A Peek at the Week
This week we talked about Families. We read “My Family, Your Family”, and “We Are All Alike, We Are All Different” this week. The children worked on books about their families, coloring each family member’s picture, telling us about that family member, and putting the pages together. These will be coming home today or early next week. Everyone completed his or her life-sized picture of himself or herself, and these will be hung up in the classroom on display.
Our class frogs arrived this week. These frogs were raised as eggs in our classroom last year, and went on summer break with a now Kindergarten student. There are three frogs, and have been appropriately named “small”, “medium”, and “large”. These frogs are fed live crickets, which the children can observe some days. We may be asking for parents to help with picking up crickets from the pet store for us. If interested, please let us know.
Many of the children brought in pictures of themselves as babies. The class had fun trying to guess who the baby was in each picture. We learned the sign language for the following words: family, mom, dad, brother, sister, grandma, and grandpa. Other vocabulary words included: aunt, uncle, and cousin. For centers this week, the dollhouse was a big hit. Other centers this week included: coloring family members, game: Candyland, shelf toys, dolls in the kitchen, and working on a book “about our class”. This book will be sent home with each child to share with his/her family.
Speech and Language:
The easiest way to reach me with any questions is: bowen-mishou@cromwellct.org
PT Group
With Renee this week the children practiced using beanbags, and balancing them. Renee would give an instruction, such as “put the bean bag on your back” and the children had to figure out how to bend their bodies, and walk from one end of the AP room to the other and then back.
Everyone enjoyed this activity while reviewing their body parts.
Thanks..
Thanks to Mrs. Polezonis for representing Pre-K at the PTO meeting Weds night. All parents are encouraged to attend. Thanks to Mrs. Beck and Mrs. Hall-Babbitt for volunteering for the room parents job this year. They will be contacting you as events in Pre-K come up.
Looking Ahead
September will be a month of learning about each other, our families, and our bodies. October topics will include: colors, shapes, farms, apples, and fall time. If you would like to volunteer in the classroom to help with a project involving one of the upcoming topics, please let us know.
Reminders:
Please send your child to school in sneakers every Wednesday for PT group. Also, we’ve had two “official” fire drills so far this year (not including the practice ones we did as a class). Some children have a difficult time walking quickly when wearing sandals, and a couple have fallen off. Please consider this when sending you child to school each day.
Do you prefer communicating by email?? If you would like to communicate with me via email, please send me your email address and I will add you to my address book.
Feel free to email me any time, I check it 2 or 3 times daily. If I don’t respond back to you in the same day, it probably means our email system is down, and you should call me instead.
Update: The Website is up and running. However, if you wish to view the pictures, you need to email me, and I will email you the link. You CANNOT reach the pictures by clicking on the link provided at the Website. To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
knagy@cromwellct.org
Have a great weekend!
Did you look at the back of this newsletter???
Interesting info on the back…
Friday, September 24, 2004
Friday, September 17, 2004
Afternoon Edition September 17, 2004
A Peek at the Week
This week at school we continued to get to know each other. We started each circle time with the same hello song. We also worked on telling people “My name is _____”. We will continue to do activities involving our names to get to know each other. We also learned about body parts, and what we use different body parts for.
For our project, each student glued on body parts on a paper, then colored the person to look like them. These are hanging up on our “shining stars” bulletin board in the classroom. Also, the teachers traced each child on a large piece of paper while they were lying on the paper. The children will color these life-sized people, and then they will be hanging in the classroom. Centers included: shelf toys, kitchen, blocks, a body parts memory/matching game, body part puzzles, and coloring. We practiced having a fire drill, and may have a “real” practice Friday morning. Be sure to ask your child about it today.
Vocabulary: head, arm, leg, shoulder, hands, fingers, legs, toes, belly/stomach, eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were some of the most commonly talked about body parts this week.
Speech and Language:
We started last week with the /l/ sound and this week we have been working on the /s/ sound. We call the /s/ sound “skinny air”. The children pretend that their teeth are a cage and they try to keep the snake (their tongue) behind the cage. Once all the children are able to produce the sound we practice using the sound in the beginning of words, then we use the /os, is, es/ combinations to rhyme with. The children have also begun to use sign language to say the alphabet. Our phonological awareness activities have been rapidly naming the alphabet letters and rhyming. Everyone appears to be enjoying this. Finally we started our “Matt and Molly” stories. Each week we will read a new story. The stories focus on answering yes/no questions, introducing new vocabulary, answering wh questions, and sequencing events. This week Matt went golfing. The easiest way to reach me with any questions is: bowen-mishou@cromwellct.org
PT Group
This week our PT group activity involved our body parts. The children used a balloon, which they bounced with their fingertips, then the palm of their hands, as well as their heads and knees. The group had a great time participating in the activity while learning about body parts.
Playtime is a great time to learn/review your child’s body parts with them.
Thanks..A big thanks for the quick response for tissues. We received many boxes of tissues, and have a good supply to last us for a while! Thanks so much!
Reminders:
Picture day went very well. Thank to for your quick response with the order forms and I apologize for the mix up. There will be a picture “make up” day in the next month or two for those of you interested in that opportunity.
Looking Ahead
September will be a month of learning about each other, our families, and our bodies. October topics will include: colors, shapes, farms, apples, and fall time. If you would like to volunteer in the classroom to help with a project involving one of the upcoming topics, please let us know.
Do you prefer communicating by email?? If you would like to communicate with me via email, please send me your email address and I will add you to my address book. This is a quick and easy way for me to give you updates about your child’s progress, or ask a quick question.
Feel free to email me any time, I check it 2 or 3 times daily. If I don’t respond back to you in the same day, it probably means our email system is down, and you should call me instead.
Update: The class Website is now linked to the ECS homepage, though it still has a few kinks to work out. I will begin posting pictures of those children for whom I have permission soon. To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
Did you look at the back of this newsletter???
We have included the words to our daily songs so that you can sing along with your child at home.
This week at school we continued to get to know each other. We started each circle time with the same hello song. We also worked on telling people “My name is _____”. We will continue to do activities involving our names to get to know each other. We also learned about body parts, and what we use different body parts for.
For our project, each student glued on body parts on a paper, then colored the person to look like them. These are hanging up on our “shining stars” bulletin board in the classroom. Also, the teachers traced each child on a large piece of paper while they were lying on the paper. The children will color these life-sized people, and then they will be hanging in the classroom. Centers included: shelf toys, kitchen, blocks, a body parts memory/matching game, body part puzzles, and coloring. We practiced having a fire drill, and may have a “real” practice Friday morning. Be sure to ask your child about it today.
Vocabulary: head, arm, leg, shoulder, hands, fingers, legs, toes, belly/stomach, eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were some of the most commonly talked about body parts this week.
Speech and Language:
We started last week with the /l/ sound and this week we have been working on the /s/ sound. We call the /s/ sound “skinny air”. The children pretend that their teeth are a cage and they try to keep the snake (their tongue) behind the cage. Once all the children are able to produce the sound we practice using the sound in the beginning of words, then we use the /os, is, es/ combinations to rhyme with. The children have also begun to use sign language to say the alphabet. Our phonological awareness activities have been rapidly naming the alphabet letters and rhyming. Everyone appears to be enjoying this. Finally we started our “Matt and Molly” stories. Each week we will read a new story. The stories focus on answering yes/no questions, introducing new vocabulary, answering wh questions, and sequencing events. This week Matt went golfing. The easiest way to reach me with any questions is: bowen-mishou@cromwellct.org
PT Group
This week our PT group activity involved our body parts. The children used a balloon, which they bounced with their fingertips, then the palm of their hands, as well as their heads and knees. The group had a great time participating in the activity while learning about body parts.
Playtime is a great time to learn/review your child’s body parts with them.
Thanks..A big thanks for the quick response for tissues. We received many boxes of tissues, and have a good supply to last us for a while! Thanks so much!
Reminders:
Picture day went very well. Thank to for your quick response with the order forms and I apologize for the mix up. There will be a picture “make up” day in the next month or two for those of you interested in that opportunity.
Looking Ahead
September will be a month of learning about each other, our families, and our bodies. October topics will include: colors, shapes, farms, apples, and fall time. If you would like to volunteer in the classroom to help with a project involving one of the upcoming topics, please let us know.
Do you prefer communicating by email?? If you would like to communicate with me via email, please send me your email address and I will add you to my address book. This is a quick and easy way for me to give you updates about your child’s progress, or ask a quick question.
Feel free to email me any time, I check it 2 or 3 times daily. If I don’t respond back to you in the same day, it probably means our email system is down, and you should call me instead.
Update: The class Website is now linked to the ECS homepage, though it still has a few kinks to work out. I will begin posting pictures of those children for whom I have permission soon. To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
Did you look at the back of this newsletter???
We have included the words to our daily songs so that you can sing along with your child at home.
Friday, September 10, 2004
Morning and Afternoon Classes September 10, 2004
A Peek at the Week
This week at school was a week of getting to know each other. We started each circle time with a hello song. Each child put their picture on a board one at a time, and we sang “hello ____, hello ____, hello ____, we’re glad you came to school”. We worked on making eye contact when saying hello to someone, and responding when someone says hello to you. We also worked on telling people “My name is _____”. We will continue to do activities involving our names to get to know each other. Each child was sent home with a photocopies page of each student’s picture…this is a great visual helper to facilitate language with your child. Ask them to show the child whom he/she played with each day.
Centers this week included: Legos, shelf toys, kitchen, coloring, dot painting, and drawing pictures of ourselves.
Speech and Language:
Mrs. Mishou will be writing in this newsletter about the activities she does each week with the children. Look here for important information about speech and language news.
PT Group
We had our first PT group with Renee on Wednesday. Thanks for remembering to send your child in sneakers on this day. The children had a fun (and sweaty) time practicing their skipping, galloping, hopping, bear walking, walking frontward and walking backwards, as well as running. Each week Renee will provide the children with many opportunities for movement and exercise. We look forward to a fun year of activities with Renee.
Thanks..
A big thanks for the quick response for tissues. We received many boxes of tissues, and have a good supply to last us for a while! Thanks so much!
Reminders:
The milk program will be starting next week…if you haven’t sent in your money and would like your child to participate, please send in the money on your child’s next school day (Monday or Wednesday). If we don’t receive anything, we will assume your child will be bringing a drink each day.
Looking Ahead
September will be a month of learning about each other, our families, and our bodies. We will be sending home classroom books throughout the year for your child to share with his/her family. This is a great opportunity to talk to your child about his/her experiences at school, and learn more about the classmates in your child’s class.
Do you prefer communicating by email?? If you would like to communicate with me via email, please send me your email address and I will add you to my address book. This is a quick and easy way for me to give you updates about your child’s progress, or ask a quick question.
Feel free to email me any time, I check it 2 or 3 times daily. If I don’t respond back to you in the same day, it probably means our email system is down, and you should call me instead.
Did you look at the back of this newsletter???
From time to time we will be including articles from various sources that we think may be of interest to you as parents. Please watch the back of this newsletter for that info. If you come across something that you would like us to include in the newsletter, please feel free to forward to our attention. We’d love to share the information with all of the parents.
Have a great weekend!
This week at school was a week of getting to know each other. We started each circle time with a hello song. Each child put their picture on a board one at a time, and we sang “hello ____, hello ____, hello ____, we’re glad you came to school”. We worked on making eye contact when saying hello to someone, and responding when someone says hello to you. We also worked on telling people “My name is _____”. We will continue to do activities involving our names to get to know each other. Each child was sent home with a photocopies page of each student’s picture…this is a great visual helper to facilitate language with your child. Ask them to show the child whom he/she played with each day.
Centers this week included: Legos, shelf toys, kitchen, coloring, dot painting, and drawing pictures of ourselves.
Speech and Language:
Mrs. Mishou will be writing in this newsletter about the activities she does each week with the children. Look here for important information about speech and language news.
PT Group
We had our first PT group with Renee on Wednesday. Thanks for remembering to send your child in sneakers on this day. The children had a fun (and sweaty) time practicing their skipping, galloping, hopping, bear walking, walking frontward and walking backwards, as well as running. Each week Renee will provide the children with many opportunities for movement and exercise. We look forward to a fun year of activities with Renee.
Thanks..
A big thanks for the quick response for tissues. We received many boxes of tissues, and have a good supply to last us for a while! Thanks so much!
Reminders:
The milk program will be starting next week…if you haven’t sent in your money and would like your child to participate, please send in the money on your child’s next school day (Monday or Wednesday). If we don’t receive anything, we will assume your child will be bringing a drink each day.
Looking Ahead
September will be a month of learning about each other, our families, and our bodies. We will be sending home classroom books throughout the year for your child to share with his/her family. This is a great opportunity to talk to your child about his/her experiences at school, and learn more about the classmates in your child’s class.
Do you prefer communicating by email?? If you would like to communicate with me via email, please send me your email address and I will add you to my address book. This is a quick and easy way for me to give you updates about your child’s progress, or ask a quick question.
Feel free to email me any time, I check it 2 or 3 times daily. If I don’t respond back to you in the same day, it probably means our email system is down, and you should call me instead.
Did you look at the back of this newsletter???
From time to time we will be including articles from various sources that we think may be of interest to you as parents. Please watch the back of this newsletter for that info. If you come across something that you would like us to include in the newsletter, please feel free to forward to our attention. We’d love to share the information with all of the parents.
Have a great weekend!
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Pre-K Weekly News
The first week of school went very well. Sam, Stephanie, Mark, Jack, Cameron and Jordan enjoyed singing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and the “ABC song” during our circle time. We also reviewed the Pledge of Allegiance sang “Yankee Doodle”.
During center time, the children had a choice of playing in the shelf toy area, which includes toy houses and people, bristle blocks for building, and waffle blocks, among other toys. Sam, Jack, Mark and Stephanie spent quite a bit of time at this center this week. Another center choice was coloring, which Cameron and Jordan particularly enjoyed. All of the children also played at the Lego center, as well as working on making their placemats for snack time, and finishing up their balloons for the birthday bulletin board.
Reminders:
§ Please be sure to fill out all paperwork sent home and return it as soon as possible.
§ We will be starting to offer milk on September 13. Please send in your money by Friday, September 10.
§ If your child wears diapers/pullups, please send in an ample supply to be kept at school.
PLEASE feel free to call/email with any questions or concerns. I will be touching base by phone with all parents within the next two weeks.
Have a great long weekend!
Mrs. Maruschock
Mrs. Camosci, and Mrs. Dumas
Phone: 632-4866 ext 1153
Email: knagy@cromwellct.org
Website address will be available within the next week or two.
During center time, the children had a choice of playing in the shelf toy area, which includes toy houses and people, bristle blocks for building, and waffle blocks, among other toys. Sam, Jack, Mark and Stephanie spent quite a bit of time at this center this week. Another center choice was coloring, which Cameron and Jordan particularly enjoyed. All of the children also played at the Lego center, as well as working on making their placemats for snack time, and finishing up their balloons for the birthday bulletin board.
Reminders:
§ Please be sure to fill out all paperwork sent home and return it as soon as possible.
§ We will be starting to offer milk on September 13. Please send in your money by Friday, September 10.
§ If your child wears diapers/pullups, please send in an ample supply to be kept at school.
PLEASE feel free to call/email with any questions or concerns. I will be touching base by phone with all parents within the next two weeks.
Have a great long weekend!
Mrs. Maruschock
Mrs. Camosci, and Mrs. Dumas
Phone: 632-4866 ext 1153
Email: knagy@cromwellct.org
Website address will be available within the next week or two.
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