PPCD News:  April 20-24, 2015

Reminders:

Next week, Thursday, April 23^rd, we have a performance in the cafeteria at 6:00 p.m.  We would love for you to bring your child to perform that night and stay to watch.  Please bring your child to my room at 5:45 p.m.  There will be no PTA meeting that night.  We will be making hats to wear that night.  If you like, you can dress your child in a light or white shirt but please don’t go shopping. Thank you.

*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:  

Wood clothes pins, cheese sticks, goldfish, grapes, and we need more bowl type coffee filters.

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 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

Rectangle

Yellow

Theme:

Earth/Recycling

Books:

See Weekly Record sheet.

Song

Recycle, Recycle

Pre-writing

 Letter of the Week—V

See Weekly record sheet for details.

Vocabulary

Vulture

Van

Violin

Vase

Volleyball

Vegetables

Valentine

Math:

We will be covering rote counting to 10.

Fine motor:

Pre-cutting skills- We will be cutting out a volcano.

Fine motor strength- tracing letters in shaving cream

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 V in the air and on the white board.  

Creativity

The children will paint with recycled materials.

Sensory:

The children will make an earth out of puff paint.