Arts Night - April 11th

Arts Night – April 11^th

Arts Night will take place on Thursday, April 11^th. Arts Night is a school wide event that happens in the evening at 6pm. It will showcase Grade K – 6 artwork and will include a school wide musical performance. This year, The Afternoon Preschool class will be singing on stage with the Kindergarten class. Because this is an after school event, your preschool aged son or daughter has the option of participating. Students participating are often encouraged to arrive at 5:30pm.

Both Mrs. Reid and Miss Kate will be present before the show to help your son or daughter into place and help to guide them onto the stage while you enjoy the show as part of the audience. After the musical performance, students will return to their classrooms where you will need to pick them up and sign them out. This is important so that we know each child has left our classroom with the appropriate adult. I appreciate your help in refraining from taking your child directly from the gymnasium.

The A.M students will not be participating in the musical performance.

Last but not least, Mr. Hines (our music teacher and leader of this wonderful night) has requested that children participating in the performance try their best to wear bright, spring time colors.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

The afternoon class has been practicing their Spanish song during music class and I hope you are able to come enjoy their work!

Thank you,

Mrs. Reid  

March 18th - 22nd Short Week!

Hi everyone! This week felt like a fast one! We began our Spring unit this week (casually

  and yes, even though we had a huge snow storm!)

We started our week off with a fun little science experiment. The Preschool Scientist are wondering... WHAT makes a peep dissolve? We graphed our predictions onto some chart paper and this is what we think...

Water: Sage, Eloise
Juice: Jack, Sean K.
Vinegar: Charlotte, Faline
Soda: Sean H., Michael, Omar
Laundry Detergent: Tessa, Aurora, McClellan, Benjamin, Caleb, Sam

I thought that overnight we would have our answer, but I guess peeps are more indestructible than I thought! We have left them all week, and there's only a slight sign of ONE peep beginning to dissolve  The scientist will check back in on Monday when (hopefully) we'll have our answer! Not exactly "spring" oriented, but it's preschool after all and we need to have some fun!

We continued to work on our letter identification, number identification, and handwriting this week. The P.M class is really gearing up for Kindergarten. They have been taking responsibility for their own number packets by getting them from their baskets at the beginning of group time and putting them away in their baskets after we're done. Impressive!

I brought in a birds nest I found in my garage along with a three sided bird house (brought to you by the fine craftsmanship of Mr. Reid!). We began talking about birds. My hope is to mount this three sided bird house onto the window so we can get an up-close view of the bird(s) inside! We have started discussing what we already know about birds and what we would like to find out by watching.

We made some tulips as part of our art project on Thursday. We will hang our beautiful tulips along with some rain drops out in the hallway on our seasons bulletin board.

Looking forward to some spring time weather.

Mrs. Reid