PPCD News April 28-May 1

PPCD News:  April 28-May 1, 2015

Reminders:

Remember: Monday April 27^th is a student holiday – No School Monday!!!

THIS 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:  

Lima beans, Sunflower seeds, popcorn watermelon, worms!!

******Family size boxes please not individual packages for snack foods please****

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.

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:

Plants

Books:

See Weekly Record sheet.

Song

Monster Shape Song

Pre-writing

 Letter of the Week—W

See Weekly record sheet for details.

Vocabulary

Wolf

Wagon

Wing

Worm

Welcome mat

Woodpecker

Wishbone

Wood

Watermelon

Math:

We will be covering shapes and the concept of flipping and turning the shape and “It’s still a Triangle”.

Fine motor:

Pre-cutting skills- We will be cutting out lines.

Fine motor strength- using short writing utensils to trace a W.

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 W in the air and on the white board.  

Creativity

The children will paint and make a flower.

Sensory:

The children will pretend to plant flowers.