Weather

I hope you all had a restful Spring Break!  We started our week off a little tired due to the time change.  Please make sure your child is getting a good amount of sleep and is ready to start each day with a smile.  This week we are learning about weather and when we can go outside and when we need to stay inside and play.  We watched a short video about rain and weather.

Bambi caught in the rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-FUcrQhTBY

We are now working on the concepts of location words “in, on, and under”  We had so much fun this week taking goldfish and putting them under our hand to hid them, on top of our hand and tried to balance the goldfish and then put it in our mouth.  It was so yummy and fun to practice!  We also tried doing this with our snack food too!  Ask your child to show you in, on, under with their snack at home and see if you can follow along.

This past week we had music and listened to some songs about Irish music and celebrating St. Patricks Day.   We then sang about water and Ms. Erin misted the air with a spray like rain and water falling down.  It was great fun.  We also learned to play the triangle and hold the instrument appropriately.

Please remember as our numbers increase to always always always label your child’s belongings.  We have had several students forget their jacket or lunch items.  If they are labeled this makes it so much easier for them to find their name.

As a reminder, ECS was challenged for each family to collect 25 box tops and send them in during the month of February.  If every student brought in just 25 box tops each, we would collect over 20,000 box tops in just one month, which would be more than $2,000 dollars.  We also encourage everyone to ask extended family to collect them as well.