Ms. Bethanie's Classroom

Dear Parents:

We have concluded our Eric Carle Study with a bang!  The pancake party was a huge hit!  Special thanks to Katie (Neil’s mommy) and Jenn (Arthur’s mommy) for staying and helping out!  We really appreciate it!  As you all know by now, we have had a flood and many of our books were damaged, but most of items we were able to clean up and save!  Thank you Leslie (Micah’s mommy) for rearranging your schedule to stay and help sanitize our materials!  We are also having some heating issues in the building and we have been working with Ms. Graham’s classroom until the issue is solved!  We all begin and end the day together, but we split the two classrooms up- one class goes to the gross motor (bike) room and the other class is in my classroom.  The children have been really great with the adjustment, hopefully the problem will be resolved soon!

We will begin our Classic and Fairy Tale Study.  We will begin with Goldilocks and the 3 Bears in correlation with the storyteller and Storybus.  If you have any classic stories or fairy tales that are unique (maybe in a language other than English) and you would like to share we would be very grateful!

UPCOMING AWESOME ACTIVITIES

Tuesday, February 26: Storyteller, all children attend morning class from 8:45-11:20

Wednesday, February 27: Half Day, afternoon class attends from 8:45-11:20

Monday, March 4: Story Bus will be coming for a visit.

Storyteller:  We have a very special storyteller coming on February 26^th, we don’t want anyone to miss out on this activity.  Therefore, both the classes are asked to attend the morning class from 8:45-11:20. 

Story bus:  The story bus is a moving museum.  The children will have a half hour to explore the story bus on March 4^th.  Right now the story bus is set up for the “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.”  The children will have a chance to interact with different materials from the story.  It is a great experience; we are so excited to share with the preschoolers.

February 12th- No School
February 14th- Will be our Eric Carle Celebration with pancakes and fruit! If your child wants to give a small Valentine please do not address each child individually. Your child is encouraged to sign his/her name on the cards- but it is way too difficult for us to make sure that the children have the correct card in their bag. Every child will get a generic bag to take home that day.
Parent-Child Activity #2: The Parent-Child activity will be held on Friday, February 15, 2013 from 9:15-10:15 in the cafeteria. We ask that you come with your preschool child and explore all the different math activities that we have available. This will give you an opportunity to see how your child is doing and have simple activities that you can try at home with your child. Younger siblings are invited to attend.