New Parent Letter

We have a September Parent letter to pass out this week- make sure to read it!!

For sharing this Friday bring something that starts with the same letter as your child's first name!

Thanks
Teacher Trina

Welcome New Parents!!

Welcome to the Dinofours class blog!!

Why Dinofours you ask? Well- it is a book series about a preschool class made up of dinosaurs. The kids in the books work through a lot of the same problems we work through in our class. We kinda feel attached to them. So that is where Dinofours comes from....

Welcome to all our new parents. We are so excited to have you join our School Family. We can't wait to get to know you and work with you. This blog is designed to be a resource for you so you can find info at home even if you lost the note we gave you at school or *gasp* forgot to read the white board. Not that any of us would ever do that.......;)

I will post upcoming events and notices. I will also post pictures starting in September once I have made certain everyone knows about the blog.

I hope everyone has gotten a new Parent Packet from us. If we missed you then please let us know and we will get you one. I will also be putting out a newsletter next week to inform you more about some of the fun ways we try to involve you in your child's preschool life.

Here is a basic run down of our Preschool time schedule.

9:30 Circle time- a group time where we gather everyone to read, sing, tell stories and learn.
10:00 Outside time- when it gets colder we will have an indoor activity time
10:30-11:30 Center time- Teachers set out centers and children have an hour to explore and learn. Teachers get down and facilitate learning but do not lead here. This is a time that they really get to make choices and grow.
11:30 Music or singing time
12:00 Lunch

This is our schedule 5 days a week now. Friday is no longer "Movie Day" or "Toy day". We will have a Sharing Circle time on Fridays where children may share the thing they brought from home that starts with the letter of the week. We will also still do centers that day. For those returning parents this will be an adjustment but Fridays will still host Food Projects as one of the centers and also a "Movie Nap" time. We just felt like so much time was being wasted on Fridays. We are very excited about the changes!!

This blog is meant to be a resource for you. Feel free to follow it and leave comments. If you think of something that you would like me to post about just let me know and I will see what I can do. My computer skills aren't super great but I will do my best.

This week for sharing children can choose 1 toy from home of choice- maybe something they really love or something that tells us about them. Letters of the week will start Sept. 13th
with A&B and then go down from there. We will go through the whole Alphabet before Christmas. Then again before graduation in May. I will post more on this later and also every week put what letters we are doing here so you can go over them with your children at home.

So excited to be partners with you in your child's education and learning
Teacher
Trina

Cowboys and Camping

Welcome to the Wild West!!! Here we are playing the piano just like the Ghost in our Magic Tree House book "Ghost Town at Sundown"
Sleeping by the fire after a long day of gettin' them doggies along.....
Circling the wagons to saftey
YEE HAW

Now time to Camp here we are roasting our marshmallows.

We painted trees.

We played with animals in the tent and many other things- our favorites were reading books and playing UNO.

This was our yummy Fishing snack. 1st get the pretzel pole, 2nd dip it in the PB bait, 3rd catch a goldfish, 4th EAT IT!! So fun and so delicious!


Using our magnifying glasses to check out all sorts of things we might find when camping.We even looked at beaver and skunk skulls. They were donated to our class by one of our fabulous parents who was a forest ranger. He brought us a whole bunch of things he found in Logan Canyon.
Fishing in our indoor pond.
Making S'mores after our hike to the canal on Friday. WE were so spoiled s'mores, birthday cupcakes and trail mix. If your kids didn't eat their dinner now you know why.....


We had a great time camping!

Aug 2-6

This week is our "I Want to be a Scientist Week". We will learn all about the scientific method and ways to measure. We will get to experiment with all sorts of different materials. Last year we had such a good mess time!! We are so excited! On Friday our Head Start Child Care Connection teacher will be paying us a visit to make Banana Splits and we will try out some fun experiments.

Our official new school year will start on August 23rd. On that day we will send everyone who is 5 by September 1st over to the 5's class and we will get our new group of kids from upstairs.

This Fall we will be trying out a new curriculum. We are switching to a monthly theme. We are so excited about the change. We will also be doing 2 letters a week in hopes of getting through the whole alphabet before January when we move our 5 year olds again. A monthly theme allows more leeway to spend more time on things that interests the children and less time on things that don't. We also think it will really help us increase our focus on important skills your child will need for school. I hope that you are as excited for the change as us. We have put a lot of thought into this decision. Keep an eye out for more info about the Fall.

See you all tomorrow-
Teacher Trina