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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
A Reminder About Our Playschool Fundraiser.....
Thank you to all of the families who attended and purchased food for the Shabbat Dinner on October 21. We had a fantastic turnout and we are very much looking forward to our next dinner in the spring.
Please let us know if you will be purchasing your child’s painting for our Playschool fundraiser. Their preschool art makes a great childhood keepsake and helps our Playschool grow. Donations may be given to any of our teachers or directly to Miss Gloria.
Thank you so much for your support!
Warmly,
The SHS Playschool Staff
Monday, November 7, 2011
News from Miss Gloria's Class: 11/4/11
Friday, November 4, 2011
LETTER OF THE WEEK: C
On Monday, we read We Are All Alike. . . We Are All Different by the Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergartners. This book is filled with photographs and drawings of children and their families. In the book, we learn how children are like each other and how children can also be different from each other. The book tells about the differences in families, in the foods that people eat, where people live, and what children like to play. Our art project was for each child to create their own self portrait. Their art work is being displayed in the Social Hall and all of the children will complete this project.
On Tuesday, we began to learn letter C. We learned these letter C words: cat, cow, count, circle, caterpillar, crawl, coat, cupcake, clock, calendar, colors, and our friends, Charley, Collin, Cobrin, and Charlotte. We read two books today. Cleo’s Color Book, by Caroline Mockford, teaches children how to recognize colors and how to mix colors to make new colors. We also read Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin, Jr. Nine little caterpillars are on the move, and the tenth little caterpillar climbs up an apple tree, hangs there patiently, until it becomes a butterfly. For our letter C art project, the children made their C’s look like caterpillars. The boys and girls practiced counting their fingers, hands, feet, toes, eyes, ears, and nose. They also counted the number of boys, the number of girls , and the number of grown-ups in the circle.
On Wednesday, the story group read Fall Is for Friends by Suzy Spafford. In this book, Emily and Suzy want the colorful leaves to fall off of the trees. They sing, “Blow, breeze, blow the leaves, gently to the ground. My friend and I are waiting! And fall is all around!” The journal group colored fall leaves to place on their journal page. In yoga, Miss Jackie read Animal Safari and the children posed as animals that live in the jungle, such as snakes, fish, lions, and crabs. They pretended to blow out the candles on a birthday cake to practice yoga breathing, and afterwards, the children named their special birthday wishes.
On Thursday, we read Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom! by Stuart J. Murphy. This book about cars has the red cars vrooming, the yellow cars beeping, and the blue cars crashing. Molly, and her brother, Kevin, have fun as they set their toy cars in motion. For our art project, the boys and girls made cars. We sang some new fall songs and we sang, “The Wheels on the Car”.
On Friday, we read The Littlest Candlesticks by Sylvia A. Rouss. Abby loves Shabbat so much that she wants to have her own candlesticks. In school, her teacher gives the children their own glass candlesticks. Abby surprises her family with the candlesticks, on which she has painted the sun, daisies, a rainbow, and a heart for the love that she feels for Shabbat. Our art project was to make a meowing cat.
*Thank you to Vasilios, Stella, Lucy, and Lucia for being our super “kids of the day” this week.
* The boys and girls are having a great time in Afterschool Arts cooking, experimenting in science, creating art projects, using their body in movement, and learning and singing new and familiar songs. Please have your child try it out! Also, if you know of any children who are not enrolled in the Playschool, but would like to participate in our Afterschool Arts programming, they are welcome to join us, too.
*All families will be receiving information about September 2012—May 2013 Playschool enrollment very soon. Our enrollment policy has changed so please make sure that you read the upcoming announcements. If you have any questions about enrollment in any of our classes for your child/children, do not hesitate to ask.
*As a reminder, the Playschool will close at 12:30 PM on Wednesday, November 23. There will be no Pre-K PM or Afterschool Arts. We will also be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 24 and Friday, November 25.
*Please mark your calendars for our annual Hanukkah Happening and Playschool Open House on Sunday, December 11 from 11 AM until1 PM. Children will enjoy Hanukkah crafts, music, and dreidel games. Delicious latkes will be served. More information will be forthcoming soon. We hope to see all of our Playschool families there!
Next week, we will learn letter N. Have a great weekend!
Miss Gloria, Miss Michelle, Miss Mindy, Miss Polly, and Miss Rebecca
News from Miss Gloria's Class: 10/28/11
Friday, October 28, 2011
LETTER OF THE WEEK: G
On Monday, we talked to the children about our trip to the Art Museum. We discussed going on the school bus and wearing our seatbelts for the ride. We talked about what we would be doing in the museum, how the children had to stay with their grown-ups, and how they should use their eyes to look at the art. We explained that we would walk through the galleries, read Jennie’s Hat, make an art project, and have lunch in the museum. The theme of the lesson is Fashion in Art. For our class art project, based on Jennie’s Hat, the boys and girls made their own hats. Jennie’s Hat, written by Ezra Jack Keats, tells the story of Jennie’s plain-looking hat, a gift from her aunt. Jennie really wanted a hat filled with colorful flowers and ribbons. Jennie’s bird friends tried to make her happy by adding leaves, colored eggs, a paper fan, roses, a picture of swans, and a bird’s nest with chirping young birds onto her hat. Now Jennie was very proud and excited to have such a fancy hat. We also looked at some of the pictures in the book A is for Art Museum by Katy Friedland and Marla K. Shoemaker. This book is filled with works of art that can be found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Tuesday was our trip to the Art Museum. All of the boys and girls had a wonderful, first trip, to the museum. We looked at the painting called Woman with Loaves by Picasso and we also looked at three paintings of women wearing hats by Pierre Bonnard. The boys and girls made guesses as to why the woman was carrying bread on her head in Picasso painting. Most of the children thought that she did it just to be funny! For our museum art project, the boys and girls made their own hats.
On Wednesday, the story group read Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall. The children in the journal group colored fall leaves. In yoga, Miss Jackie read The Earth and I by Frank Asch. As she read about the ways to care for the earth, the children used their bodies to yoga pose in each of these ways. Their favorite yoga poses were planting seeds, making the rain and thunder, and growing tall.
On Thursday, we read Mr. George and the Red Hat by Stephen Heigh. In this book, Mr. George, a squirrel, finds a red felt hat. He cannot find its owner, so he decides to keep it. At first, he uses the hat for his acorns and peanuts. When he hears that a mother bird needs a home for her babies, he kindly gives the red hat to the bird family to use as its new home. For our art project, the boys and girls used orange tissue paper to make pumpkins. We also played a parachute game. Each child had the opportunity to sit in the middle of the parachute and name their favorite kind of cake. We sang a song about each child making a mistake and sitting on their favorite cake.
On Friday, we read A Color of his Own by Leo Lionni. All animals have a color of their own, except for chameleons. They change color wherever they go. A lonely chameleon, in search of his own color, finds a new friend who is just like him. For our art project, the children made a color wheel.
*Thank you to Luke, Alejandro, Noa, Alexander, Massimo, Robert, Gemma, Charley, Izzy, Lincoln T., and Lincoln K. for being our super “kids of the day” during the past few weeks.
* Please enroll your child in Afterschool Arts. The boys and girls have so much fun cooking, experimenting in science, creating art projects, using their body in movement, and learning and singing new and familiar songs. If you know of any children who are not enrolled in the Playschool, but would like to participate in our Afterschool Arts programming, please let me know.
*Thank you to all of the grandparents and special friends who spent last Friday morning at the Playschool It was a pleasure to meet everyone and we hope that you enjoyed our programming.
*Thank you to all of the families who attended and purchased food for the Shabbat Dinner on October 21. We had a fantastic turnout and we will have another dinner in the spring.
*Please let us know if you will be purchasing your child’s painting for our Playschool fundraiser. Their preschool art makes a great childhood keepsake.
*Thank you to all of the parents who accompanied us on the trip to the Art Museum. Our second trip will take place on Tuesday, January 10, 2012.
Next week, we will learn letter C. Have a great weekend!
Miss Gloria, Miss Michelle, Miss Mindy, Miss Polly, and Miss Rebecca
News from Miss Gloria's Class: October 6, 2011
Friday, October 6, 2011
LETTER OF THE WEEK: F
Last Monday, September 26, we read Sound the Shofar! by Leslie Kimmelman. This book tells about celebrating Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in the synagogue and in the home. A shofar is made from a ram’s horn and it is blown in the synagogue to remind us of ancient times and to announce the new year. For our art project, the boys and girls made Rosh Hashanah greeting cards for their families. The children enjoyed singing songs for the Rosh Hashanah holiday and songs for the fall season.
On Monday, October 3, the boys and girls used their creative talents to paint on canvases for our upcoming Art Exhibit on Friday evening, October 21 during our Fall Shabbat Dinner. Each of the children’s art work will showcase their unique talents. As you will soon see, their art is really quite expressive. All of the paintings will be hung in the Spruce Street lobby. On that evening, all guests will have the opportunity to view the art as it will be presented as a fundraiser for the Playschool. We read Old Bear’s Surprise Painting by Jane Hissey. In this book, Old Bear and his friends paint patterns of wiggly lines, dots, and stripes to create one exciting painting.
On Tuesday, we learned the letter F for fall. We learned these other letter F words: fun, fingers, face, feet, frog, family, friends, feathers, four, five, and father. We read Feathers for Lunch by Lois Ehlert. When a cat walks outside through an open door, it decides to find lunch. The cat tries to catch some of the birds that it sees up above, but the cat fails to reach any of them. Instead, as bird feathers fall to the ground, the cat makes the feathers his lunchtime meal. The boys and girls decorated the letter F for fall by painting leaves and acorns and placing them onto the letter F.
On Wednesday, the story group read Clifford’s First Autumn by Norman Bridwell. In this book, Clifford enjoys the fall as he jumps into a pile of leaves, picks pumpkins, and plays football. The children in the journal group made an entry for Rosh Hashanah. They filled their pages with apples, honey, and stickers of apples. In yoga, Miss Jackie began the class with yoga breathing. She asked the children to name their favorite foods as they took yoga breaths. She read What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? written by Steve Jenkins. As we learned some fun facts about animals, the boys and girls learned how to yoga pose like elephants, lizards, and crickets.
On Thursday, we read The Grandpa Book and The Grandma Book both written by Todd Parr. Both of these books tell how wonderful it is to have grandparents. Grandpas make children laugh and they teach them new things. Grandmas make sure that their grandchildren are warm and safe and that they always have a full tummy. For our art project, the boys and girls made gifts that they will present to their grandparents and special friends when they visit our school.
*Thank you to Vasilios, Kaya, Charlotte, and Phoebe for being our super “kids of the day” last week and this week.
* Please enroll your child in Afterschool Arts. The boys and girls have so much fun cooking, experimenting in science, creating art projects, using their body in movement, and learning and singing new and familiar songs. If you know of any children who are not enrolled in the Playschool, but would like to participate in our Afterschool Arts programming, please let me know.
* The Playschool will be closed on Friday, October 7, Monday, October 10, Thursday, October 13, Friday, Octo-
ber 14, and Thursday, October 20. There will be no Pre-K PM or Afterschool Arts on Wednesday, October 19.
* In looking forward, on Friday, October 21, we will be celebrating Grandparent’s /Special Friend’s Day, the Playschool Art Exhibit, and our Fall Shabbat Dinner. Please let us know the names and addresses of the grandparents and special friends who you are inviting. We will be mailing invitations to them. The Fall Shabbat Dinner sign-up will be hanging on our classroom door soon. Please indicate the main entrée that you will be bringing and the number of people from your family who will be in attendance. All children are invited to attend on Grandparent’s /Special Friend’s Day, even if Friday is not a regular day for your child to attend Playschool.
* Tuesday, October 25 is our first trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A flyer and permission slip will be sent home next week. Also, eight parents can accompany us on each of the four trips to the museum. Please sign-up if you would like to attend the first trip.
Have a great holiday weekend!
Miss Gloria, Miss Michelle, Miss Mindy, Miss Polly, and Miss Rebecca
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