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GOOD SHEPHERD NURSERY SCHOOL
March 2011 Newsletter
March 31
April 4, 5
April 18-21
April 22
April 25, 26 |
Flowering Bulb orders due
No School – Parent-Teacher Conferences
NO SCHOOL – Spring Vacation
NO SCHOOL – Good Friday
Spring Sing-Along 9:30 a.m.
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The crocuses are blooming, the daffodils advance by inches daily, the goldfinches and robins have
returned, the chipmunks are awake, and the signs of spring are here at last! After so many months of
white, the return of green reminds us that God’s promise of spring is just around the corner.
It was a delight to see many of you at our 24th annual Family Night! We enjoyed visiting with those who
were able to come and catching up with some of our former students. We hope you enjoyed
yourselves as much as we did and thank you for making this such a fun event! Attendance was down
a little from previous years, and we hope you will provide us with some feedback on the evening.
Progress reports are coming home this week. Please note that these reports are not “grade cards”!
Every child is unique and develops at a different rate and in a different way. Our goal is to foster self-confidence
and a love for learning as each child progresses in many different ways. We want to
share with you how far your child has come, not how far there is yet to go – after all, your child will be
in school for at least another thirteen years! Parent-teacher conferences will take place on April 4 and
5; teachers will be available to watch your children while you meet with your child’s head teacher.
The conferences will be twenty minutes in length; if you feel that more time is needed, we will be
happy to accommodate you.
Our spring fundraiser is underway! These flowering bulbs are an easy sell and produce lovely blooms
to be enjoyed through the summer. I hope you will be able to participate in order to help us replace
some of our aging equipment.
Mark your calendars for our annual Sing-Along! This event is a lot of fun for all, as the children sing
many of their favorite songs for you. Bring your camera! This year, the event will take place at the
beginning of the children’s day. Following the sing-along, they will return to the classrooms to
complete their school day. We are hoping this makes it easier for the children, who often “worry”
about when their parents will be arriving.
I have a hooded sweatshirt (turquoise with some painted flowers) that seems to have lost its owner. A
lovely pink beaded stretchy bracelet is also in the same predicament. We’d love to send them back
to their owners!
Wishing you a blessed Easter!
--Miss Cathy
Every day, all day, wherever they are,
preschool children are exposed to math and
learn about numbers, shapes, measuring,
patterns, and graphing. A quick trip to the
grocery store or post office offers all kinds of
concrete ways to think about math. Children
begin to learn about numbers by handling
concrete objects, cutting these real things into
all sorts of relationships, and comparing
quantities. With experience, preschoolers learn
to count and identify numerals by name; they
understand that the number “3” stands for
three objects.
Math is an integral part of any preschooler’s
day and can be found in every center of the
school. Sorting and matching blocks at cleanup
time is a natural process that children
engage in. Clapping the beats in a child’s
name at circle time, singing a counting song
like “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed,”
graphing children’s height, consulting a recipe
for the number of ingredients in it and bead
stringing are just a small sample of the math
concepts to which children are exposed. They
learn about numbers by working with
manipulatives such as blocks, balls, dice,
beads, cars, and buttons.
The math center itself offers a planned activity
each day that is specifically designed to help
children explore a math concept or concepts
as they interact with materials and each other.
One-to-one correspondence, counting, sorting,
matching, patterns, and more are learned and
new knowledge constructed as children are
actively involved in the process of discovery
through play.
LEARNING CENTERS THIS MONTH |
Craft:
Painting with eye droppers
“Senses” collage
Drawing “When I Grow Up”
“Stained glass” crosses
Windsocks
Science:
Snow melting
Kaleidoscopes
Air power
Tornado bottles
Math:
Number matching pairs
Colorama shape and color game
Mix and match donuts
Sensory Table:
Moon sand
Water with colored ice cubes
Sand |
Easels:
Painting with koosh balls
Scented markers
Foam brushes on paper flags
Animal markers
Blue and pink pastel tempera
Oil pastels
Playdough:
Blue
Lavender
Peach
Writing:
What’s That Sound?
Sign Language cards
The “Write” stuff
Paper hats with markers and feathers
Dramatic Playroom:
Housekeeping
Castle!
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Razzama Tazzama. I Am a Pizza, Jambo, Hand
in Hand, Sing for Joy
After running around in the gross motor room—
Child: I’m sweating like a sinner in church!
Looking through a kaleidoscope—
Child: Miss Christine! I see a lot of yous!
Talking about colors at the ancient age of 4 –
Child: I like blue and white. When I was LITTLE,
I liked orange.
Child: If we go to school, we go to
McDonalds. If we don’t go to school, we eat
pasta!
Miss Cathy: I went somewhere far away on
vacation.
Child: Oh. You mean downstairs?
Child: Did God paint the leaves?
Mom: Yes, He did.
Lily: Wow. He’s good!
Miss Cathy: I wonder what happened to all
that snow.
Child: It turned into water.
Miss Cathy: But I don’t see any water.
Child: It goes in the ground so those green
pokey things can turn into flowers!
Waiting for mom—
Child: She’s taking too long!
Miss Cathy: She called to say she ran into some
traffic.
Child 2: She’ll have to do the exit!
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