Announcements

Our Valentine's Day party is sheduled for Thursday, Februay 14 at 10:10 am (after our 9:50-10:10 PE class).  If your child does not attend school on Thursdays and would like to join us, please feel free to come at that time and share in the fun.  We will make a Valentine craft, enjoy a snack and hear a Valentine story before the "half day children" dismiss.   So that you can enjoy time with you preschooler and due the limited size of our classoom, I ask that you do not bring younger sibings to the party.  We hope you can join us!!!

The children may send in Valentine cards for their classmates on Wednesday, 2/13 or Thursday, 2/14 and we will help distribute them in their decorated bags.  To make things easier, please have your child sign his/her name on the cards and do not label each child's name on the outside of the card.  Thank you for your help with this. 

This month, we will be reading The Nightingale, a story by Hans Chrsian Andersen. The children will learn about the letters Ll, Mm and Nn and the color black.  They will learn to mark X's on their activity pages and they will also learn about left/right, first/next/last and the feelings of happy, angry, sad and surprised.  We will also continue to talk about the sequencing of events in a story and the beginning and ending sounds found in words.  The storybooks and activity pages will come home near the end of the month.

In math, we will focus on sequencing 3 and 4 items/events, we will work more with duplicating and extending patterns and we will learn about opposites (long/short, big/little, short/tall etc.).

The children will learn a song called "I Am Special", which teaches them that they are special  to God and he has a special "plan" for each one of them.  We will also focus on complimenting one another during this month of love and friendship.

We will learn about dental health during the beginning of this month and after February break, we will be studying the moon, sun, stars and planets in our solar system.  There will be many fun books, songs and activities for us to enjoy with these themes.

As you read over your child's report card next week, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  I am very proud of all the children!  They have been working hard and playing so nicely together and each one has "grown" in his/her own way this school year.  Thank you for all your continued support at home!