May 4-8

PPCD News:  May 4-8, 2015

Reminders:

*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:  

Microwave popcorn

******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:

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

Oval

Purple

Theme:

What is in the sky?

Books:

See Weekly Record sheet.

Song

Mat Man

Pre-writing

 Letter of the Week—X

See Weekly record sheet for details.

Vocabulary

Ox

Six

Ax

Box

Fox

Math:

We will be covering AB patterning this week.

Fine motor:

Pre-cutting skills- We will be cutting play dough.

Fine motor strength- using short writing utensils to write an  X on the white board.

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 X in the air and on the white board.  

Creativity

The children will paint and make cloud picture of the sky.

Sensory:

The children will paint a starry sky.