Friday Newsletter
Friday, December 17, 2010
Santa’s little elves were busy learning about the letter E and practicing fine motor skills, all while making holiday gifts for friends and families. Their little fingers and hands were busy creating reindeer, stockings, ornaments and other crafts that will go unmentioned until Christmas day! We also enjoyed some time in the gym this week, to brush up on our basketball skills. Our little gingerbread man Gil has been very naughty this week. Every morning the children use the clue he leaves behind, to help find his hiding spot. So far, he hasn’t been able to stay in hiding very long. They always find him. The children even suggested we staple him to the board so he couldn’t get away but somehow naughty Gil managed to get loose. The children say he is magical!
We learned how to reuse, reduce and recycle! We all did our best tracing numbers 1-12, for the 12 days of Christmas. Some of the numbers are quite tricky but we never gave up! To let off some steam, we enjoyed freeze dance. We had to use our very best listening skills to hear that music turn off and freeze! They have gotten so good at this game and every one cheered for each other. After all, it’s all about having fun not winning! This week, we also enjoyed an environmental assembly, Super Survivor. We learned to reuse, reduce and recycle! It’s been a fun week. I hope you all enjoy the weekend and hope to see you on pajama day! Pajama day is Thursday, December 23rd. Bagels and juice will be served for the children and then we will all snuggle up with our favorite stuffed animal or blanket, to watch a holiday movie. Parents are welcomed to come snuggle at 10:15. For those of you that have older children at OCS, please remember that this is a half day.


Mrs. Gilberti

FRIDAY NEWSLETTER
Friday, December 10, 2010

A chill is in the air and the shopping malls are busy. The holidays are near! This week in preschool, we discussed all the different holidays celebrated in the month of December. We traced our hands in colors representing the different holidays, and together, created a holiday wreathe for our bulletin board. It looks beautiful!

Our letter of the week was G and what a coincident! G is the first letter in our new friend Gil’s name. Gil is our very naughty gingerbread man who likes to hide from us every morning! Together, we worked on our class Gingerbread Man book. We weren’t the authors but did a great job as illustrators. We loved the story so much and had fun retelling the story with our sequencing cards, which each one of us got to make and take home. We also worked on fine motor skills by decorating a foam cut out gingerbread man with holiday stickers and using yarn (icing) to lace him. Some of us had never tasted a gingerbread man so we had a taste test and then decided to draw a picture of our first bite! They were yummy! In math center, we used gingerbread men to make math sentences and in art center, we water painted holiday scenes! Our reindeer look precious. We traced our hands and a foot to make it and it looks too cute for words. We also continued to work on counting, letter recognition, sequencing, fine motor skills, and classifying! I think I can speak for everyone by saying that one of the most fun moments of the week was getting to go to the gym to play basketball. Thank you Mr. C!

As you see, we have been busy as usual learning while having fun! I hope that everyone enjoys there weekend and stays warm!

Mrs. Gilberti

Friday Newsletter
December 3, 2010

Big and small, short and tall, thin and fat, are all the ways we described our dinosaurs this week. We have been working so hard on letter recognition, and this week we added the letter D to our list of letters that we have learned. What a great letter to discuss, being that mid-week, we entered the month of December! As a class, we are counting down the days to the holiday and can’t wait to celebrate a few birthdays this month too!
We continued to work on fine motor skills. Tearing the tin foil for our tricerotop was a tough job, but it made our dinosaurs look so real. Our stegosaurus was fun to make too. Everyone got to paint their own hand and stamp it on their own dinosaur to make the back plates. We also made our own silly looking dinosaurs out of shapes. We had a lot of creativity oozing out of us, during this activity!
This week, some of us worked on sequencing, while others continued to work on patterns and letter formation. We are always on the go in preschool! A few of our peers brought in books to share. I would like to thank those who did and invite others to bring in their favorite book to share for next week. Please limit it to one book per child.
I hope that everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving Day! I thank you again for all the wipes and hand sanitizer donations for our room. Please congratulate your children for doing such an amazing job, and reaching their goal of 100 blue tickets (10 popcorns)! We will be celebrating with a popcorn party on Tuesday! Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

Newsletter
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Looking back on this year, I realized that I have a lot to be thankful for. Our preschoolers talked about what it means to be thankful, and by the look of our handprint turkeys, they all have a lot to be thankful for. This week, we practiced our fine motor skills while making all of our turkeys. The potato turkeys look adorable! In the past two weeks, we talked about table manners, Pilgrims, Indians, traditions and Thanksgiving Day foods, and so, I thought that sitting down to a Thanksgiving Day feast, as a class, would be a nice way to close up this unit.

I hope that everyone enjoys the holiday with friends, family and food! Thank you to all who sent in tissues, hand sanitizers, and wipes. Also, I want to thank everyone for their wonderful support thus far. We are having a fun time in preschool and every day is a new adventure. Once again, thank you!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!

Mrs. Gilberti

Friday Newsletter
Friday, November 19, 2010

This week in preschool we talked about Thanksgiving and why we celebrate it! We discussed Pilgrims and Indians and how life was for them. Who knew that they didn’t have a Walmart! We worked hard on our Pilgrims, Indian, and Mayflower stick puppets and enjoyed putting on a puppet show. We worked on the letters T and H and had fun learning how to correctly write the letters. Our turkeys look fantastic! We practiced our cutting skills, coloring and pasting and even got to use real feathers on them. We even talked about proper table manners. Mrs. Ruskan and I performed a little skit, with me being the piggy and she using her manners. Everyone did a great job correcting me and reminding me to use my manners. In our Math center, we enjoyed a Thanksgiving matching game and in the Art center we enjoyed making and counting turkeys out of play-do. Our drama center was a great place for someone to visit if they were sick. There were many Dr’s in the house! Mrs. Nemeth brought Art class to us and we all loved the Indian headdresses we made.

We were all so excited for Thursday’s assembly. We got to meet Jane Lavascio. She is the author of the Casey and Bella books that we have been reading in class. Next week, our focus will be on turkeys and the food we eat for the Thanksgiving celebration. We will also be enjoying some traditional Thanksgiving Day foods on Wednesday. Please remember that next week we will not have school Thursday and Friday! Also, our room is in need of hand sanitizers and antibacterial wipes to help keep down the spread of germs. It’s that season for runny noses! Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

FRIDAY NEWSLETTER
Friday, November 12, 2010


A chill is in the air and the smell of cinnamon all around us! This is my favorite season. We continued to talk about vegetables and healthy eating this week. We have been practicing our cutting, coloring, pasting and writing skills. We are getting close to the Thanksgiving holiday, so good food and fresh vegetables are on our minds. We all helped to make our large harvest basket and vegetables for our classroom bulletin board. We snipped paper for our carrots, used broccoli to paint our broccoli cut out, finger painted our kernels on our corn, glued pom poms for peas, colored radishes with markers and glued cotton balls on our cauliflower cut out. Our basket of vegetables looks great! We continued to work on tracing our names and reviewed letter sounds. We also worked on expressions of feeling! It was fun and silly to watch each other make, happy, sad and angry faces! We even had a bus evacuation drill this week and enjoyed an assembly on Tuesday!

This week, we enjoyed Fall BINGO in the math center and stamping in the art center. The listening center has been reopened and the children love hearing their favorite stories on CD and following along independently, in a book. They also enjoyed the doll house in the dramatic play center and pretending to pop the corn in the sand and water table.

Next week, we will be discussing Pilgrims and the Thanksgiving Day holiday! Picture retakes are on Monday. I hope you all enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

I hope that everyone had a great Halloween and showed some control with all that extra candy around the house! What a great way to introduce healthy foods and vegetables to our kids! This week we talked about farmers, harvesting fruits and vegetables, junk food and staying healthy. We worked on classifying foods into three groups: vegetables, fruits and junk food. We even had a taste test of vegetables. Everyone seemed to enjoy the sugar snap peas and carrots the best!

We learned about the letter V and that the word vegetable begins with a V. We used our best coloring skills and snipping skills to make our own basket of vegetables too! We all enjoyed our poem about Little Boy Blue, and then used our shapes to create our own Little Boy Blue in a hay stack! This week we did get a chance to go outside but everything had a beautiful frost over it. We took this opportunity to talk about how water changes when the temperature changes! There were lots of oooooohhhs and aaaaaaahhhs, especially when they realized how cold it was to the touch of a finger!

We had a short week but as you can see we kept very busy! It was a pleasure to meet with all of you during conferences! Please enjoy your four day weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti