Happy Easter from all of us!!

The Perfect Easter

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter holiday. It's a time to remember how much Jesus loves us. We also welcomed spring and look forward to all the spectacular sights and sounds the season brings. Registration for all programs is still open for the 2018-2019 school year.

Preschool Two Day

"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child." - Dr. Seuss.

March brought us a Seuss-sensational time celebrating "Read Across America" in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday. The children made "Cat in the Hat" hats, thing 1, 2 or 3 hats, and a one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish craft. We also incorporated a little counting into our snack time by counting goldfish on our one fish, two fish place mats. We completed our Dr. Seuss celebration by reading some of his most popular books, such as the Cat In The Hat , One Fish, Two Fish,Red Fish, Blue Fish and I Am Not Going To Get Up Today . The children also came to school with a Wacky hair and wearing their favorite PJs.

The children were introduced to the letters R and S this month. We learned R makes a "Rrr" sound as in rainbow and S makes a "Sss" sound as in snowman. The children stamped their letter do-a-dot worksheets, working on their fine motor skills. The children also glued their letter worksheets onto construction paper along with the correlating pictures. Each child then used their working finger to trace the letter. The children made a Rainbow and a Squirrel for our letter crafts. Coloring our letter books and color of the month books help the children to develop a firm crayon grip. The children were introduced to the color blue, number 7 and the shape oval this month. The children counted and glued 7 blue ovals onto an oval worksheet.

Learning through song and play is what we do best. Dancing around to our blue song, holding up our blue ovals, helps us to remember an oval is round and long like an egg. We also learn the sky and blueberries are the color blue. Playing our shape game has helped us learn all our shapes on our carpet. Building our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree is helping with letter recognition. Singing along to our number songs and counting the numbers on our calendar and number cards are helping with number recognition.

March was also a month of hunting for Easter eggs, talking about the Easter bunny, but most importantly learning about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. During chapel, Father Rick read God Gave Us Easter. Father Rick taught the children that we can see signs of God's Easter plan all around us and how the Easter egg represents Jesus's empty tomb. We sang along with Father Rick to the songs "The B-I-B-L-E" and "Zacchaeus".

The children got to go on their very own Easter egg hunt, hunting for three eggs each to put into their bag. We hope everyone enjoyed their spring break and look forward to a little bit of April showers!

Ms. Michele

Ms. Carole

Preschool Three Day

The students enjoyed all the snow March brought and told stories of building snowmen and sleigh riding!!

We began the month celebrating Dr. Seuss. We enjoyed reading his books, doing crafts that correlate with them, and dressing up to match the theme of the day. We read Fox in Socks and wore our craziest socks, we read Wacky Wednesday and made our hair wacky. For One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish , we ate yummy blue Jell-o with Swedish Fish. We even wore our pajamas to school and read I’m Not Going to Get up Today. Our Dr. Seuss weeks are some of our favorite of the year, and this year was no different.

During March, the students were introduced to the letters R, and S. We completed crafts including R is for rabbit and S is for seal.

Our lessons centered on the theme of the Dr. Seuss book we were reading for that day. We completed patterns of characters from the pages of Dr. Seuss. We sorted colored gold fish and graphed them to see how many red, blue, yellow, green and orange fish we had. We made Oobleck after reading about Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

We learned to form the letters M and N and completed a shapes review workbook page.

During Math, we covered shapes with other shapes first estimating our answer and then counting it out.

To celebrate Easter, we created a bunny bag, beautiful fabric Easter egg made of colorful fabric strips and went on an Easter egg hunt.

We look forward to spring and getting outside to enjoy the playground and beautiful weather.

Amanda Rabolli

Carole Cleary

Preschool Five Day

March came in like a lion and out like a lion....we are still waiting for spring!! Even with all the snow days, our students worked hard and enjoyed all the festivities.

We had a lot of fun celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday - making our Cat in The Hats, eating blueberry jello with Swedish Fish, and enjoyed playing with the green Oobleck!!

Miss Susan from the Tuxedo Library stopped by to read Green Eggs and Ham and did a craft with the children.

The children had lots of fun during our Easter egg hunt in Bentley Hall.

Word Time : We finished our chapter Play and started the chapter Social Behavior. With the help of Squawker, the students learn the pronunciation, spelling, and definition of words.

Math: The children finished their I Know My Numbers - #7 and #8 booklets. We continued our chapter on Geometry. Students used their Mix and Make Shapes and Wood Pieces to identify and describe Circles. They used their Mix and Make Shapes and 4 Squares More Squares pieces to identify and describe Rectangles.

Penmanship : The students used their Letters and Numbers for Me books to continue writing their lowercase letters, words, and sentences.

Language and Literacy : We continue our chapter on Comprehension. Children learn to differentiate between real and make-believe stories. They make personal connections with stories. They retell a story with pictures to determine comprehension skills.

PATHS: Along with our PATHS animals, the objective of our lessons was getting children to understand the process of making good choices about their behavior.

Chapel : We enjoyed Father Rick's visits to our classroom on Wednesdays to read to us, sing with us, and pray with us. Thank you Father Rick!!

We all look forward to the sights, sounds, and warmth of springtime. May God bless all creatures big and small.

Ida Payne

Cynthia Dinan