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Welcome to SOCDS
Thank you for your interest in our school. For the past four years I have been on a journey to create an environment that encourages learning, fosters independence, and demands personal responsibility for both our students and our staff. I am proud to say that we have made giant steps on this journey, and continue to move forward. One change we made this fall was the creation of our Morning Message. The entire school meets on the blacktop to greet each other, perform morning stretches, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and to sing Happy Birthday to the celebrants. Teachers have taken a leadership role in leading monthly school wide projects that include Johnny Appleseed Day, Exercise Day, America Recycles Day, and many more. Both Morning Message and these monthly school wide activities have helped us build a common experience and vocabulary amongst our students.
Annemarie Maini
Director
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
| February 2, 2012 Ground Hog Day Ground Hog Day |
| February 3, 2012 All Feb Birthdays All February Birthdays Celebration |
| February 5, 2012 Music & Movement Theme of Month: Music & Movement |
| February 8, 2012 100 Days of School School wide event: 100 Days of School |
| February 13, 2012 Morning Snack: F-K If your last name ends in F-K please send in snacks for 10-15 children for our new morning.... |
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SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Kindergarten 19th Week Update |
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The kindergarten week was filled with math. We started our unit on measurement and since then, we have been measuring everything in our room. We also used our measurement techniques to explore interesting animal facts and how they differ in size and weight. We compar...
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PreK Robins 19th Week Update |
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Happy Chinese New Year!!!! This week our PreK friends learned some fun and interesting facts about Chinese New Year and even enjoyed making their own Chinese lanterns and dragons.
Yoga on Monday with Ms. Dawn was awesome!! The kids thoroughly love having their own yoga mats...
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3s BumbleBees 19th Week Update |
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Best Things of the Week
- Arctic seal puppets. - Tasting Seaweed . - Creating Shells. - Our backyard fence. - Pegasus and The Unicorn. - A visit by Gorgamor the dragon. This week the 3s have been reviewing their favorite animals of the arctic, the jungle, the forrest, and the ones they...
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Nursery 19th Weekly Update |
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This has been a tremendous week! We began the week with a Yoga Class. The friends really enjoyed moving their bodies and Ms. Dawn was fabulous. One of their favorite activities was grabbing pom-poms with their toes and dropping them in buckets.
The class engaged in a few...
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Kindergarten 18th Week Update |
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Science, Science, Science!!! Kindergartners had a exciting week full of experiments and demonstrations. As we learned about Arctic animals, we concentrated our studies on Polar Bears. We showed how animals keep warm during the winter months. We experimented with really cold water as we used fur...
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PreK Robins 18th Week Update |
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PreK had a jungle fun filled week!!!!!
Skills we worked on this week:
Recognizing our friends name.
Placing numbers in sequential order (1-20).
Writing uppercase and lowercase letters.
Worked on demonstrating good sportsmanship using the games musical chairs and hot potato.
This w...
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3s BumbleBees 18th Week Update |
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Best things of the week
- Jungle Vines - Hanging Snakes - Jungle Birds - The Letters J & U - Learning to connect. This week was full of jungle fun. The 3s rooms were decorated with vines and balloons to simulate a rain-forest jungle canopy. The children played with jungle animal masks an...
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Nursery 18th Week Update |
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This week has been grrrreat! The friends really enjoyed learning about all the animals that live in the jungle. We shared many interesting facts about the animals and acted like our favorite jungle animal. Xavier pretended to be a elephant and swung his trunk (h...
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Kindergarten 17th Week Update |
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Another great week for kindergarten!
We started with so much fun going on a bear hunt. Reading Michael Rosen's book and doing a role play about it, gave the kids a lot of confidence. With the hunt, we learned about birds and the life cycle of frogs (we had a role play on that o...
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PreK Robins 17th Week Update |
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PreK Robins are doing a fantastic job!!!!!
This week we practiced and reviewed many skills that will help us get ready for Kindergarten.
Various art projects that helped us with our cutting skills.
Our writing skills are making great improvements.
Students did a great job remem...
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"Our kids are near the end of three fantastic years at South Orange Country Day School. After interviewing for the school that they will attend in September, we received the following feedback from the new school....."it is obvious that the teachers at South Orange Country Day have done a fabulous job with your children." We think that feedback says it all!"
SOCDS Parent