Winter Unit Continued - Feb 9 - Feb. 12
Hello Spoede Pre-K Families,
What a fun week leading up to our amazing Valentine's Day/ Friendship party. Thank you for all of your help making our party really fun. We had a great turn out of parents! Thank you to our Room Parents, Katherine Hunter (Hallie's Mom) and Rachel Wittenberg Conor's Mom), for organizing our party and getting all of the supplies for all the creative activities. The kids liked everything! Also, thank you for all of the birthday wishes, cards from the students and gifts I received. Its always a party on my Birthday and everyone is invited!❤️❤️❤️. This week we focus on Lunar New Year, and a book study on short Jan Brett book study focusing on The Hat and the Mitten. (We already read The Gingerbread Baby and The Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett.)
Monday- We started out celebrating Cheyenne's 5th Birthday with GoNoodle Birthday Dances, as well as a few Danny Go choices. We enjoyed our Monday Morning Share where each student tells about they did over the weekend or upcoming events. We made made Love You To Pieces Valentine Hearts by tearing colored paper (white, red, and pink) into small pieces and gluing them onto a heart pattern. Great for fine motor strengthening and creativity. We worked on graphing clothing into Winter Wear and Summer Wear by cutting apart different pieces of clothing and sorting them onto which side of a graph the item belonged. We also colored, cut and ordered hearts with numbers 0 - 10, gluing them in numerical order on sentence strips.
Continued to provide opportunities to work on jigsaw puzzles which helps with growth in all developmental areas, including Physical Development (Fine Motor), Cognitive Growth and Problem Solving, as well as Emotional and Social Skills. The fine motor skills included pincer grasp practice moving the pieces around and hand to eye coordination. Cognitive growth and problem solving included the spatial awareness, shape and color recognition needed to find where the pieces go. The emotional and social skills used and needed to be successful include persistence, patience and collaboration.
Tuesday - We enjoyed outdoors recess with lots of sunshine and some lingering snow. It was a little too tempting to stay out of the puddles, but we all like the new warmer weather conditions. We made Heart Cookie Cutter Prints, using 5 different sized hearts and red, white and pink paint. We continued a couple projects from Monday so everyone had a chance to complete the center. We finished coloring, cutting and gluing number Hearts in order from 0-10. We also finished making Love You To Pieces torn paper hearts and the graphing clothing into Winter or Summer wear project. In the afternoon, we enjoyed music with Ms. Li. The students warmed up with a new song called Sunshine: Good Morning, Good Morning with a little stretching and a little marching. The students then danced with scarves and sang L-O-V-E, I love you and you love me.... Finally, switched to Egg Shaker instruments and worked on rhythm, dancing, and singing with each student getting to be the leader of a movement that everyone else had to copy.
Wednesday - We made Valentine's Hearts with white crayons drawing the hearts and water color paints making the special effect. We experimented with free drawing and then started using heart cookie cutters of different sizes to trace for more creativity and a different fine motor skill. Finished up the Cookie Cutter print painting for those who didn't have a chance the previous day.
Thursday - Started the day making Valentine's Day Crowns, everyone so excited about the upcoming Valentine's Day Party. Participated in the Family Day/Cooperation all-school assembly. Thank you so much for the donations of socks and underwear to our service project, Little Bit Foundation. The whole school collection totals were quite amazing. Completed the cooperation activity assigned at the family assembly. Pre-K students started out holding hands and were challenged to pass a Hula hoop around the whole circle without dropping hands. This activity took lots of patience, cooperation, and problem solving as a group. The Pre-K Kids did great. Finally, we enjoyed a fabulous Valentine's Day party. The students decorated Valentine bags for collecting Valentines, made Valentine monsters and decorated cards for Ms. Davenport's birthday. Students also enjoyed a snack and drink provided by the SSD. It was nice seeing so many parents at the party.
Upcoming Events/Dates to remember
Fri. Feb. 20. Last Day to order Cardinal Tickets (for March 28th Game). See flyer below
Feb 23 - Feb 26. Scholastic Book Fair. See flyer below.
Wed. Feb 25. Spoede Pre-K shopping day Scholastic Book Fair. Our time is 10:10 - 10:40. Parents are welcome to come up and help their own student and/or may volunteer to help will all pre-K book shopping. We will go in small groups and my TA's will escort the students back and forth to the Book Fair located upstairs in the Library. Please let me know if you can make it. You can meet your child in the library.
Thurs. Feb. 26. Drive-In Movie Night - Doors open at 5:30 PM. and the movie begins promptly at 6:00pm. The movie being shown is TOY STORY. This will be the last chance to buy books from the Scholastic Book Fair with will stay open through the end of the movie. More information to come.
Mar. 10 Spring Parent /Teacher Conferences. 4:15 - 8:15
Mar. 11. Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences. 4:15 - 7:15
Mar. 12. Early Release Day. Carpool starts loading around 1:07.
Mar. 13. No School for students or teachers
Mar. 16 - Mar. 20. Spring Break - No School District Closed
Mar. 23 - School Resumes
There are only 2 WEEKS LEFT to order tickets!
Ticket Orders Due Friday, February 20
Ticket Orders Due Friday, February 20
Come watch the St. Louis Cardinals play opening weekend and support the Spoede Chorus as they sing "The Star Spangled Banner" before the game! Please see the flyer below for more information.
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Scholastic Book Fair
The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Spoede School soon! SAVE THE DATE for Feb. 23-26 and get your reader(s) psyched to pick out their own books! Start exploring together: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/spoedeelementaryschool
#ScholasticBookFairs
February Family Celebrations
We invite you to share photos and descriptions of your family's favorite traditions (holidays, cultural events, special days, etc.). We will feature different families each month in the Google slide document on our school televisions throughout the month.
See all of the fun we had this past week! We hope you enjoy the pictures.
Happy Birthday, Cheyenne
Making Love You to Pieces Hearts with torn colored paper and glue.
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Graphing Clothing by Winter and Summer Gear
Coloring Hearts with random numbers 0-10, cutting them out and gluing them in numerical order.
Amazing how much fun the kids have working together to build cup towers.Great for cooperation and group collaboration.
Outdoor Recess fun with some sunshine and some snow
Sorting Clothes by Winter and Summer (Cutting, gluing, sorting)
Music with Ms. Li
Started off with a warm up song Sunshine:Good Morning Good Morning
Turned our scarves in for Shaking Eggs
Family Assembly for Cooperation and Kindness
Valentine's Day/ Friendship Party was great fun!
