Week of January 22-24, 2013

Week of January 22-24, 2013

Theme: Pirates and Princesses

Letter of the Week: P

Show and Share January 24 Something that begins with letter P

Special Activities: January 23rd the morning class will be getting together with their third grade buddies for some play-doh fun and reading. January 24th Pirate and Princess day: Have your child wear or bring to school their favorite pirate or princess like costume to wear. We will be finishing all of our pirate and princess themed activities with a big treasure hunt. 

This week we concluded our exploration of animals. We practiced many skills such as sequencing, sorting, graphing and estimating. We also introduced the letter D and had a special letter D snack on Thursday.

Next week we will be exploring the letter P with our theme of Pirates and Princesses. We have many exciting activities planned. We are going to sort princesses and pirates. We will make a graph of the princess items we roll on the dice. We are going to follow the pirate path to get to the treasure (pre-writing strokes) and we are going to be looking for differences in pictures. We are also going to do some princess and pirate patterning. We will end the week with a Pirate and Princess day. You child may dress as their favorite pirate or princess for the day. On that day we are going to be following the clues to go on a treasure hunt to find the pirate booty. The sensory table will have pirate treasure buried in it that the children must find and dig up. One of the pirate books we are going to read is "Pirate Pete."

We have also begun a new literacy initiative at Hilton Elementary that includes the literacy framework of the Daily 5. This is a research based approach to reading and literacy. It was originally designed for the elementary grades K and up, however, we are beginning to take some of the concepts and ideas of the approach and apply them to preschool. Two sites that you can visit include: http://www.thedailycafe.com/  www.the2sisters.com/the_daily_5.html. This framework has then been adapted to meet the developmental needs of children who are 3-4 and then those who are 4, 5, and 6. For those children who are older we have been able to put different programming in place that meets their developmental needs and I have included that in a separate letter that will be going home this week.

I would also like to welcome a new friend to the p.m. class his name is Parker Anderson and we look forward to seeing him at school on Tuesday.
Special Readers this week are: Sarah Amick in the a.m. (8:30-8:50) and Wendi Glovna (12:00-12:20)

As I get responses back I will also be confirming and setting up conferences regarding report cards and the progress your child has been making.