Pets we have at home

This week we are talking about pets in school including dogs, cats, kittens, fish, bunnies, etc.  These are all pets that we can keep at home.  Ask your child can you have an elephant for a pet?  No.  Can you have a dog as a pet in your house? Yes.  We had great fun sharing animals and taking them on a short walk around the school.  Our “Pet Parade” was another success!  The students love showing off their favorite stuffed animals to all their friends.

This is our last week to discuss Big and Little; Long and Short; and Tall and Small.  Ask your child to discuss these concepts at home.  These concepts are important in understanding math and learning that length, width and height help us in measuring things around the house.  You can look at the windows in your house and describe them as little and the door in your house is big.  You can also describe this using cups, plates, bowls and flatware in the kitchen while cooking dinner!

We had Ms. Jenkins read us a story in library about different instruments!  It was neat to get to learn all the sounds the violin, piano, drums, guitar, and xylophone make and hear them being played.  We have a book fair coming up soon!  Please plan to participate.  Flyers were sent home with details and information regarding the cost of items that will be seen at the book fair.  This is a great way to start reading over the summer with your little ones.

SAVE THE DATE!

ECS Spring Book Fair- Friday, April 21. 2017- Friday, APRIL 28, 2017- 8AM-3PM

Open Until 7pm on Tuesday, April 25^th.

Visit our Online Book Fair page- http://www.scholastic.com/bf/earlychildhoodschool2

BOOK FAIR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED- SIGN UP AT http://bit.ly/2nZCTZO

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

Animals in Spring

We started off spring really quiet; I hope everyone was able to get a little rest with all the storms this past weekend.  We just finished our first week of animals in spring!  Next week we will be talking about pets.  Please remember to send your child to school with their favorite animal to share with the class. 

We are now in our second round of discussing Big and Little; Long and Short; and Tall and Small.  Ask your child to discuss these concepts at home.  Mommy has big shoes, I have little shoes.  Daddy is tall and I am small, I can make a long snake out of play dough and a short snake.

We had Ms. Erin come and sing some songs about animals in music this week.  We also got to try out a new instrument a drum with drum sticks!  It was loud to hear everyone play the drum, but great fun to see who could follow the beat of the music.

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.  

Spring!!!

We have finished our weather and spring unit!  We are now moving on to learning all about animals.  All the spring animals are babies so we are starting to learn about animals now that we know in spring we see new flowers, leaves and insects start to buzz around.

We are now finished working on the concepts of in, on and under.  Ask your child to show you in, on, under with an object or their snack at home and see if you can follow along.  They did great proving they understand the concept and showing off where to place their objects.

We also went to the library and read a story with Ms. Jenkins about a fish that would not share.  The fish did end up sharing at the end of the story, what a great way to show we can all share something. 

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.  

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.  

Dr. Seuss counting 10 Apples

This week we spent talking about the famous Dr. Seuss and reading some of the wonderful stories.  It is always fun to read Dr. Seuss as the books are very repetitive and the repetition is easy language for our little ones to grasp and talk about over and over.  We read 10 Apples Up on Top; One Fish, Two Fish; and Cat in the Hat.  The students loved counting the apples and counting the fish.  We watched a short video and counted all the apples. 

10 Apples Up On Top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-5s02AsUU&list=RDOB-5s02AsUU

We ended our counting in math by practicing counting by rote and 1:1 correspondence (touch and count) through fun large group activities and reinforcing math tubs. We have been counting 10 apples up on top of our heads to go with the Dr. Seuss book. 

This past week we in library we listened to a story about Dr. Suess and the many changes he wanted to make about him but decided in the end he was fine just the he is red and white.

Hope everyone has a restful and fun spring break!  Please remember to move your clocks forward on March 12^th one hour, as this is the weekend to “Spring Forward” one hour!

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.  

Transportation - Ambulances and Airplanes

I hope everyone had a nice, long weekend. It was a very short week, but packed with fun!

We are continuing to learn about transportation!  This is one of the students favorite units!  Our interactive reading book for the week was All Around the Busy Town?  They all love that the books provide interactive pictures that match to pictures in the book, encouraging attention and participation.  We watched a short video and tried to identify all the sounds we hear with vehicles.  See you can identify all the transportation sounds with your child.

Transportation Sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X0pp9MF68s

We are still continuing to count in math by practicing counting by rote and 1:1 correspondence (touch and count) through fun large group activities and reinforcing math tubs. We have been counting and jumping when we roll a large dice.  It has been such a fun week listening to everyone jump and count at the same time. 

This past week we in music Ms. Erin taught us how to share and take turns with our music instruments.  We had to follow directions and take turns sharing all the neat toys.  We played maracas, claterpillars, egg shakers, rain sticks and cabasas!  It was loud and fun.

A huge thank you to all the support for the food donations sent in to help support or local charities.  We thank you for your generosity! 

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.  

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!!!

This past week we had our Valentine’s Day party!!!  It was great fun to see everyone and watch our friends taking turns, sharing, remembering everyone’s names and saying please and thank you!!!  What a wonderful job you do of promoting language and encouraging your little ones to talk and express what they want at home!!  Thank you so much for all the presents!  Ms. Donelle and I loved all the gifts!!!

We read the story “Where does the car go?” about different transportation vehicles and where do they go.  The truck goes on the road.  The helicopter goes in the sky.  This was a great activity to work on prepositional phrases using the words in and on to describe where the vehicle was and to promote more language.  You could do the same at home.  Where does the cup go?  In the sink.  Where does the fork go?  In the drawer.  This is a great way to use more descriptive words and increase language.     We also watched a video about trucks and cars and the sounds that they make on the road.

We All Go Traveling By….https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=we+all+go+traveling+by

We are working on counting in math.  My goodness so many of our friends can already count to 5!!!  That is so amazing and wonderful to see how high they can count.  Please encourage counting at home, by counting toys, socks, toothbrushes, cans of soup, etc.  Anything to help them increase counting is wonderful! 

We also went to the library and listened to Ms. Jenkins tell a story about painting!  Titled “I ain’t Gonna Paint No More!” about a little boy that paints the house all sorts of colors and then paints his body!  The link to the video the students watched is below.  We will do this as a class project at the end of the year, weather permitting.  It is so fun to paint one another!!

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!  https://vimeo.com/67950933

Our school 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.