PPCD News:  January 5-9, 2015

Reminders:

***IF YOUR CHILD IS ABSENT please email earlychildhood@friscoisd.org

and cc mathisj@friscoisd.org

and call transportation @ 469-633-6562

Items needed by Wednesday for cooking:

We need fake snow, Crisco sticks, styrofoam pieces, cotton swabs.  

Items needed by Monday for crafts/classroom: 

* Please comment on Facebook if you are able to bring an item. Thank you!  

Upcoming activities

ECS WEBSITE:

http://schools.friscoisd.org/spc/ecs/site/home

CONCEPTS FOR THE WEEK

Triangle

White

Theme:

Winter

Books:

See Weekly Record sheet.

Songs

The Chubby Little Snowman

Pre-writing

 Letter of the Week—C

The children will write letters on a white board with short crayons and in “snow” with their fingers.

Vocabulary

Car

Cap

Corn

Cup

Cookie

Carrots

Camera

Candle

Candy

Coin

Compass

Comb

Coconut

Cactus

Camel

Cat

Math:

We will sort pompoms and count snowflakes

Fine motor:

Pre-cutting skills—Cut a snowflake.

Fine motor strength—Use tongs to move cotton balls into a bottle.

Practicing a functional grasp—Write on the board.

We talk about crabby fingers and using 3 fingers and tucking away the other 2 fingers.

Art

Create a snow globe.

Literacy:

The children will play a game with letters.

Sensory:

The children will make a snow scene with cotton items.