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

FRIDAY NEWSLETTER
Friday October 8, 2010


What a fantastic week! This week we worked on cutting skills, fine motor skills, listening skills, identifying numbers, writing, and letters. Phewy! We were working hard in preschool!

All of our centers were changed this week. The children always enjoy the change. We continued to practice our letter F sound. This is a tough one but we are doing our best! We even read Rainbow Fish and made our own little fish! Check out our photo on our blog! Mrs. Gifford helped us with the letter L this week too. We used leaf confetti and chalked lined L’s to help us create the letter L. They look so pretty! This week we also used puffy paints to help us make our squirrels. Speaking of squirrels, the sun finally came out and we went on a nature walk! We were scientists looking for leaves, tress, rocks, birds and squirrels! We then came in and made our own observation book! That’s right! We were authors and illustrators!! We even took all the beautiful fall colored leaves we collected and made a collage in the shape of an acorn. We all voted on this shape! Funny thing is, next week we will be introducing shapes!

Well, we will keep working hard on raising our hand and not calling out! Sometimes we just get too excited and can’t wait to answer the question! Have your children sing you our song about the months (to the tune of Frere Jacques)! They have been working so hard on this! The question of the week for next week is, “Where did you see the color black?”

Enjoy your weekend and don’t forget that Monday, October 11, is Columbus Day! We do not have school on this day!

Mrs. Gilberti

FRIDAY NEWSLETTER
Friday, October 1, 2010

Well, this week we enjoyed getting our hands messy with paint! We noticed all of the leaves changing colors and thought it would be a great idea to make our own leaves for our Autumn board! Our leaves look beautiful! We talked about seasons and even got to dress Freddy the Cat for Fall. Speaking of Fall, we worked on the letter F this week! I have been trying to trick the kids with letter jumbles and it just isn’t working.

Something wonderful happened this week! September has ended and we are now in October! Everyone knows that October is Michael’s birthday month because our month cupcakes are helping us learn not only the months but all of our friends birthdays! We have also been working on patterns with our Lego blocks! The children are doing great with their journals and some have even been working on entries at home and bringing them in! Great job preschoolers!

Please remember that all Scholastic on-line orders are due October 11, 2010. Also, the Question of the Week for next week is, “Where did you see the color brown?” Please enjoy your weekend and let’s hope for some sunshine!


Mrs. Gilberti