UPDATES: MARCH 25 – 29, 2024 and April 1 – 5 and April 8 – 12, 2024

Yay-it’s Spring! The learning experiences for the week will center on this rejuvenating season!

APRIL 1 – 5 and APRIL 8 – 12, 2024

THEME: THE BIG RED BARN

Activities in the classroom will focus on farm animals, machinery, and farm products. The learning centers in the classroom will include:
-exploring the farm animals and barns in the block area,
-playing an animal sounds Lotto game,
-reading books about farms and completing farm puzzles.
Music time experiences will include singing Old MacDonald’s Farm, I love My Rooster, I Know a Chicken, Baa-Baa Black Sheep and BINGO.

REMINDERS, REQUESTS AND OTHER INFO:

*April 15th – 19th is April school vacation week, enjoy the week!
*The April snack calendar has been sent home. Soon the May/June snack calendar
will be available to sign. This is the last snack sign up for the year! Please let
me know if you have not been able to access the snack calendar and I will sign you
up for a snack day.
*All May, June, July, and August birthdays will be celebrated at snack time in May.
Please check the snack calendar for the date of your child’s celebration if you would
like to contribute to the birthday snack.
*Summer program information will come home after April vacation week. A signup sheet will be posted on the fence at arrival time for those who would like to attend.
*The summer sessions will be held Monday thru Thursday from 9:00 – 1:00;
July 15 – 18 and July 22 – 25. The cost is $180 per child, per week, with a maximum
group size of sixteen.

SNACKS:
Monday (1) birthday celebration – Calvin
Tuesday (2) Cheerios – Austin
Wednesday (3) animal crackers – Jenna
Thursday (4) Goldfish – Jack C.
Friday (5) pretzels & raisins – Deven

Monday (8) carrots – Holly
Tuesday (9) bananas – Kaetlyn
Wednesday (10) Club crackers – Nola
Thursday (11) Veggie Stix – Lilah
Friday (12) applesauce – Billy

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March 11th – 15th and 18th – 22nd, 2024

During our focus on art, we will explore a variety of artists, their tools, supplies, and where works of art can be seen ~ we will then create some masterpieces of our own! Our featured artist this year is Jackson Pollock. Each child will create a Pollock inspired splatter painting for the Art Show.

  • Be sure to wear green on Friday, 3/15, for some St Patrick’s Day fun!

Letter of the week activities are V is for violets and W is for walrus.

March 18th – 22nd is SHARING WEEK. The children are asked to bring in an art-related item on their scheduled sharing day.

REMINDERS, REQUESTS AND OTHER INFO:

  • A Tasty Tuesday Lunch Bunch is scheduled for March 12th from 12:00 – 1:00. (Sign-ups are offered until Friday 12/8.)
  • Lunch Bunch will not be held on Friday, March 15th.
  • Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 4th for our 13th annual Art Show! More information will come home as the date nears.

SNACKS:
Monday (11) pretzels – Kelley
Tuesday (12) Goldfish – Liam
Wednesday (13) bananas – Mera
Thursday (14) apples – Kaetlyn
Friday (15) Teddy Grahams –

Monday (18) yogurt – Colin
Tuesday (19) raisins – Vera
Wednesday (20) Kix cereal – Jenna
Thursday (21) applesauce – Oliver
Friday (22) carrots – Nola

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February 26 – March 1 and March 4 – 8

Theme: THEME: READ, READ, READ

The focus of our learning experiences for these two weeks will be on popular children’s authors and illustrators. Each day we will read a variety of books by selected authors and the classroom activities will involve these books as well.

* 2/26 is a sharing week.
The children may bring in a favorite book on their scheduled sharing day. When sharing their book with the group, each child will be encouraged to talk about their book and show their favorite page.

* On Thursday and Friday, we will have fun with Dr. Seuss activities in honor of his birthday on March 2nd. This day is recognized as National Read Across America Day which many schools celebrate. At PPP we will read a selection of Dr. Seuss books and have activities planned related to the stories.

– The children may wear silly socks to school on Thursday 2/29.
– The children may wear lots of red and blue on Friday3/1.

The letter of the week activities are T is for tooth and U is for umbrella.

There is a sign-up sheet for those who would like to attend the Tasty Tuesday Lunch Bunch on March 12th.

SNACKS:
Monday (26) – birthday celebration – Colin
Tuesday (27) – cheese & crackers – Caroline & Grace
Wednesday (28) – carrots – Carly
Thursday (29) – pretzels – Kaetlyn
Friday (1) – mini bagels & cream cheese – Nolan

Monday (4) – chips & salsa – Carly
Tuesday (5) – yogurt-
Wednesday (6) applesauce – Mera
Thursday (7) Pirate’s Booty – Austin
Friday (8) sun butter & crackers – Julian

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February Weekly Updates

February 5th – 9th
THEME: RECYCLING

We will learn about the importance of recycling and also have fun painting and creating with recyclable items. This week the children will make a Valentine bag to receive Valentine cards from their classmates.

Valentine cards may be sent in any time now. The children will deliver the cards to their classmates’ bags from February 12th – 14th. They will bring the bags home on Valentine’s Day and on Thursday 15th.

February 12th – 16th
THEME: POST OFFICE AND VALENTINES

If you would like to participate and have your child bring in cards, please send in enough cards for your child’s entire group.
There are 16 Red Apples and 18 Yellow Apples.
For ease of delivery, leave the outside envelope blank; this way the children will easily be able to deliver them to each Valentine bag.

We ask that no food items be sent in with the Valentine cards.

February 19th – 23rd is school vacation week.
Enjoy the week!

February 26th -March 1st
THEME: AUTHORSThis is SHARING WEEK. The children are asked to bring in a favorite book on their scheduled sharing day.

  • The March snack calendar is now available to sign.
  • Please note: Lunch Bunch will not be held on Friday, March 15th.
  • The Yellow Apple group has started home visits with the class book buddy, Knufflebunny. All Yellow Apples will have a turn to bring Knufflebunny home for 2 nights. We are so excited and can hardly wait for our turn!
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