March Themes
Dr. Seuss Pirates Bedtime Easter
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Four Year Old Parents
Kindergarten is coming soon and we want your children to be as confident as possible to start their first year of school!! There are four skills that your children should be doing consistently upon entering kindergarten:
Hold a pencil correctly (proper pencil grip – tripod grasp)
Hold scissors correctly (thumb’s up)
Recognize his/her name
Put on his/her own shoes and zip up his/her own coat
We have been working on these skills with the children since the beginning of the school year and they all have been doing very well. Any extra work at home with these tasks would be beneficial to the transition from playschool to kindergarten.
March 6 - Twin day for the Monday/Wednesday classes – dress like a family member or classmate
March 7 - Twin day for the Tuesday/Thursday classes – dress like a family member or classmate
March 12 - Board of Directors meeting 7pm
March 13 – Dress like a pirate for the Monday/Wednesday classes
March 14 – Dress like a pirate for the Tuesday/Thursday classes
March 19 – Miss Marg comes to read to the Tuesday/Thursday classes
March 20 – Pajama Day for the Monday/Wednesday classes
March 21 – Pajama Day for the Tuesday/Thursday classes
March 20 – Wear mismatched socks for the Monday/Wednesday classes – Down Syndrome Awareness Day
March 21 – Wear mismatched socks for the Tuesday/Thursday classes – Down Syndrome Awareness Day
March 27 – Easter Party for the Monday/Wednesday classes
March 28 – Easter Party for the Tuesday/Thursday classes
Pajama Day
Each playschool class will be having their own pajama day. The children can come to playschool in their pajamas and they can also bring a pillow and a stuffy if they so choose. These are also miss-matched socks day so please feel free to have your child celebrate both days at the same time!! For each pajama day, we are planning on following the regular classroom routine, however we will be including a few different games and activities which will be related to the pajama day theme. Each class will be watching a movie and will have popcorn as a treat. But please send your child with a regular snack as the movie won’t be played until the end of each class.
Easter Party
The Easter parties for each class will be held on Wednesday, March 27th and Thursday, March 28th. One of the day’s activities will be decorating Easter eggs!
PLEASE BRING TWO HARD – BOILED EGGS TO THE EASTER PARTY SO THAT YOUR CHILD CAN DECORATE THEIR EGGS AT THE PARTY!
The children will need to bring a regular snack to the party as we will be following our day as close to the usual routine as possible.
Donations we would really appreciate this month are:
Large white paper plates Brown paper plates
Table Time
This month, the three year old’s will be working on both left and right diagonal lines, wavy lines, zigzag lines, and we will be starting to learn the vocabulary for the Handwriting Without Tears program. These activities will aid the children in recognizing familiar two-dimensional shapes, and will allow them to use correct top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality for symbols.
At this time, they will be practicing holding a crayon and using their helper hand to stabilize their papers. At craft time, we work one on one with the children and we are able to help them with proper pencil grasp, holding scissors correctly, and following one or two step directions.
At the beginning of the year, playtime for three year old’s usually involves parallel play, where the children play beside each other but not with each other. As the year goes on, this slowly transitions into imaginative play where the children will start creating games that involve more than just themselves. This is where we are at now in the three year old class and there are some really close friendships emerging!! During this kind of play, the children are learning problem solving skills, sharing, taking turns, as well as new ideas they may have not thought of themselves. All the skills are extremely beneficial for the children and are preparing them for the more structured four year old program.
This month the four year old’s will be working on letters P, B, R, and K. Practicing these letters will help the children learn to use correct top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality for letters, while holding a crayon with proper pencil grip and using their helper hand to help stabilize objects and paper. I work closely with the children at this center so I am able to help them with their pencil grip as well as help them with the letters in their name. I am very impressed with all of the four year olds!! They have come so far with their name writing and their understanding of the lingo used in the Handwriting Without Tears Program.
Michelle’s center almost always involves some king of scissor practice which may have to do with the theme or the letter that we are working on. The children love this center and all of them have improved significantly with their scissor skills!! We are both so proud of all the kids, and how well they are doing this year!!!!