Welcome to the SJA eSchool: PreKindergarten

Mrs. Stephanie Dinwiddie sdinwiddie@sjoa.org

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Thursday New Blog--Short Week!

Dear Family and Friends,

*Reminders:
Friday, September 11 - NO SCHOOL
September 30th - 1pm Dismissal
Tuesday, September 15th Please send in your child's favorite cereal in a sandwich zip lock baggie *More info. *SEE BELOW*

We began our week feeling refreshed from Labor Day weekend. Children excitedly shared ways their families spent time together over the weekend. From out of town adventures to Michigan and other destinations to playing outside or at the Children's Museum were some of the comments they shared.

They enjoyed Music class on Tuesday morning, as always! They had the opportunity to sing along and practice their listening skills while they repeated different verses of songs.

This week we have been practicing the letter of the week, which is the capitol and lowercase letter Dd. The children love when they get the opportunity to read and create their own little books. I hope that they have shared them with you at home! This weeks book was the Dinosaur book.

We introduced free dancing time to the children late last week and they absolutely love this. I have great pictures to post from when they were dancing freely around our classroom. I apologize for not posting pictures yet, I am still waiting on the cord to connect my camera to the computer.

In Math we are practicing our shapes, as well as alike and different. We have also been practicing our colors and writing our numbers.

On Wednesday, Mrs. Powroznik was with us for enrichment. She read a story about lions to our class and we continued our discussion on living things and all of the different habitats that they live in. The children then got to draw a picture of their habitat/home. These pictures are posted in the hallway outside of our classroom!

Next week brings our first visit to the library right after lunch on Friday. Our librarian will read a book to our class in which relates to our weekly themes(Living Things, Safety and Community Helpers). The children will then have the opportunity to explore the library and look through books. Eventually, we will allow them to check books out, but for now I am going to use that privilege as one of our "Bucket" surprises. So, your child may come home excited to share their book with you for the evening or maybe even the weekend! Please be sure to remind your child to put the book back into their backpack after reading it to them.

On Tuesday we plan on making friendship cereal. Please send a cup of your child's favorite cereal to school. We will blend all the flavors together for a delicious snack.

Have a weekend of peace,

Mrs. Stephanie Dinwiddie, Ms. Courtney, and Mrs. Young

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