February 23-27

PPCD News:  February 23-27, 2015

Reminders:

Next week begins our annual ECS FOOD DRIVE!  ECS is helping stock the shelves at the Frisco Family Services Food Pantry!  You can help by sending any of the following items to school with your child!

Non-Perishable Foods such as: peanut butter, jelly, bread, canned pasta meals, boxed meal helpers, boxed mac and cheese, cereal, ramen noodles, crackers, flour, baking mixes, etc.

Personal Care Items such as: toothbrushes, deodorant, shampoo, soap, body wash

Baby Care Items such as: boxed baby cereal, baby formula, size 4 and size 5 diapers

Our Food Drive runs for two full weeks from February 17^th-27^th.  Thank you, in advance, for your donations!

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

and cc mathisj@friscoisd.org

and call transportation @ 469-633-6562

*** If your child is sick, please e-mail me with as many details as possible. ***

Items needed by Monday for cooking/crafts/snack foods:  

vanilla wafers, grapes, graham crackers, popcorn, wheat thins

-please go to Facebook or e-mail me if you want to bring one of the items above so we don’t have any duplicates.  Thank you!

Upcoming activities:

Upcoming Spring Events:

February 16                        No School – Student Holiday/Staff Professional Development Day

February 17-27                  ECS Food Drive

March 3                                6:00pm-7:00pm  Open House – Come and Go Event

March 9-13                         Spring Break! No School!

April 17                                 Letter Parades (9:15 & 12:25)

April 27                                 No School - Student Holiday

May 4-8                                Teacher Appreciation Week

May 25                                 No School

May 29                                 Big Day in Pre-K!

June 2                                   End of Year Parade, Parties (9:15 & 12:25)

ECS WEBSITE:

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

CONCEPTS FOR THE WEEK

Rhombus/Diamond

Pink

Theme:

Art/Color/feel

Books:

See Weekly Record sheet.

Songs

Balloons in the air

Pre-writing

 Letter of the Week—P

See Weekly record sheet for details.

Vocabulary

Pie

Pear

Peacock

Peanut

Pencil

Popsicle

Popcorn

Pickle

Pineapple

Pen

Pig

Puppies

Parrot

Piano

pumpkin

Math:

We will be counting with one to one correspondence.

Fine motor:

Pre-cutting skills—make a duck out of a D

Fine motor strength—tracing lines

Practicing a functional grasp—The children will be completing a writing activity by tracing lines.

We talk about crabby fingers and using 3 fingers and tucking away the other 2 fingers.  The children will write the letter D in the air and on the white board.  

Creativity

The children will blend colors

Literacy:

They will be completing puzzles of items that go together.

Sensory:

The children will dig for P items in rice.