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

Friday News
Friday, October 29, 2010

Giggles are heard all around. Pumpkins are found on the ground. It’s that time of year again, where little faces are glowing with smiles at the thought of candy in great big piles! Happy Halloween! To get us into the Halloween spirit we have been enjoying creating our room into our Halloween haven! We made handprint bats and creepy monsters! To help us practice our snipping skills, we snipped triangles in green, black, orange and yellow and pasted them into our monsters mouth! In our Math center we practiced making patterns with ghosts, bats and pumpkins. We also created our own Halloween themed cards in our Art center. The most fun of all was our Halloween BINGO with marshmallows! Thank you Mrs. Sandorff for making this game for us and donating it to our classroom!
This week was Red Ribbon Week. Everyone looked wonderful dressed their best on Wednesday! Thank you to all who sent in canned goods on Thursday! We had some big news this week! We earned another popcorn! Speaking of celebrating, our Halloween party was a lot of fun! We started it all off with a school wide pumpkin hunt! It’s been a week of preparation for the BIG DAY! Enjoy trick-or-treating on Sunday and be safe! Please remember that next week M/T/W are half days. Our preschool day will remain the same. We do not have school Thursday and Friday of next week! Enjoy your weekend! I hope to see many of you out trick-or-treating!

Mrs. Gilberti

FRIDAY NEWSLETTER
Friday, October 22, 2010

This week our preschool pumpkins discovered that if they mix yellow and red paint, they can create their own shade of orange! There were lots of ooohhs and ahhhhs heard coming from our room, while we worked on mixing paints with our hands, to make our pumpkins orange! That’s not the only way we made pumpkins. Since we have been talking about shapes, we used different cut out shapes to create a pumpkin. Our crescent shape made the most perfect smile, and the triangle worked best as a nose! With all this talk about pumpkins, I almost forgot to mention that Mrs. Gifford helped us all with putting our lips together to make the P sound in pumpkin! We even made our own pumpkin patch, using small and big pumpkin cut outs and a hulla hoop! We circled the hulla hoop and sang our pumpkin song, and when our name was called, we each got to pick our favorite sized pumpkin from the pumpkin patch! It was a fun way to learn about big and small and how our pumpkins were the same, yet different!

Speaking of circles, this week our question of the week was about circles. We discovered that circles are all around us. We all agreed that some of our favorite foods and snacks are shaped like circle, such as M&M’s, and pizza! Since the weather was nice, we did get to go outside and one day we went to play outside with our parachute and rainbow bean bags, and to our delight, we were joined by Mrs. Sakos’ kindergarten class! They helped us with our colors and shaking the rainbow out of the parachute! After working so hard on shapes, colors, counting, snipping, gluing, letters, writing and fine motor skills, we decided that yoga was a good way to regroup and unwind!

This week we celebrated Michael’s 5th birthday! Thanks Michael for the yummy treats! Next week, we will be celebrating again with a Halloween party! We hope you can join us at 10 am for some yummy treats! Thank you to all who continue to donate wipes, hand sanitizers and tissues to our room! We do appreciate it! Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

FRIDAY NEWSLETTER
Friday, October 15, 2010

I hope that everyone enjoyed their three day weekend! We all came back on Tuesday, ready to share how we spent our extra day off. Our friend Daniel brought in his pet hermit crab, Harry! Thank you Daniel for bringing him in and telling us a little about what Harry likes to eat and do all day! We also had another visitor this week, Julie. She is in 3rd grade. Julie helped us with a great Halloween pattern activity that she brought in to share! She was even so nice to read us a few of her own story books. We really enjoyed this.

This week, we introduced the letter S. We made a scarecrow and worked on identifying the letter S with a color by letter worksheet. We created an S with our bodies and even slithered back in from the playground, as we pretended to be a huge snake moving in the form of an S.

We introduced shapes this week and focused on squares. At our art center, we pasted different paper cut outs of shapes and let our creative juices run! Take a look at our shape creation board on our blog! To help us recognize a square better, we danced the Hockey Pokey using a red square, blue circle and green triangle instead of our body parts! This was a lot of fun and silly! We also created our black crows using circles and triangles! We did wonderful with the question of the week board! Next week, the question will be, “ Where did you see a circle?” Mrs. Nemeth did a fantastic job with the children making ghost wind socks at Art class. We always love all the amazing crafts she sets up for us! As usual, we were very busy learning, so it was nice to get some stretching in with yoga! Keep up the great work preschoolers!

Mrs. Gilberti