A note from the teacher

The children visited the “grandma’s & grandpa’s” at Vencore last week and did a great job. We made cards to take to them, the residents really liked them and the children liked sharing them, we all took our smiles to share too.
We will be starting assessments this week, we make it a stress free as possible by playing games with the them to asses fine & gross motor. Pre-academics will also be assessed. The results will be discussed with you at conferences in November.

I thought it would be great if we could tie dye shirts purple, like our door, so that we could all wear them on field trips. If you would like your child to have a tie dyed shirt just bring one in by October 8th, that way we will have plenty of time to get them back before our Farm Field Trip.

I just want to remind you that I will be out of town Thursday & Friday of this week. I will be back next week on Tuesday. Teacher Sarah will be helping out in the morning and Teacher Donna will be there in the afternoon, they’re both great with children.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

We have been busy making new friends and want to reinforce our new friendships. We will be making a friendship mix. Each taking turns adding ingredients to our Friendship Mix. (Cereal, Pretzels, and a few M&M’s) We will be creating some art as friends; each child will create a painting with their friend, making two- one for each of them. We will also play “the shape of friend”, picking a shape from the pile and finding the friend with the matching shape. They will be “Shape buddies” all day, we will encourage them to sit by each other at snack and help each other & play with each other during the day. A great way to build friendships is to have play dates with other Sunshine kids. I will have a sign up sheet out for those of you who would like to be included in a Sunshine Class Directory.

A note from the teacher

I just want to thank you all for such a great start to the new school year, I am really excited about the group we have and look forward to building on a great beginning. If we haven’t received your child’s pictures we still need them. You probably wont get these pictures back so please send copies. We need one for their Bucket, one of your family, and one of your child doing something that they enjoy (like them on the beach or swimming). We would also really like pictures of your homes for our block area.
The bikes are out and ready to go. So if your child wants to ride them, they will need to bring a helmet to wear. You can just hang them up on the coat hooks outside our classroom. Please make sure that they have your child’s name written in them. Its really a good idea to label everything that comes to school with your child. It’s also a great idea to send extra clothes in case of accidents, you know what I mean J but also there are juice spills too. Also please send your child in play clothes or clothes that its ok to get messy in. We have a lot of fun projects that some times end up all over us, me included. We do wear paint shirt but sometimes that is just not enough to contain our fun!
To stop the spread of germs in our class, we ask that you please take your child to the bathroom and wash their hands before they come into class. We want to keep the sick count down as much as possible. If your child is sick please call the office and let them know what’s going on, we worry about you when your gone.

Speaking of being absent, I will be out of town on Thursday 9-25, Friday 9-26 and Monday 9-29. My son will be graduating from Navy boot camp on that Friday, so my family will be traveling to Chicago to see him. In the morning classes Teacher Sarah will be there to help Teacher Veronica and in the afternoon Teacher Marissa will be helping out. The children will have fun painting a Friendship painting together that week.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

We will be talking about our similarities and our differences this week. We will look at some
X-Rays and talking about our bodies. How they are the same and different, like some of us wear glasses and some of us are taller than others. We will do a “How are we alike?” comparison. In our preparation for visiting Vencore we will also be talking about different ages. I thought we should make cards for them. It will be fun for us and the residents love to get anything the children make.

A note from the teacher

We had a great first week ! I hope you were able to go on to our blog and find the pictures of the first week. I usually only upload them on Fridays for the whole week. Speaking of pictures, if we haven’t received your child’s pictures we still need them. You probably wont get these pictures back so please send copies. We need one for their Bucket, one of your family, and one of your child doing something that they enjoy (like them on the beach or swimming).
I am also sending home a book this week that you and your child can fill out and decorate together. It’s a book about your child & family that we would like to keep in the classroom. Children like to be able to look at the pictures and show their friends, they also love to see their families during the day.
Every month we take a trip across the street to visit the “grandmas & grandpa’s” at Vencore. The kids do such a great job bringing a smile to the people’s faces! They sing songs for them and then go around shaking hands and saying hello. We talk about this during class and we read a book about grandma’s & grandpa’s. The dates we are going this month are listed under Important Dates. We go at 10:15 am in the morning and the second date we also go at 1:45 in the afternoon. You are welcome to join us anytime you would like. We try to leave Little Acorn by 10:00 and 1:30 to get over there on time.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we are talking about ourselves, what we like to eat, the colors we like, and the activities we like to do. We’ll talk about our families and what makes us special. We will create some books about what we like that we will keep here in the class. We will also make a poster about what we like. As a class we will create some class guidelines to follow to make us all happy!! We will also talk about Living vs. Non-Living things because part of what makes us special is being alive!

First Week of School

We survived the first week of preschool!! I'm happy to say that we had very few tears and it was a great first week. We all worked on glueing and painting art work for our new bulletin board that will be up sometime next week.

We are working on getting pictures on all the buckets. Speaking of pictures, I have created a new album on Snapfish of the first week. Since the children had name tags on this week I wasn't able to use all the pictures I took this week. If your child isn't in the pictures, its because they were wearing a name tag and for safety reasons we won't connect names with faces.

We look forward to our next week together and remember if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for sharing your children with us.