March 30-April 3

PPCD News:  March 30-April 3, 2015

Reminders:

Make sure your children are getting to bed early.  We have had lots of complaints this week about being tired.  I think the effects of the time change are still lingering.  Thank you for your help in this matter.

*If you are missing a grey hoodie (Kids Korner size 4-5), please e-mail me.

*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:  

Wheat thins, cheese sticks, grapes

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!

 The snacks are only for families that participate in group snack.  If you send a snack then you don’t need to sign up to send snack items.

Family size boxes please not individual packages.

Upcoming activities:

Upcoming Spring Events:

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

Triangle

Blue

Theme:

Animals

Books:

See Weekly Record sheet.

Song

The Elephant song

Pre-writing

 Letter of the Week—A

See Weekly record sheet for details.

Vocabulary

Apron

Ants

Ambulance

Alligator

Angel

Abacus

Acorn

Anchor

Apple

Math:

We will be covering heavy and light.

Fine motor:

Pre-cutting skills- We will be cutting out a letter A

Fine motor strength- We will be peeling stickers to make an ant

Practicing a functional grasp- The children will be practicing the tri-pod grasp while writing.

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

Creativity

The children will create a chick on a plate with paint and glue.

Sensory:

The children will use play dough to create the letter A.