Winter Themes: Groundhogs day and 100th Day of School
Hello Spoede Pre-K Families,
February winter themes are full of exciting celebrations. We made it through Groundhogs day and Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow and predicting 6 more weeks of Winter. Plus, we are now officially 101 more school days older and wiser in Pre-K. Our next Blog will cover Friendship/Valentines parties, the Winter Olympics and Presidents Day.
More Winter Themes for February, including Valentines Day, Presidents Day and some special Winter Olympics coming up over the next 2 weeks.
Monday - We started our day with our Monday morning share. We celebrated Groundhog's Day by coloring and cutting out Groundhogs Day Crowns and Groundhogs Day puppets in their paper bag burows. Also made reproducibles books about hibernation.
Tuesday- We enjoyed lot's of cooperation working on our new100 Piece Puzzles. Preview for the 100th Day activity. We made a snowman with a lot of coloring, cutting and gluing together a giant snowman. Made Valentine's Cupcake fold surprise pictures. Enjoyed music with Ms. Li. We practiced rhythms with drum sticks and then got to play bucket drums. The students have great rhythm.
Wednesday- Practiced counting to 100 with Zero The Hero! Made 100th Day Glasses preparing for our 100th Day celebration. We continued to make snowman project. Lots of tricky steps so they took a couple days to complete. Practiced an Earth Quake Drill.
Thursday- Celebrated 100th Day of school all day. We enjoyed having parents come and help with 100th Day snack, 100 piece Fruit Loop necklace, stacking 100 cup tower, completing 100 piece puzzles, playing race to 100 dice game, making 100 sticker posters, and making 100th Day of school crowns, just to name some of the activities.
Friday-- We started with some fun 100th day activities that were not completed on Thursday, including 100 cup towers, 100 piece puzzles, playing race to 100 dice game, making 100 sticker posters with stickers and dot paints. Also did some writing, including (What we would or wouldn't want 100 of..), (What we look like now and what we look like in 100 years. ) We enjoyed outside recess with sidewalk chalk and a little fun in the snow. In Art with Ms. Tara, we learned about the Famous Artist Alma Thomas and and watched a short video on how she painted with patterns, dots and circles. The students then completed an art work composition with circles and patterns, influenced by Alma's artwork.
Upcoming Events/Dates to remember
Mon., Feb. 9. Cheyenne's 5th Birthday
Thurs. Feb 12. 9:35 - 10:20 Family Day/Cooperation Assembly We’ll cap our collection drive on Thursday morning with an all-school assembly.
Thurs. Feb. 12 - Spoede Friendship/Valentines Parties More details below.
Fri. Feb. 13 - No School. Teacher Professional Development
Fri. Feb. 20. Last Day to order Cardiinal Tickets (for March 28th Game). See flyer below
Mon., Feb. 16 - No School. President's Day
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 smaller groups and my TA's will escort the students back and forth to the Book Fair located upstairs by the Library.
Spoede Service Project - Little Bit
his is the last week for Little Bit donations! All last minute family communication and donations are greatly appreciated. We’ll celebrate our cooperative efforts during Thursday’s assembly. Pre-K is collecting children's socks and underwear.
Friendship/Valentine's Day Parties
Please do not send any food (including that wonderful Valentine’s Day chocolate and/or candy 🙂) to school with your child.
Students may leave with their parents at the conclusion of their class party, but any student leaving early must be signed out by the parent.
Party attendees are welcome to park in the inner parking lot, the outer ring surrounding the inner lot, and any open spaces in the bus dropoff circle.
--#ScholasticBookFairs
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.
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
See all of the fun we had this past week! We hope you enjoy the pictures.
Monday Morning Share of things we did over the weekend.
Groundhog's Day Puppets and their Burroughs
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Groundhog Day Crowns
Free Choice Play
Lot's of Cooperation for our new 100 Piece Puppy Puzzle. Preview for the 100th Day activity. The photo includes students just wanting to be in the group picture. LOL!
Making Snowman with lots of coloring, cutting and gluing together.
More Puzzle Cooperation of our other new 100 piece puzzle.
Cupcake folding surprise!
Music with Ms. Li. Singing about L-O-V-E for valentines day.
Learning some rhythm with drum sticks on the floor, and later with bucket drums.
Making Tiger Masks for student directed choice at centers.
Some iside dancing for excercis!
Teamwork Tower Building
Morning Recess outside with some snow castles.
Art with Ms. Tara. The kids learned about the Artist Alma Thomas and how she painted with patterns, dots and circles. The students then completed art work, influenced by the Alma's themes.
Alma's Art video that the students watched before they got their instructions.
Working in our art journals.
