Newsletters to parents of First Step Petite Academy students
Here are the latest newsletters (or links to the PDF versions of the newsletters) from the teachers at First Step
JUNE 2010
INFANTS AND BABIES
TODDLERS
The month of May just flew right by! Now we are ready for the month of June with lots of warm weather! Last month we had a lot of fun making black and white collages, hand print caterpillars and painting with feet. Our favorite book we read was "Quack, Quack, Giggle."
For June our theme is Sing and Dance, along with our summer fun themes. Our puppet this month is Stacy Strawberry. Our goals are to help promote language development, provide opportunities to develop large and small muscle control and to stimulate development through hands-on active learning. Books we will be looking at are "Five Sweet Strawberries" by Megan E. Bryant, "Big Hungry Bear" by Audrey Wood and "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney. Art projects include finger painting, painting with lids and dancing finger pictures.
We also will be welcoming Miss Ashleigh and Miss Samantha who will be working with us this summer. And congratulations to Nicholas and Tristan who have moved up with Miss Amanda!
We look forward to a great summer, filled with exciting things! Don't forget your sunscreen and bathing suit each morning!
Miss Kristen & Miss Ashleigh
TWO’S
Spring is definitely in the air and summer is right around the corner. This month, we enjoyed making our room look like spring with tissue paper flowers, frogs, butterflies, kites and even a few dragonflies. We read lots of new books this month including "One Ted Falls out of bed", "Maisey Goes to the Library", "Maisey Big, Maisey Small", "Seven hungry babies", and "A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa".
We are looking forward to the summer and all of the activities we have planned including water play, blowing bubbles, throwing and kicking balls, and playing outside. This summer we will be learning about pets including cats, dogs, hamsters and even our pet fish Mario. July brings summer time activities including picnics, bugs, food and playground swings. August is all about the beach, Sun and Sand, and all our ocean friends including the fish, dolphins and crabs.
We hope everyone has a great summer and we look forward to all we have planned.
Miss Amanda and Miss Stacy
TWO AND 1/2'S
Eric Carle has been our focus in May. Eric Carle is an extraordinary writer and illustrator of children's books. The children loved learning about the firefly after reading, The Very Lonely Firefly. We even made fireflies using holiday lights and tissue paper. The children enjoyed, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and they can even tell you what a cocoon is. Children are fascinated with bugs!
The other theme was sports. The children wore they favorite team shirt (mine was the Red Sox!) We played soccer, football and basketball. They can really kick and run. It is amazing how much they can do at this young age. I believe getting our children out to play and exercise is very important.
Next month we will be putting on a performance of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, which is a famous book put to music. The book is about all the letters of the alphabet climbing up a coconut tree! Sounds funny, but the book is wonderfully illustrated and written. The book helps us to complete this important year of learning the alphabet. We have so much fun
everyday! Your children are the greatest!
Ms. Katy and Ms. Laura
YOUNG THREE’S
We had many fun activities going on in May, such as making Piñata’s for Cinco de Mayo, planting and growing Sunflowers, and painting with flower stems. A few of the themes we talked about were Gardening, the Life Cycle of Plants, and Flowers. We have also been working on recognizing our first name, the letters in it, and spelling our first name. Shapes, Colors, Letters, Numbers, and Days of the Week, the Month, and the Year have all been reviewed and a lot of progress has been seen!
In June, we will be wrapping up the end of the school year (June 11th) by reviewing and moving on to our summer camp starting June 14th. We will be going over themes such as, Insects, Fruits, Food, Flags, and Fun, Father’s Day, and To the Moon. Until the end of the school year, we will continue to do Show and Tell on Wednesday’s in Morning Meeting and will double up on the last few letters of the alphabet. The weather is nice and the children are happy to be able to enjoy fun activities on the playground again!
Please don’t forget to apply sunscreen before dropping off and we will re-apply before going outside in the afternoon. Thanks!
Miss Jill
OLDER THREE’S
May has come to a close and summer is just around the corner! During the month of May, we reviewed and finished the alphabet; identifying and counting 1-20; used manipulatives to identify the smallest, tallest, and define order; cutting; pasting; shapes; colors; and sequencing. We also continued to work on identifying different sight words and put the sounds of the letters in a word together. Our Mother’s day gifts that the children made were beautiful! We look forward to working on our Father’s day gifts in June!
We are also looking forward to some new adventures and outdoor water fun this summer! Some of the themes for the summer are:
*Patriotic Preschoolers
*Treasure Hunt
*Food, Flags, and Fun
*Big Blue Sea
*Beach Week
*Sea Creatures
*Young Artists
We will continue to reinforce the alphabet, counting, cutting, and pasting, as well as other fine and gross motor skills!
We will no longer have Show-n-Tell on Wednesdays during the summer. Thanks for helping your children find things that begin with the letter of the week. We all enjoyed seeing what the children found around the house!
We have three June Birthdays:
*Ryan L-June 7th
*Kate H-June 8th
*Eric L-June 8th
Ms. Sue
FIVE’S
Monthly Theme: Graduation
A final greeting from Miss Ashleigh's class! I'm still in awe of how quickly the year has passed. For the last two weeks in June we will be reviewing what we have learned throughout the year as well as discussing one of my favorite authors, Leo Lionni. I have enjoyed having each child in my class and look forward to seeing everyone at graduation on June 9.
May 31- June 4: The classic works of Leo Lionni
June 7- June 11: Our Fabulous Fathers and a year end review
