September

  We made it through the first 3 weeks of school! And everyone has done great. Thank you to all the parents working the first few weeks it isn't always easy those first few weeks, but with all your hard work we made it. I have enjoyed getting to know your children and I hope to gain more knowledge as we go on.

  Now that we are all more comfortable at school we will be adding activities and things as we go along. We have started our Zoophonics program which is what we use at IPS to teach the letters and sounds for more information on the program you can check the company's web page and videos for all the sound and signal cues can be found on youtube! Each letter is lower case, and each one has an animal which is the card we use at this point in the year, and one signal which is the hand or body motions. These are fun to practice at home. Our first letter this week is a for Ally Alligator, next week we move on to Bubba Bear and his sound we will go through the whole alphabet daily and each week there will be a focus on one letter and character.

 We are also working on color recognition most of our class knows all their colors! So now we can find other objects in those colors! We will also start on some number games and counting. We are also learning new songs as we go along.

  Our topic is still all about me as we continue to get to know each other. We will also begin to pull a little focus towards apples as we get ready for our first field trip this month. September 18th and 19th we will be headed to Willowbrook  apple farm. The tour is short and very appropriate for preschool we even get to press cider! On field trip days families meet at the location, participate in the tour with their child and then when its done its your choice when to go. The school is closed on field trip days and there is no lunch bunch. More information will be in the Friday Blast very soon.

   In the Owl room we are working a lot on social/emotional skills of being in school. We are working on sharing, taking turns, and not hurting others with our words, hands or bodies. We are also working on remembering to go potty. So please help me by just giving your little ones a reminder here and there as to how we can get a long, and share. We are doing great with bathroom reminders and I think everyone is getting in the routine of using the bathroom at school.

   Parents when you help in class its a great time for you to see up close and personal how your child is learning. Please remember on your work days you need to be in class by 8:15am please don't come too early teachers are still preparing for the day and its hard with little ones here before we are ready. Please plan to stay on work days until 12:15 so that you can finish your jobs and things are all clean. You all are doing an awesome job with the cleaning and our room has been great!


   Please remember to check your emails for the Friday Blast and any other information coming from the office.