are the babies”. The older ones would say Sage and Finn’s name. We made sounds like baa, ma and moo. They all watched and smiled. They enjoyed reaching for toy animals and trying to touch them. Rolling to music and tummy time wasn’t their favorite but shaking a rattle helped out. Have a great weekend.
-Ms. Sue

The Kangaroo Class

This week in gross motor/movement, we danced to music with scarves. We played in the ball pit. In the gross motor room, we enjoyed doing flips on the mat and crawling thru the tent. In fine motor, art and sensory, we made birthday cakes with playdough, played with small puzzles and made fireworks with a nice clean toilet brush. For sensory, we played fill and spill in the sandbox. We sorted color noodles. In practical living, we had a birthday party for our baby dolls and built them a house, too. We continue to work on our sign language. Have a great weekend.
-Ms. Jen

The Peacock Class
 Hello Peacock families and friends! This week our class had fun learning about and playing sports. We learned about several different types of sports, for example, football, soccer, basketball and baseball. During outside time, we were able to play kickball games. This week we also practiced our letters of the alphabet as well as our shapes. We are still working very hard on using our words instead of actions in our class. Thus far I have seen improvement, hopefully with working on it at school and working on it at home, we will be well on our way to using our words. We are having a great time being able to play in our water park. Congratulations to Willa for over coming her fear of the sprinkler! If you have not yet signed a sunscreen permission form, please do so in order for me to apply sunscreen in the afternoon. As always, if you have any questions, comments or concerns please feel free to stop by! Hope everyone had a great Father’s Day!
-Ms. Lee

The Bunny Class

Hello Bunny families! What a great week we’ve had officially welcoming summer! We’ve enjoyed being outside soaking up the warm weather. The Bunnies helped Bright Beginnings plant a jam garden. We planted strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. We’ve been helping to take care of our pizza garden by making sure it has plenty of water. For math this week, we did a lot of practicing with our counting. We are working really hard on counting to ten in English and we’ve done a great job counting in Spanish. During science time, we had so much fun conducting color experiments. Each day we would pick two different colors. We would guess what we thought it might turn into, mix the colors and watch. It was a lot of fun guessing and seeing who was right. For language arts this week, we continued to study birds. We read all about different types of stories that helped us discover what birds eat, where they live and so forth.  Lastly, for Children’s Humanities we wrapped up our unit on nursery rhymes. Studying these nursery rhymes has helped the Bunnies have great ears for rhyming words!

Reminders: Sprinkler Day is everyday, so please have your child dressed in bathing suit with sunscreen on! Bike Day is every Tuesday! Have a great weekend!
-Ms. Whitney

The Walrus Class

Hello Walrus Families!
This week the Walrus class was busy learning about and playing sports with our week’s theme, “Adventure Sports”.  We learned about baseball, basketball, football and soccer and tried out our passing, throwing and kicking skills! We made three- dimensional footballs and a collage soccer ball.  We especially enjoyed having a sports drink and a sports bar taste test—we loved Gatorade! Of course we spent a lot of time outside this week enjoying the playground, sprinklers and bike day.  Please remember to bring in your child’s bike and helmet Tuesdays and every day their swimsuits and towel!
Next week, we will be having a cooking project! We will be making “Frogs on a log”.  Please sign up on our door to bring supplies.  Your help is most appreciated! Our class will also be going to the Discovery Museum on July 6th! Please bring in the money for your child to come with us! Thank you! Have a great weekend!
-Ms. Amanda and Ms. Stephanie

The Rooster Class

The Rooster class officially welcomed summer this week! Our theme for the week is sports.  We continue to review letters and their sound.  The Roosters enjoyed making up a class story about sports. We worked hard with different shapes to create patterns.  We brainstormed different types of sports. We discussed how playing a sport can keep you healthy. We voted for your favorite sport and graphed the results.  The Roosters had fun with a sports matching game.  We laced a ball, made tissue paper footballs and sponge painted a soccer ball.  We observed a mother bird feeding her babies outside. We talked about the warmer weather and other signs of summer.  Have a great weekend!
-Ms. Tracy

BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com

Crozet Newsletter
June 18th, 2010

Upcoming Events:

*Friday, June 18th is the night of our Summer Solstice Goodnight Moon Party! From 6:00-8:00 p.m.! Come, and drop of your kids for a great time of movies in the backyard!!
*Monday, July 5th, We are closed in observance of Fourth of July!
*Friday July 9th, USA Night themed Children’s Night Out!
*Wednesday, July 21st, Staff Appreciation Day
*Friday, July 23rd, Aloha from Hawaii themed Children’s Night Out

Weekly Financial Memo:

Re-registration fees are due by August.  Pay now to ensure your child a spot!
Thank you for your referrals.  Several families will be receiving a free week and you can too!  Refer a family that enrolls and you will receive a free week after they have been enrolled here a month.
Laura Tomaine
Executive Director/CFO

School News and Notes:

This week was very eventful- It was the kick-off for our summer session! We had a toy and room swap with all of our classrooms and had everything set up for Monday! The children love their new rooms and all their new toys! It was a great surprise!

The Water Park was a HIT this week! The children loved running through all the sprinklers and squealed the whole time! Everyone did a wonderful job following directions and the rules of the water park! Little Liam was a little hesitant of the water and laughed along side of sprinklers! Amanda was so excited that she got her hair wet!! Lucy and the rest of the Rooster Class were so excited when they learned that they were able to hold their mouths open and water would land in them. This week has been a great week!

Bike Day was a lot of fun! The children learned about bike safety and why it is important to always wear a helmet! We only had 3 traffic jams, but everyone got back up and tried again! :) Please remember to label your child(ren)’s bike and helmet when you bring them on Tuesdays! We will have a special spot for each class’s bike to go! Please be sure to put your child’s bike and helmet in the proper place!

This weeks Children’s Night Out is Good Night Moon! It is a great opportunity for to go out for a couple hours alone and an even better opportunity for your children to socialize with other children in a less strict environment. We have great activities to celebrate the sun and the summer and good food planned for the evening! Please sign up for the event!!

Words from Ms. Stacey Torrence- Our Speech Pathologist:

Toddler’s:
We began by reading the noisy story “Sam Wants More” while focusing on sign language as well as repetitive phrases.  Next we read “Who Says Moo?” and focused on different animal sounds as well as feeling different textures throughout the book.  Another “Buddy Bear” book was read to focus on simple “what” questions.  The children had to follow along while following 1-step directions as well as answering basic “wh” questions.
2’s:
We also read “Becca Bunny” and “Buddy Bear” books.  I better have one in hand when I go into the classrooms, the children always ask for them!  We focused on simple categories, prepositions, and counting.  The children did a great job following along and following directions.  We also read a noisy story to focus on several speech sounds. 
3’s and 4’s:
  This week we continued to address phonemic awareness skills. We placed shaving cream all over the table to practice letters; letter sounds and began blending letters to make 3 letter words.  We focused on words with the vowel /a/ and /i/.  We made words such as “pat”, “sat”, “zip”, “dad’ and many, many more.  We sounded out each letter and blended them together to read the simple words.  They did a great job!  We also played a listening game to address auditory processing skills.  We made pretend pizza and had to following multi-step directions.

Stacy Torrence M.S. CCC-SLP

Class Notes:

The Pelican Class

Summer has begun for the Pelicans. This means lots of playing in water and bubble blowing. Finn and Sage like lying on the floor exercising with a mirror so they can see themselves. Swinging through the air makes them laugh everyday, while watching and having so much fun! Bang, bang, what sounds do babies hear?  We try to figure out where the sounds are coming from. We played peek-a-boo and rolled back and forth to the music. This week we enjoyed laughing with each other. Have a great weekend!
-Ms. Sue

The Kangaroo Class

This week in gross motor and movement, we played in the ball pit and sandbox. In fine motor, art and sensory, we made goldfish. We enjoyed painting with toilet paper rolls and gluing noodles. In sensory, we played in the water table with ice cubes and sprinkles. We have fun reading nursery rhymes. We enjoyed the warmth and sun on our playground. Have a great weekend!
-Ms. Jen

The Peacock Class

 Hello peacock families and friends. Fun, fun is what we’ve been having in our new classroom thus week. We hope everyone has transitioned well into our new location. Along with our new location we have begun water day! On Monday everyone seemed to love it. Even in they are just watching and not getting wet, As a whole our class is, also, beginning potty training, where we all visit the potty at least two times a day to sit and talk about what its like to be on the potty, just to get everyone comfortable with sitting on the potty!  In addition we have had fun making special pieces of art work for our daddy’s for fathers day, we have also been practicing our numbers 1-10 and the letters of the alphabet. Please remember to apply sunscreen in the morning and if I have permission I will be reapplying in the afternoon as well! If ever any questions, concerns, or comments please feel free to stop by.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!
-Ms. Lee

The Bunny Class

Hello summer! The Bunnies have has such a great week welcoming summer. Of course we have all had so much fun with our water park, and our bike day! I’d like to welcome a few new students from the walrus class, Riley, Lucas, Caitlin, and Riyana! This week the bunnies have been working hard on learning prepositions. We’ve discovered words like; above, under, beside, and inside. We loved using our “Mr. Bear” book to help us with this. We’ve also spent a lot of time this week discussing fathers. We talked about, who daddy is, what daddy does, and all the fun things we get to do with our Dads! For math this week we’ve been working on our color sorting. We use our sorting bears to help us with this!
 Please remember Sprinkler day is everyday. So, please come dressed in a bathing suit and towel with water shoes, and sunscreen on everyday. Bring dry cloths. (Labeled please) Tuesdays are bike day, so don’t forget your bike and helmet (both labeled). Have a great weekend. Happy Fathers Day!
-Ms. Whitney

The Walrus Class

      Welcome to the new walrus room! I am excited to have our rising kindergarteners and elementary children for the summer. As many of you know Ms. Amanda is currently going back to school at Mary Baldwin College. She will be with the walrus class in the mornings and Ms. Ann will be with then in the afternoons.
 This week we have been hard at work and having fun in our new classroom. We went on an “amazing race” to Egypt, china, and Mexico! We learned about Pharos, mummies, and decorated our very own class Sarcophoccs. We painted with chopsticks and made Chinese lanterns and Chinese doughnuts! Finally we made our own maracas and learned some new Spanish words.
 As a reminder, sprinkler day is every day this summer! Please bring your child to school dressed in his/her bathing suit.  Please send in a change of clothes for them to change into! Don’t forget your towel! Tuesday is bike day- Remember your bike and helmet! Finally, we will continue having show-and-tell on Fridays!
-Ms. Amanda

The Rooster Class

Welcome friends to the Rooster room! We are excited to be spending the summer with you. We will focus on adjusting to our new room this week. In language arts, we will enjoy reviewing our letters. We will practice writing our name. In math, we will focus on order, patterns and counting. Birds, birds, birds will be our theme for science. In social studies, we will talk about Dad’s. The Roosters will fun with our cooking project. Be sure to ask your child about what we made. In art, we painted with chopsticks and created number flowers. The sprinkler park is open and we will use it daily. Please send your child to school in his or her bathing suit. Don’t forget a towel and change of clothes. Every Tuesday is bike day. Please remember to bring your bike and helmet. Have a great weekend.
-Ms. Stephanie and Ms. Sherri 

BRIGHT BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL
Experienced Quality Child Care Since 1984
www.brightbeginningsva.com

Crozet Newsletter
June 11th, 2010

Upcoming Events:

*Friday, June 11th we are closed for Staff Training and Development!
*Monday, June 14th is our first day of the Summer Session!
*Friday, June 18th is the night of our Summer Solstice Goodnight Moon Party! From 6:00-8:00 p.m.! Come, and drop of your kids for a great time of movies in the backyard!!

Weekly Financial Memo:

Attention automatic credit card paying parents-Please let us know if you would like us to include payment for the re-registration fee on your next month’s tuition payment. Re-registration fees are due by August 1st.
Weekly and bi-weekly payments are due by the close of business on Mondays.  Late charges will be applied to accounts on Tuesday if payment is not received.
Laura Tomaine
Executive Director/CFO

School News and Notes:

Remember we are closed on June 11, 2010! We are going to have a great day of training and development for our staff!

Children’s Night Out!
We had to cancel our children’s Night Out because we did not have enough children signed up! Children’s Night Out is a great time for parents and friends to have a night out for dinner, get some shopping done, or just have a few hours to yourself. Children’s night out is so much fun for the kids!! They are able to get together with their friends in a less curriculum based environment and each night is planned to a theme!! This month was suppose to be Space Adventures and there are so many more fun filled nights ahead! Sign– up!!

Pre-K Graduation and Sundae Social:
We had a wonderful time at our Pre-K Graduation!! Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who made it and to all of those who were with us in sprit and couldn’t make it!
It was a blast! The Pre-K class put on a wonderful performance for the entire school, friends, and family.
We had a wonderful time eating ice cream sundaes and cake!! Thanks for a great day!

If anyone took pictures at the picnic we would love to have them to update our slideshow with all of our Graduates!!

Words from Ms. Stacey Torrence- Our Speech Pathologist:

Toddler’s and young 2’s:
We began by reading the noisy story “Sam Wants More” while focusing on sign language as well as repetitive phrases.  Next we read “Who Says Moo?” and focused on different animal sounds as well as feeling different textures throughout the book.  Another “Buddy Bear” book was read to focus on simple “what” questions.  The children had to follow along while following 1-step directions as well as answering basic “wh” questions.
Older 2’s:
We also read “Becca Bunny” and “Buddy Bear” books.  I better have one in hand when I go into the classrooms, the children always ask for them!  We focused on simple categories, prepositions, and counting.  The children did a great job following along and following directions.  We also read a noisy story to focus on several speech sounds. 
3’s and 4’s:
  This week we continued to address phonemic awareness skills. We placed shaving cream all over the table to practice letters; letter sounds and began blending letters to make 3 letter words.  We focused on words with the vowel /a/ and /i/.  We made words such as “pat”, “sat”, “zip”, “dad’ and many, many more.  We sounded out each letter and blended them together to read the simple words.  They did a great job!  We also played a listening game to address auditory processing skills.  We made pretend pizza and had to following multi-step directions.

Stacy Torrence M.S. CCC-SLP

Class Notes:

The Pelican Class

We started off the week making different sounds. We wanted to see if Finn and Sage would move their head towards the noise. The children enjoyed making different sounds to see if Finn and Sage would laugh. Ashlyn and Keaton had fun dancing and clapping to music. We rolled balls back and forth to see if we could catch them. They all enjoyed chasing the balls. We played reach for the ribbon. Everyone had a good time with this game. All of our friends are adjusting well! See you Monday!

Ms. Sue

The Kangaroo Class

This week in gross motor, music and movement, we played duck, duck goose. We practiced throwing and catching balls. We enjoyed pretending to be farm animals. We went on the playground bird watching and we tried to fly like a bird. We had fun jumping to music. In fine motor, art and sensory, we made cookie cutter art with pink and purple paint. We made hand print cards, glued feathers on a bird cut out and made a birds nest with yarn. In our sensory table, we played with feathers. For project green, we talked about brown bear, brown bear. We discussed about the color brown and what a brown bear likes to eat. For childrens humanities, we read nursery rhymes. The children loved it. Have a great weekend:)

Ms. Jen

The Peacock Class

Hello Peacock Families! This week in class we have been learning and practicing the letters of our names. We are working really hard to remember what the first letter of all our names start with! We also have been practicing and learning shapes this week with flashcards and our shape matching box! Fun, Fun, Fun talking about birds and the noises they make! We went on a nature hike to listen for any birds that were chirping! This week we also have had fun learning new nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, 3 Blind Mice, Yankee Doodle, and Rock-a-Bye-Baby. We are still working very hard in class on keeping our hands to ourselves and using our words when we want things instead of hitting or scratching each other. If ever you have any questions or concerns please feel free to stop in and chat!
Ms. Lee

The Bunny Class

Hello Bunny families! The Bunnies have been hard at work this week learning and discovering new things. For math, we practiced solving puzzles. We were also introduced to patterns and putting things in order. We will continue to work on patterns and ordering for the rest of the month. During science time this week, we continued our discovery of birds. We read bird stories and learned about many different types of birds. For social awareness this week, we discussed Fathers. We talked about who Daddy’s are and why they are so important. For children humanities, we continued reading and discussing nursery rhymes. For language arts, we worked really hard on picking out rhyming sounds in all the stories we read. It seems each week this keeps getting easier and easier. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! See you Monday!

Ms. Whitney

The Walrus Class

This week the Walrus class has been busy learning to write the letter “Y” along with brainstorming words that have the letter “Y” in them. Matthew did a perfect “Y” on the chalkboard. In math, we used our graphing skills to come up with the children’s names in our class that had “Y” in them. The children figured out that more kids didn’t have “Y” in their name. They were really good at this. We have talked about, read books about and discussed different sounds that birds make. We plan on making some bird feeders out of pinecones and hanging them on the tree near the playground. The Walrus class has also enjoyed milder temperatures this week while playing outside.

Ms. Ann

The Rooster Class

In language arts, we introduced a new letter of the week “Y”. We brainstormed words that begin with “Y”. We practiced writing “Y” in our journals. We reviewed our sight words by playing hangman. The children really enjoyed this game. For math, we graphed our favorite bird. The class thought of many different types. We continue to work with coins. The Roosters have fun playing shop, a great way for the children to learn the value of each coin. They are doing a great job. The Roosters are still working on telling time. We played a game of “what time is it?” In social studies/awareness this week, we discussed different types of birds. We voted on our favorite one. We enjoyed a game of duck, duck goose and the friendship circle. During the game we talked about what it means to be a good friend. For art, our class made memory roosters. Each child signed one an others rooster, a little something to remember our time together. We celebrated Dad’s this week by making Father’s Day cards and a special gift. Thank you for attending the Pre-K graduation on Wednesday. Most of all, thank you for sharing your children with us each day! We have enjoyed our time together. Have a wonderful weekend.

Ms. Amanda and Ms. Sherri