FRIDAY NEWLSETTER
Friday, March 18, 2011

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!!!! Our little leprechaun came and left us green donuts yesterday to enjoy! It was a great way to start our day. This week we continued to practice snipping skills! We used our snipping skills to snip colored paper and glue it in rainbow order. Our room looks so colorful. Speaking of colors, this week we learned about primary and secondary colors. We were scientists again and wanted to find out if it was true that if we mixed primary colors we could get secondary colors. We used our finger paints and found out that yes, it is true! We continued to practice our tracing skills and started to trace number words.

We had a really nice visit this week. Elvira Woodruff came to talk to us about being an author and an illustrator. It was really nice to see our preschoolers so interested in what she had to say and enjoy the assembly. Some of our preschoolers were so inspired that they came back to the room and wrote their own story. Being that we journal almost once a week, when asked by Elvira if anyone kept a journal, 10 little hands with great big smiles went up into the air! It was a proud moment for all of us!

Being that the sun has finally come out, we have been enjoying the “lamb” days by spending some time outside on the black top. Hopefully the playground will dry up and we will get to play on it soon. We are still charting lion and lamb days and it’s been very exciting for us to start seeing more yellow boxes than green. On our lion days, we have been playing Limbo and making our bodies shorter and longer as the Limbo bar moves. In art class this week, Mrs. Nemeth helped us make clowns. As usual, it has been a busy yet fun week. Next week, we all get to enjoy another assembly. It will be the Picarello Science, “Bugs of Blackwood.” It should be a lot of fun!

I wanted to thank Mrs. Sandorff for making us the St. Patrick’s Day BINGO! We used in a center and enjoyed playing it together as a whole group activity. Thank you to all who continue to send in items for our Tricky Tray basket! The weekend weather is supposed to be really nice so please get out and enjoy the “lamb” days!!

Mrs. Gilberti