Morning Meeting March 3rd and Sight Word Book Instructions

Hello Preschool! Uploading to YouTube issues made my morning meeting into an afternoon meeting. Hope your morning has gone well!




How to do the sight word book:

SeeSaw App

Hello Preschool!

It was so exciting to find a couple of students have tried out SeeSaw already! High-fives!

A parent let me know that SeeSaw doesn't support Draw + Record in the Safari browser. The Seesaw Class and Family apps are available on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. You can also use Seesaw on the web using a computer or Chromebook via a Chrome, Firefox, or Edge browser.

If you are using a tablet or phone, please use the app version of SeeSaw to avoid any browser difficulties. Here is the Apple App Store link.

For more information, please look here. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

Thank you!

Morning Meeting Mon March 2nd

Celebrating around the world!

We have been filling our passports in Preschool with celebration experiences from China, America, the Philippines, Germany, and France!

Hoping you all celebrate and fill your bellies today for Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras! We were so excited to eat and see how French crepes were made yesterday!

We also made masks for Mardi Gras!

This week we are also beginning to solve our STEAM problem:

We are discussing the forces of push and pull in order to solve this problem and THANK YOU for all of the supplies you provided to do this! 

Reminders:

Library Day Wednesday!

PE Thursdays and Fridays!

Upcoming:
March 2nd              (AM) Hina Matsuri at Shohei Kindergarten (cancelled by Shohei kindergarten)
                                (PM) DSKI School Photo
March 19th-29th     Spring Break!
March 30th              First Day of Swimming in PE (see supplies list below)
April 18th               110th Anniversary School Party at The Kobe Club

Swimming will be every Monday after Spring Break. Please make sure your child has the following swimming gear on their return from Spring Break:

• A waterproof bag
• Swimwear
• Swimming cap
• Towel
• Goggles (optional)
• Rash vest (optional)

How We Express Ourselves - Celebrations!

We have been digging into How We Express Ourselves through celebrations in Preschool.  We celebrated the 100th day of school, setsubun (Japanese bean throwing festival), learned about Chinese New Year, and planned and threw our own Valentine's Day celebration with students from Canadian Academy!

Thank you to the parents who have offered to share a celebration with our classroom! Our Show & Tell theme for the next few weeks will be home celebration traditions. Our families all have their personal ways to celebrate different holidays and I would like for the students to share one family celebration tradition. The next time they bring the Show & Tell bag home, please help your student share this by sending photos, a video, games, a recipe, decorations - anything to tell us about this celebration and tradition. Even better, come share this tradition with your child in our classroom! If you are not able to do this, please include some written or videoed explanation of the tradition to share to help your child. Thank you for thinking about and being ready for this when your child's turn comes!

Call for materials!
In the last week of February Carnival will be celebrated around the world: Mardi Gras in America, Fastnacht (Karneval) in Germany, etc. We will have a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) challenge in Preschool to design a colorful float for the parade! To do this, students will work with partners and design, then build their own float that they can move by pushing or pulling (without touching the float itself).

To do this, we will need your help collecting materials next week. Please send any of the
items on this list to help us complete our project:
 Cardboard
 Cardboard Boxes (Kleenex box, cereal box, shoe boxes, etc.)
 Tape
 Paper Plates
 Index Cards
 Balloons
 Construction paper
 Pipe cleaners
 Toilet paper tube s
 Craft sticks
 Straws
 Paper Cups
 Glue
 Yarn
 Paper Towel Tubes
THANK YOU!

Announcement - Schedule Change!
Our library day will be on Wednesday from this week.

Upcoming:
March 2nd              (AM) Hina Matsuri at Shohei Kindergarten
                                (PM) DSKI School Photo

100th Day of School, 3-Way Conferences and A Call for Family Participation!

Preschool has been busy tuning-in to our new unit: How We Express Ourselves! We are exploring this through the lens of celebrations around the world. Last week we made fire breathing dragons for Chinese New Year! As we continue to learn about different celebrations from around the world, we would love for your family to come and share a celebration particular to you! Please email me  if you have some time and are interested in doing this!

This week in literacy we will continue working on our How To books - writing books to teach something in steps. Our sight words are 'how' and 'are'.

In maths we are continuing to work on building number sense by breaking numbers apart and putting them back together. Also working on building foundations for place value. For the 100th day of school on Wednesday, I will ask each child to bring 100 small items from home in clear bag to display what 100 looks like. It can be anything: 100 paper clips, 100 marbles, 100 cotton balls, 100 Cheerios (cereal pieces), etc.

Thank you again for everyone who joined our Super Readers Party! A couple of you asked about the TV Show: Super Why by PBS Kids. You can stream on Netflix and PBS Kids as well as renting or buying from iTunes, Google Play, Prime Video, etc.

I also wanted to give a BIG shout out to the PTA for coming in on Friday to give Preschool a Spring Cleaning - THANK YOU SO MUCH!


I look forward to sharing your child's learning at the 3-way conferences this week!

Upcoming:
February 3rd-7th      3-Way Conferences
February 3rd            Setsubun
February 5th            100th Day of Preschool (bring 100 small items!)
February 11th          Open Day
March 2nd               Hina Matsuri at Japanese Kindergarten

Healthy Choices Snack Challenge!

Preschool has been challenged to plan and help make and pack their own snack this Friday, January 24th! Please talk with your child about what they would like to make and bring. This will be part of their summative for the Unit so the choices should be mostly theirs.

Thank you for supporting us with this!