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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

February 22, 2012
Book Sale Ends Feb 22

Book Sale Ends Feb 22

February 22, 2012
PEP Book Drive

PEP Book Drive: Orders due February 22nd.

PEP Book Drive is well underway. ....

February 22, 2012
School Tour for Prospective Guardians

Please join us at 10am for a tour of our school. Our next enrollment period is for ....

February 23, 2012
Dynamic KidsFit
Dynamic KidsFit will join each class for some indoor fun.

February 24, 2012
School Tour for Prospective Guardians
Please join us at 10am for a tour of our school. Our next enrollment period is for Sum....

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SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Kindergarten 22nd Week Update

Our week started with plenty of LOVE! We talked about symmetry and made our symmetrical hearts to go on our "Winter Tree". We also worked on sorting and graphing sweethearts candy. As a reward, we ate the hearts right up! At the end of the day, we shared our cards and treats ...

PreK Robins 22nd Week Update

This week our PreK Robins have been working hard on learning The Hustle, and to show off how hard they've worked, we are going to boogie on down at our 70's disco party. They've listened to different 70's music, learned about the fashion of the time, made sparkl...

3s BumbleBees 22nd Week Update

The best thing that happened this week:*painted beautiful rainbows* counted cactii*dressed as cowboys and cowgirls*practiced yoga*Snowball dance*Pizza Pajama day This week was fashion week with cowboy attire, fancy dress, and pajamas. The children all had fun. They really enjoyed dressi...

Nursery 22nd Week Update

This week we have especially observed how much our friends have grown across all dimensions: physical, social, and emotional, as well as cognitively. They have gained such confidence and independence. We are so proud of our friends! We had a fabulous week. The week...

Zero the Hero Sends His Regards for 100 Days at School

Dear Zeroids!!! I hope this letter finds you – and finds you all still young! It´s me, Zero the Hero – and I´m writing you from 100 years in THE FUTURE!!! I had to follow to chase the pumpkin gang into the future, but I wanted to say HI on your 100th day of...

Kindergarten 21st Week Update

So far, one of our best weeks in kindergarten. The week started with plenty of music, from jazz to classical, and some Brazilian rhythms (after all it is Carnival time down there!!!). By the way, music is so powerful that some of our students have been singing a very cool Brazi...

PreK Robins 21st Week Update

On Monday, our PreK Robins enjoyed a fun session of indoor exercise with Dynamic Fit Kids. What a great way to start the week and thank you PEP for organizing these sessions. This week we discussed different types of musical instruments and the friends shared their favorite instrumen...

3s BumbleBees 21st Week Update

The Best thing that happen: * Maraca's out of water bottles * Kazoos out of toilet tissue tubes * Tambourines out of paper plates and bells * Shakers out of plastic eggs *Sand Blocks using juice boxes and sandpaper *Hand drums out of toilet tissue tubes and paper plates The Bumblebees really enjoy...

Nursery 21st Weekly Update

The instruments have sparked our friends imagination and musical performances. They have enjoyed playing the piano, ukulele, tambourines, xylophones, drums, and hand bells. They also enjoyed making their own instruments; they creatively made Jingle bracelets, kazoos, tambourines, and marac...

Kindergarten 20th Week Update

We began the month of February learning about some Famous Americans and their contributions to our society and the world. The kids showed a lot of interest in President Barack Obama, Rosa Parks and Arthur Ashe. On Thursday, after listening to our weather report by Sana, we also disco...

PreK Robins 20th Week Update

PreK Robins have been enjoying the beautiful spring-like weather this winter. This week was "Patriotic week" and our friends have learned some fun and interesting facts about the U.S.A. Favorite facts included: the bald eagle is the proud national bird symbol of the U.S.A,&nbs...

3s BumbleBees 20th Week Update

Best things of the week - "X" for X- ray. - Making Pan Pipes. - Making Guitars, and horns. - A musical parade. - Mr. Phillip and his keyboard. - February Birthdays!! This week the threes began a new month of school and a new theme for study - music, art and dance. The Bumblebees ...

Nursery 20th Weekly Update

We had a busy and fun week in Nursery class. We learned about patriotism and made a Statue of Liberty bookmark to celebrate. Our Nursery friends also started to recognize the beginning letter and sound of their classmates' name. We had a visit from Ms. Beth the lirbarian f...

Feb Class Calendars

February is here! We are getting ready for Groundhog Day on Thursday and 100th Day of School next Friday. Please click here for your child's class calendar. A paper copy was sent home with your child on Tuesday, Jan 31. If you have not received it, please let Ms. Annemarie know. Nurs...

Kindergarten 19th Week Update

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...

PreK Robins 19th Week Update

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...

3s BumbleBees 19th Week Update

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...

Nursery 19th Weekly Update

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...

Kindergarten 18th Week Update

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...

PreK Robins 18th Week Update

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...

3s BumbleBees 18th Week Update

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...

Nursery 18th Week Update

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...

Kindergarten 17th Week Update

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...

PreK Robins 17th Week Update

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...

3s BumbleBees 17th Week Update

Best Things of the Week - Poster Making. - A life sized igloo at circle time. - Making miniature igloos - Getting to know our numbers better. - Icees in class! This week the 3s BumbleBees spent time discovering arctic animals and their habitat. Where is the North and South Pole? Where...

Nursery 17th Week Update

This has been a fun and informative week. The friends enjoyed playing in the Arctic Tundra (snow box with arctic animals). They especially enjoyed Echo. Echo is a Snowy Owl puppet that flew in from the Arctic to tell us all about the animals that live in this region. Th...

Kindergarten 16th Week Update

Happy New Year! We all came back from our long vacation sharp and eager to learn! We started our week making our New Year´s resolutions. The kids set goals to their `´lives`´and I was surprised at their thoughtfulness. Let´s see if they can keep their promises!! This ...

PreK Robins 16th Week Update

Happy New Year!!!! The PreK class was excited to be back at school. Everyone was full of wonderful stories about their family gatherings over the holiday break. It has been a joy listening to them express themselves in details. They were excited about their new toy...

3s BumbleBees 16th Week Update

The BumbleBees are happy to be back in school. The week off has reminded us all how much our students have grown and matured. Animal month got off to a great start. The children loved the animal games and activities at circle time. They really enjoyed making skunk perfume. One friend...

Nursery 16th Week Update

Hope you all had a fabulous holiday. We were excited to come back to our wonderful school. We welcomed a few new friends to our class this week Xavier, Evan M , Kai, Charlotte, and Gabriel. Being off a week is always tough on our students, but w...

January 2012 Class Calendars

Happy New Year to everyone! Below please see class specific calendars for January. Paper copy is being sent home on Tues Jan 3rd. This month our theme is Animals and we are exploring the career of Veterinarians. Nursery January 2012 Calendar Bumblebees January 2012 Calendar PreK Janua...

Kindergarten 15th Week Update

What a fun week!! We dedicated it all to the Gingerbread Book Saga! We learned about the Gingerbread Baby, Boy , Man, Girl, the one that got lost at school you name it... The kids are working on creating their own endings for these well known stories. We created ...

PreK Robins 15th Week Update

The PreK class had a "time-terrific" week. We practiced telling time by the hour, and making our snowman clock. We also had two parent volunteers Shannon Gattens (Noah's mom) and Kimberly (Evan's mom) that helped us with our mitten crafts. These crafts corresponded to our readin...

3s BumbleBees 15th Week Update

Quote of the week (sung) - "And a parchy in a peary." Think " And a partridge in a pear tree." Best things of the week - Learning about Chanukah. - Reading "The Mittten" and making paper mittens and the creatures from the story. - Making and tasting blini with jam. - Creati...

Nursery 15th Week Update

This has been a busy week! The friends enjoyed singing in patterns during Circle Time (loud,soft,loud,soft). We read "The Mitten" and decorated our own pair of mittens. The friends enjoyed matching mittens with corresponding shapes (Circle,triangle,hexa...

Kindergarten 14th Week Update

The week started with the Pigeon and the Elephant saga! Those are two characters from our author of the month, Mo Willems. The kindergartners learned how to draw the pigeon, and they also created their own stories. We also brainstormed how to mak...

PreK Robins 14th Week Update

The weather was very brisk, but our PreK Robins were fired up with joy by participating in the weekly activities at hand. We're learning about our word family "at" and working on our two sight words "and & to." Whenever a teacher or a friend says any of those words...

3s BumbleBees 14th Week Update

Best things of the week. - Fun picture frames. - Q bookmarks. - Beading bracelets. - Story time. - Lovely Snowflakes. This week the three's enjoyed a wet to wonderfully cold week. Our December birthday friends were congratulated and joined in a December birthday party with the whole cl...

Nursery 14th Week Update

This has been a silly week. Author Mo Willems has written some very funny and silly books. The Pigeon Series was a big hit. The friendship between Gerald the Elephant and Piggie has sparked great connections for our friends to discuss friendship. The frien...

Kindergarten 13th Week Update

We started the week learning about the short vowels sounds. We have been practicing a new song that helps us memorize and understand how to decode some new words. Our friend S-T-R-E-C-H-Y the SNAKE is also helping us on this new task. As we started a new month, we are lear...