SJA-Pre-KINDERGARTEN

Dear Family and Friends,

Our letter of the week is Kk. Kennedy made us “Kiss Cookies,” and the children were very appreciative and excited about the chocolate kisses! Our main focus has been how to be kind to one another, God’s creations, animals, etc.

In religion, we have continued our discussion on God’s creations and how to take care those creations while out in nature. We have also made a list of things that we are thankful for and posted it up in our hallway for all to enjoy.

We read the super sized book titled, “The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body,” and the children went nuts over it.! After each page they got anxious to find out where Ms. Frizzle and her class were next in the human body. This week we have also been working on making our bodies, in action, on paper. We have added a brain, nose, spine, esophagus, windpipe, lungs, liver, heart, stomach, gall bladder, small intestine, large intestine, muscle, bone, blood vessels and nerves. We are hanging them throughout our classroom and the hallway. Stop by and take a look.

Did you know that we have 206 bones in our body and over 600 muscles?
Our discussion is about all aspects of good health and fitness. We need to eat well, exercise, wash our hands and stretch. Our weekly yoga poses have been very helpful for all of this and the children seem to be enjoying our classroom yoga studio a lot. We have such an enthusiastic group!

On Tuesday, Mrs. Powroznic was here for enrichment and read another super sized book titled, “Big News Straight from the Heart,” from the American Heart Association. The story was followed with a discussion about the different ways to take care of our hearts and a short movie clip.

Have you heard about “The Minute Challenge?” To keep our bodies healthy, students are participating in three activities, jumping jacks, toe touches, and ball bouncing. The students must first estimate how many of the above tasks they think they can do in one minute. We then count how many the student completes and compare his/her estimate to how many the student actually completed. It is amazing to see how many jumping jacks your children complete in one minute!

Thanks for visiting our blog and please be sure to come back often!

Peace,

Mrs. Stephanie Dinwiddie

Mrs. Young

Ms. Courtney

Ms. Brittaney