Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Friday, November 20, 2009

Friday November 20th 2009

Friday News
Friday, November 20th 2009

This week we finished our unit on Fall Harvest. All of our fantastic vegetable projects are displayed in our room. I will send them home next week before Thanksgiving break. We started talking about turkeys and created our story board for the “Five Little Turkeys.” We practiced and traced letters “F” and “P.” We worked more on fine motor skills by tracing shapes to make a Native American Teepee, and we continue to practice coloring inside the lines of shapes each morning for a few minutes before announcements.

Since the weather was nice, we got outside to the playground 2 days this week. The kids really enjoyed it! We also had one “surprise” fire drill, and the kids did an excellent job remembering what to do!

Just last week I mentioned we had two substitute classroom aides- this week things have changed, and from now on, Mrs. Gilberti and I will be in the classroom. Mrs. Gifford joins us about an hour each morning. I know some parents had questions, and just wanted to make sure I gave you the latest information. The kids have adjusted well to meeting new people and remembering new names. If there are any changes, I will be sure to let you know.

We have just three days of school next week. Although the school follows an Early Dismissal schedule next Wednesday, it does not affect our preschool day. School next Wednesday is still from 8:30-11. There will not be a Friday newsletter next week.

I hope everyone has a safe, happy, and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!See you on Monday, November 30th to begin a unit on Winter Holidays- it’s coming so fast!

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Remaly

Friday, November 13, 2009

November 13th, 2009


Friday News
Friday, November 13th 2009

This week in preschool, we began a theme of “Fall Harvest.” We talked about vegetables and made pictures of broccoli, carrots, potatoes, and corn that we have displayed in our classroom in a basket. We talked about how the fall is a great time for gathering vegetables to bring to Thanksgiving dinner. We have enjoyed some silly stories about turkeys in preparation for the upcoming holiday.

We traced letter “F” this week, and worked more on the sounds of the letters in our names, the syllables in our name, and rhyming words.

Next week, we will focus more on turkeys as we use projects to target numeral recognition, counting, color words, and fine motor skills.

We welcome Mrs. Angela Gilberti as our student teacher! Mrs. Gilberti will be with us until Christmas break! She will begin to plan for and teach some of the parts of our day in the weeks ahead.

Because Mrs. Ruskan is needed somewhere else in our building, we have been spending our time with some new classroom aides- Mrs. Laura Smorto and Mrs. Jessie Guia. You may be seeing one of the two of them outside in the mornings. We are thankful to have such great people in our classroom each day.

Next week, we will introduce a theme of “turkeys” in preparation for Thanksgiving. Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Remaly

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

November 4th 2009


“Friday” News
Wednesday, November 4th 2009

We had a short week this week. We finished tracing and writing capital and lowercase letter “H.” We started recognition of letter “P.” We will begin next week with a unit on Fall Harvest in preparation for Thanksgiving. We will talk about fruits and vegetables and target the letters “F” and “V.”

Because the weather has been chilly this week, we practiced some gross motor skills by having scooter races in the hallway. The kids really loved this, and we hope to get them out again soon.

It was so nice to get to see and talk to everyone at Parent-Teacher Conferences. I know I expressed this to everyone, but want to say again how extremely proud I am of how tremendous our preschoolers are doing. I know that’s a combined effort from home and school. Keep up all of the great things you are doing at home!

Please remember to return your signed report card envelope so that we can reuse them for next report card!

Have a great, long weekend!

Mrs. Remaly