Plants!

Spring is here and we will be planting in our garden! We will learn about the plant life cycle in class. Each student will grow their own grass and in a few weeks were getting our butterflies!

New Technology iggy investigates an ipad

Dear Parents,

Monday was the start of passover! In class we will watch the Rugrats episode of Passover to enlighten the children on the various holidays going on in the world. This is an easy way for them to see and it is age level appropriate. For snack we will try motza. Free free to have the kids bring in anything for show and tell that will help broaden the spectrum even more :)

Thank you,

Miss Ronan

EASTER!

Dear Parents,

We will be dying Easter in eggs in class on Friday! We have smocks in class that the kids always wear, but we usually work with WASHABLE markers, paints, etc. The dye is permanent... so please do no dress in the best Easter outfit on Friday. The eggs will be sent home the same day so everyone has them for Easter. Happy Holidays!

Miss Ronan

Dear Parents,

We have our field trip to the ice cream store on Tuesday! Make sure the students wear their yellow school tee shirt. AM and PM session will all go together so remember the time adjustment. All pre-schoolers are to arrive at 10am. We will be leaving between 10:15am and 10:30am. Thank you. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Miss Ronan :)

spring break

Good morning!

Hope everyone has enjoyed their week off :) We are back to school tomorrow and back in action. It has been lovely out so pack a light jacket for when we go out in the tot-lot. I'm sure the kids can not wait to play on their playground after all that rain we had in school. We will also do show and tell on Monday. Have the kids bring in something that they did over break. Can't wait to see everyone's smiling faces!

Miss Ronan

Dentist

Dear parents,

This week we are taking our field trip to the dentist! Students will get the experience of sitting in the chair and seeing what the dentist is all about. We want to let the children experience these things early so they are not afraid and learn to love the dentist! If you have any questions feels free to ask. Have a wonderful week.

Miss Ronan :)

Dear Parents,
This week is all about Dr. seuss! We will be learning about him in class and reading many of his books. If you have any Dr. Seuss books at home feel free to bring them in. We will use them durning reading time. Thank you and have a wonderful day!
-Miss Ronan :)

Winter Olympics

Dear parents,
As you may know the winter Olympics are going on right now. In class we will discuss them. We are going to go over the different events and how the Olympics only happen every four years! Feel free to talk about the different events with your children and possibly have them choose their favorite. They are more then welcome to share this with the class. See everyone Monday. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Miss Ronan

SNOW DAYS

Parents,
Hope everyone has enjoyed their days off, but it is time to get back into the swing of things. Remember to dress your children warmly in case we do make a trip outside. Also our letter this week is going to be S. We will talk about all the fun everyone had playing in the Snow, building Snowmen, and Slay riding.

See you soon,
Miss Ronan

Parent-Teacher Communication - Helping Children Succeed in School - University of Illinois Extension

Parent-Teacher Communication - Helping Children Succeed in School - University of Illinois Extension

Parents,
This article is about how essential parent school communication is. They do not seem to have an online communication system though. Online communication such as this blog makes it very simple to see what your children are doing in the classroom without the hassle of having to take out a night for conferences. Online communication is wonderful! Hope your enjoying the blog.

-Miss Ronan :)

Our letter this week is B

Parents,
Our letter of the week is B. We will be doing various activities in class using the letter B. It would be beneficial if you bring up the letter of the week to you children during dinner or whenever and practice words that stat with the letter. This will help them out greatly in class. :)



examples: Beach, baseball, boat, boy, etc.

For the Parents

I would like this to be a like that the parents can open up and it be a progress sheet type of thing. At the pre-school level we keep more of a portfolio than a grade sheet and I would like to have a link for parents to view their kids pregress.
example:

Allie' portfolio


Jack's portfolio

mary's portfolio


We could scan the childrens work and make an online portfolio for the parents to view their child's work without have thousands of papers sent home. A neat way of saving all their work.
... these would all open up and then be an interactive view of all the childrens work.

123 Count with me!

Parents: this is an excellent game for the children to play. It is great to pratice our numbers! Please let them play :)


Dora counting game

Greetings!

Welcome to my blog page! Blogging is an interactive way for parents to communicate, see what the children are doing, keep track of their children's progress, and let the kids play some fun learning games. Because the grade I am aiming for is pre-k the blog page would be more for the parents, but the kids can go onto sites and play with the parents help. Kids may also have an about me just for all the children to get to know each other.