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Important Dates
MARCH 22 - RED'S RECYCLE BAND - PARENTS ARE INVITED TO COME AT 9:10 -
SCHOOL SURVEY
Last week, your child received a SCHOOL SURVEY. If you can, please fill it out. It will be greatly appreciated. You can also do the school survey online at WWW.NYCSCHOOLSURVEY.ORG. The survey will give you the opportunity to share your experience having your child in Pre – K. Your feedback is an essential tool in supporting improvement to the program. The GREEN ENVELOPE has the instructions on how to complete the survey. Complete and mail surveys using the postage paid, pre – addressed return envelopes provided with each survey by WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019.
Complete your school survey online by APRIL 3, 2019
Just follow these five easy steps to complete your survey:
Go online to www.nycschoolsurvey.org
Click on ‘Parent / Guardian Survey’
Enter the survey access code in your green envelope
Complete the survey
Click ‘SUBMIT’
NEED AN ACCESS CODE? CALL 1-800-690-8603 -
March 18 to March 22
Unit Topic: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Essential Question: Where does trash go? What do workers do there?
During the reduce, reuse, recycle unit the students will be learning about how to dicard and reuse some trash and how trash is made. This week will be discussing, where does trash go? What do workers do there?Books for the Week:
Sam Helps Recycle
Radio Man
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Crafts for the Week:Planet Earth with Wrappers
Lava Lamps
Sensory Bottles
Easter Egg Maracas
Recycled Milk Carton Houses
Recycled Pattern (Paper, Plastic, Aluminum Foil)Questions of the Day :- Monday- Do you have a recycling bin at home? How do you use your recycling bin?
- Tuesday- How can we take care of the earth?
- Wednesday- What kind of trash can we recycle? Why do we recycle it that way?
- Thursday- What do sanitation workers do with the garbage? How do they get rid of it?
- Friday- What happens to our recycled trash? How do you think that happens?
What You Can Do at Home: Talk with your child about trash and garbage. Help raise your child’s awareness of the kinds of trash and garbage your family creates each day. If you dispose of your trash at a dump or landfill, take your child along to see where the trash goes. Borrow some library books about trash, garbage, and recycling. If you recycle at home, help your child take responsibility for sorting items into your family’s recycling boxes. When you are outside with your child and you notice a piece of trash on the ground, point it out and talk about it. For example, say, “I wonder why someone dropped that candy wrapper on the ground. Is it supposed to be there? Is there a better place to put it? Why?”Center Activities for the Week:
Arts and Crafts:- The students will make their own planet Earth on a paper plate. They will use various wrappers of things they throw out to make the land.
- The students will make their own lava lamps, using old water bottles, food coloring, glitter, and a mint.
- The students will make their own calming sensory bottles using food coloring, and glitter.
- The students will be able to reuse plastic easter eggs and make a musical instrument. The students will be able to add beans to the easter egg and then use two sporks to make maracas.
- The students will be able to make a house using recycled milk cartons. The stduents will be able to save their milk carton from lunch and then wrao it with paper and make their own house.
Dramatic Play:Blocks:The students will pretend that they work with the NYC Sanitation Department. The students will have copies of the recycling rules and they will sort “trash” they see into the appropriate place.
The students will be able to sort “trash” they will sort them into the appropriate place. We will have a trash box, a green recycling box, and a blue recycling box. The students painted old boxes and transformed them into trash receptacles.Using the homemade blocks, other empty boxes, and the block people the students made the students will create a structure using the recycled material.
Library / Writing:
The students will be able to read a variety of reduce reusing recycling books as well as write different reducing reusing recycling words.
The students will be able to write reducing reusing recycling words. The way they will be able to do this is by copying words from a sentence strip to a dry erase board.The students will be able to play the search for the letter game. The students will be able to find the letters of their names using bottle caps. The students will be able to also write their names using the bottle cap letters.
The students will play with the magnetic and rubber stamp letters. They would have to spell out their names and / or the names of their friends / classmates.he students will chart which trash goes where.
The students will chart what is trash? They would have to list the different types of things on what it is and what can be considered trash.
The students will chart do you have a recycling bin at home?
Math and Manipulatives:Using the recycling sorting boxes. The students will sort the “trash” into the proper houses in which they belong in.
Sand and Water :
The students would be given the same recycling sorting boxes, but as a copy and they would have to sort the trash into the proper column on the paper.
The students will play with playdough and the number cards. The students will make playdough numbers using the number cards, the numbers would be 1 – 20.
The students will be able to make recycle patterns using a pre – made paper game that is in the center.
Using ten used empty 16oz bottles filled with sand and a ball. The students will bowl with used bottles. Then students will see how many pins (bottles), they can knock down. The students will subtract the standing bottles from the ones they knocked down.
The students will play with playdough and the number cards. The students will make playdough numbers using the number cards, the numbers would be 1 – 20.
The students would create an ABC pattern from things that they recycle. Paper / Plastic/ Aluminum Foil.
The students will be able to make snow by using 1lb. of baking soda, and shaving cream. The students will pour in 1lb. of baking soda. Then they will spray shaving cream. The students will “knead the snow.” Also, the students will be able to build buildings and make walls using the snow. The students will be able to look for the letters of their name that are written on bottle caps.
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SOME THINGS TO TAKE NOTE OF:
PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILDREN IN WITH COMFORTABLE CLOTHES THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO PUT ON AND OFF THEMSELVES. PLEASE PRACTICE DRESSING, BUTTONING, AND ZIPPERING WITH YOUR CHILDREN AT HOME, AS WE ENCOURAGE INDEPENDENCE IN DRESSING.
SHEETS AND BLANKETS WILL BE SENT HOME AT THE END OF THE WEEK. PLEASE BE SURE TO WASH THEM AND RETURN THEM ON MONDAY.
CHECK YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL BAG DAILY FOR ANY NOTES.
IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY PLEASE SEND A COMPLETE CHANGE OF CLOTHING IN A ZIPLOCK BAG OR PLASTIC SHOEBOX FOR YOUR CHILD.
IF YOUR CHILD HAS AN ACCIDENT IN SCHOOL, PLEASE SEND IN REPLACEMENT CLOTHING.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO LABEL ALL OF YOUR CHILD'S BELONGINGS WITH THEIR NAME AND PRE - K 3
MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS ARE SENT HOME MONTHLY
WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS ARE SENT HOME WEEKLY
During inclement weather PreK will be dismissed in the auditorium.
WE WILL CONTINUE PRACTICING FIRE DRILLS. WE ASK THAT YOU DISCUSS WITH
YOUR CHILD THE IMPORTANCE OF FIRE DRILLS AND BEING PREPARED FOR SCHOOL
EMERGENCIES.
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Miss SaglimbeniMain Office : 718-882-2203
Email : nsaglimbeni@stlucys.org
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7:45-8:15 Arrival /Breakfast/Table Toys
8:15-8:30 Morning Meeting
8:30-10:30 Center Time
10:30-11:00 Hand Washing /Lunch
11:00-12:00 Gross Motor
12:00-1:00 Hand Washing/Setting up for Rest/Rest
1:00-1:15 Snack
1:15-1:45 Center Time
1:45-2:05 Afternoon Meeting/Music & Movement
2:05 Dismissal -
March Birthdays:
Sean Alicka - March 7
Bradyn Cox - March 29 -
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