Friday, February 18, 2011
Spring FEVER!
Guess what? We can use our RED DOOR on Tuesday the 22nd!!! Yay!!!!
I bet you can tell from the new blog background that I have spring fever? I think we all could use a good dose of Vitamin D from the sun and just sit in it for a while. These last few days have spoiled us I'm afraid and we are going to have a hard time staying inside if winter is much longer.
Anyway, I am making up the newsletter for March and wanted to let you all in on a little goal that the Frog class has made with me and I am going to make somewhat of the same deal with the Fish class.
The goal with the Frog's is to have ALL students zipping their own coats, tieing their own shoes and snapping their own snaps by the end of March! For the Fish class we need to have them zipping and snapping their own items of clothing. If both classes do this, we will have either a Sundae party or a Pizza party...my treat! We have been working really hard all year to help these fine motor skills come along. We know you work with them at home and I'm hoping this will give the kid's a little incentive to practice on thier own. For tieing shoes I would like to ask if the kid's could borrow a big sneaker or boot with laces and for you to show them how to get it started. We have shown them how to make the X with the laces and roll the top under, the loops are the hardest part. So any extra help you send their way to progress this goal would be appreciated.
Coming up in March is our Cookie Dough fundraiser,(which is always a huge sucess), our Buggy For Books reading incentive program that runs into the middle of April and....playing outside hopefully! Be looking for information about these things in the weeks to come.
One more sidenote: We are still accepting Campbell's Labels for Education. All of the participating items are on the sheet in your child's BEE folder. Also, if you have ever wondered what our Fish Bowl is at the sign in desk, it is our "Fishing for Donations" bowl. In there are fish that have an item written on them that our preschool is always in need of. If you have ever thought about donating something and aren't quite sure what to get, grab a fish from the bowl! We appreciate all the help we can get!
Thank you so much for all your support and have a wonderful long weekend! See you on the 22nd!
Shelly