Welcome to Preschool with the Dinofours

Welcome to the Dinofours class blog!!

Welcome to all our new parents. We are so excited to have you and your child 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. If you have a reason why your child's picture should not be posted please let me know ASAP.

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 soon 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
12:40 Story Time then lay down to nap at  1:00

This is our schedule 5 days a week. Monday we introduce the 2 letters of the week. Tuesday we focus on the first letter, Wednesday the 2nd letter. Thursdays are usually Magic Treehouse adventure days. 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 do centers that day. Fridays will host Food Projects as one of the centers and also a "Movie Nap" time.

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.

We have had such a great summer. Now back to our School Readiness Curriculum.
So excited to be partners with you in your child's education and learning

Gardens and Graduation

This week we are starting our unit on Gardens.  We will learn want plants need to grow, types of plant, parts of plants and more.  IF all goes well we may get something planted in our garden box.  
 Here are some pictures of what we did today.

Graduation is coming! 
We will wrap up our Preschool Year on May 15th.  That morning at 10 we will hold a graduation ceremony at our school.  All parents and family members are invited to attend.  We have a short program followed by refreshments.  We try to keep it to 30min or less so parents can get back to work.  All kids are participating and graduating whether they have been in our class for a year or a day.  We don't want anyone to feel left out! Please do whatever you need to do to have someone there to see your child that day.  Children need to be here by 9:30 so we have time to get the class lined up and ready.  We want to start at 10 on the dot!
Hope to see you all there!

What a fun time our Bug and Insect unit has been.  It is so fun seeing which kids get really into bugs.  On worm day our girliest girls were the first to dive in and hold the worms and our boyiest boys were the most hesitant.  Love it!  I am posting a ton of pictures.  I won't try to explain them all... they are from our Ant, Worm, Ladybug and Pillbug centers.  We wrap up Bugs and Insects today and are moving on to Gardens next week.  We are also spending the next week to get ready for our graduation program.  Hope everyone can make it! Here are the pics of  your cute kids.