September 15, 2011

We had a great second week of school!

Announcements for this week:

• Picture day is Tuesday October 4th!
• Fall Fundraiser September 15-29 : Information was sent home in your child's backpack regarding our pizza sale fundraiser!  We are working with Stone Oven Pizzeria selling their real italian stone oven pizzas - they are delicious!  We are hoping that each family will be able to sell 15 pizzas to help us reach our goal.  If you sell 40 or more pizzas, you will be entered into our drawing for a $25 gift card to Wal-Mart/Sam's Club!  Estimated delivery for the pizzas are the week of October 13th - more details are on the fundraising form!

This weeks school activities:

We have a mailbox at our school - when the flag is up, we check inside the mailbox!!  Today we found an experiment with directions and we tried it!!  You can also try it at home!

• Magic touch bags:  In a large ziploc bag we combined: 5 Tbsp of cornstarch, 1/2 cup of water and a few drops of liquid watercolor and mixed it all together.  Now add 1/2 cup of oil, reseal the bag, and lay it flat on a tabletop for touch exploration!  Best to tape it to the table so it stays in one place!!!

Dora's clues in the classroom this week were: 1) yellow crayon, 2) yellow paper, 3) yellow marker.  When we opened up Dora's backpack we found that Dora had a book and a game about yellow!  Everyone got a yellow smile sticker!

Our art projects this week were marble painting and coffee filter painting!  Ask  your child how we did these paintings!

The children were dismissed from group to go to snack, each child had to: 1) match an animal to its' home, 2) roll a ball to a friend and say their name!

Stories the children listened to this week were: "This is My House", "There's No Place Like Home", and "Where Do You Sleep Lttle One?"

Songs we sang were: "Yes I Can", and "I'm growing up".  Song to try at home = "Yes I Can!"- (sung to the tune of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands")

• I can (nod my head) - Yes, I can! (repeat this line 2 more times)
• I can (nod my head) right now!
• repeat with (shrug my shoulders), (wave my hands), (wiggle my nose), (blink my eyes)

Be sure to check out the Friday class section to see what our pre-K students did on Friday!  See you next week!
Some photos below, check out the "photos" tab for additional pictures from this week and last!