I hope that everyone enjoyed their three day weekend! This week it felt more like summer than spring! We continued to get our creative juices flowing and worked on crafts to create jellyfish, sea stars and sea horses. Did you know that a jellyfish is not a fish? We are really enjoying learning new facts about ocean creatures of all shapes and sizes. We really have been fine tuning our fine motor skills and continue to practice writing our names using lowercase letters. I can't believe that Kindergarten is just around the corner for all my friends in Pre-K.

We have been enjoying this great weather and playing outside. Please remember to apply sunscreen on your child before attending school and feel free to send in an extra bottle of water for your child. Next week, I will be sending out information about our Pre-K graduation celebration, so keep an eye out in your child's folder for the invite. Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

This week, we continued to learn about sea creatures. We learned that a whale is a mammal and is actually part of the dolphin family. The kids where so surprised to learn this. We also learned that fish, unlike mammals, breathe under water with gills. The kids also enjoyed exploring the sea creatures through the use of crafts. We made puffy paint sharks, paper snipped whales and paper plate fish. On Wednesday, our p.m. class was thrilled to watch their siblings practice for the Spring concert. We will continue to learn about sea creatures next week and also will continue to work on our ocean board. I hope that everyone enjoys their three day weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

This week in preschool we began our unit on MARE. We had soooooo much fun painting our ocean with our fingers! We were very impressed to learn that there are 24,000 different kinds of fish in the ocean. In the next few weeks, we will be learning about different sea creatures and creating our ocean board for ocean week. We have a lot going on next week. The Spring Scholastic Book Fair will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Our p.m. class will be attending the sale on Tuesday and our a.m. class will attend on Wednesday. Please have the children bring in their money, in an envelope with their name on it. Also, the book sale will be going on before and after our Spring concert, which will be on Wednesday, May 22. On Monday, May 20, every student will have their Spring photo taken. Families will have the opportunity to view the proofs before purchasing. No purchase is necessary if you do not like the proofs. Our weather has been really nice out and we have been getting the children out to play. Please remember that for safety reason, sandals are not permitted on the playground. I hope that you all enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

This week we were busy learning about butterflies and their life cycles. We learned about symmetry and enjoyed exploring this concept using paints and our butterfly paper templates. We folded over our butterflies and only painted one side.

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The kids loved when we had to bring the painted side and non painted side together to be rubbed. There was excitement to see what colors blended and how both sides were now symmetric. Since exploring colors was so much fun, we got creative with coffee filters. What I found commical was that the children had no idea what a coffee filter was. I guess everyone has a Keurig these days. We used our washable markers to color them in and enjoyed watching the colors blend when wet. We even got creative when recreating the butterfly lifecycle using pasta and paper! Overall, it's been a week of fun and exploration. I hope that everyone enjoys their weekend and that all of us Mommy's get some extra time to sleep!!!!

Mrs. Gilberti

What a gorgeous weekend! I hope that all my friends were out looking for insects and spiders because we spent the week learning about their differences. We enjoyed learning new facts about different types of insects and had fun crafting and working on our fine motor skills. This week we will be learning about the butterfly life cycle. Since the weather has been so nice out, we have been getting outside to play on the playground. It's such a great way for the children to practice social skills and gross motor skills. Please remember to apply sunscreen before they get to school and if you would like, send in an extra bottle of water. It gets hot out there while they are running around having fun.


Mrs. Gilberti