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!

Week 18

This week will be our summative week of our Balanced and Healthy Choices unit. We will create a healthy heart to show the ways we stay healthy as well as our own My Plate with choices from the 5 food groups.

In literacy we will continue reviewing alternate vowel sound spellings (vowel teams) ai, ay, ee, ea, ie, y, ue, oa. Our sight words this week are: do, you, have. We will celebrate all of the Super Reader Strategies we have learned with a Super Reader Party on Wednesday, January 22nd at 2pm. Students can come dressed as their favorite super hero or just with a superhero accessory like a mask or cape. Parents are welcome to join us in this celebration!

In maths, we are continuing to look at balance and equality. As always, we are working on number sense - especially composition of numbers as a foundation for understanding place value.

Reminders: 
Zipper folders will come home with a book to read and a reading log, please return the books the next day.

Wednesday: Club Introduction Assembly 22nd January, 9.00am
We will be introducing our new club offers soon for the second semester.
Please come along to our assembly and you can see an introduction to each club by the club teacher and ask them any questions you may have!

Thursday: Library books and PE clothing

Friday: PE clothing

Have a great week!

Super Reader Party! (date change)

We have been working very hard to learn some strategies to become Super Readers! To celebrate all of our hard work, we are going to have a super-hero party! Please have your child come to school as a super hero (just a cape or a mask is fine - or a full costume, if they are comfortable!) on Wednesday the 22nd. I plan to have juice, popcorn, and fruit for the students. You are welcome to join us also! 

When?     Wednesday, January 22nd ~2:00pm
Where?    Preschool classroom

The students can share a book with you or a friend to show their reading powers, then we will have snacks and watch a show to celebrate!

Yoga!

Please have your child bring a towel to use as a yoga mat on Monday (the 13th) as we will be exploring balanced and healthy habits through yoga!

Thank you and Have a Great Weekend!

Happy New Year

Hello Preschool Families!

Hope you enjoyed the winter break and are excited to come back to school tomorrow! I am so excited to see your smiles, hear about your adventures, and start learning again with you!

Remember: tomorrow is Library day! Please bring back your readers AND library books.

Also, tomorrow is PE! Please come dressed in clothing that is easy to move in and with warm layers for when/if you are outside.

Lastly, please bring the winter break journal you created to help you tell us about your adventures.

See you tomorrow!

Ms. Shirai

Happy Holidays!

Thank you to all the parents yesterday for making the last day of school a special celebration! The students loved making, selling, and buying goods at the Christmas Market and were so excited to perform AND receive a gift from Santa! Thank you again for all you do for our students and school. 

News:

We just got word that Preschool will have 2 new students starting in January! I would usually prepare the students for this, but as we are on break, if you could let your child know to please be extra welcoming and a good model showing our routines to the students, that would be very helpful. 

Library Books and Oxford Reading Tree Books:

Please read and reread as much as you like over the break. We will have library the first day back: Thursday, Janauary 9th so please bring the books to return then.  

What can we do to help us remember our learning over the holiday?

Over the Winter Break, please continue to talk about healthy habits, choices and consequences. 

Also, please have your child create a journal about their winter break. The only requirements are:

1. they do their best to write words using their knowledge of letters and sounds, and
2. there are pictures (photographs or hand-drawn).

It is most helpful if they do this a little at a time rather than all at once at the end so maybe writing a page every other or every two days. We will share these journals when we return in January so please have them read them to you a day or so before coming to school to be sure they remember what they wrote.

Other ways to practice writing: A letter to Santa! Thank you notes for gifts!

Finally, (of course) READ READ READ! They were given a short book for independent reading (Santa's Workshop) yesterday. Being read to, reading with you, and independently reading are all the best things they can do!

Thank you again and always and wishing you and yours a very Happy Holiday!

Half Week & Christmas Market!

Have you been tracking your daily health habits? Please be sure to bring back the tracking sheet you got last Tuesday this Tuesday so we can reflect on our habits.

This week in Preschool we begin to explore what "balanced" means. We will also be getting ready for the Christmas Market by making our items to sell and decorations for our booth. We hope you will come see all of our hard work on Wednesday! Don't forget your child will have a 15 minute selling time at the Preschool booth with me then have a chance to wander the market with you from 10-11am. The schedule was sent in a previous email as I don't publish student names on the blog. The schedule is as follows:

9:-00 - 9:30  Ground floor hallway  Market Set-up PTA Set up for Breakfast Buffet

9:30 - 9:50 Classroom  Snack Time / Play 

9:50 - 10:00 Playground Welcome and Choir: Opening Song

10:00 - 11:00 Ground floor hallway Market open PTA Breakfast Buffet Opens

11:00 - 11:15 Ground floor hallway Pack up 

11:15-11:30 Transition / Break 

11:30 - 12:45 Multi-purpose Room PROGRAMME

Presentation:

   Grade 4 - Deck the Halls (5 mins)

   Pre Kindergarten (Anita) - Snowflake (5 mins)

   Kindergarten (Azusa) - Nikolaus Song / Jingle Bell (7 mins)

   Preschool - The Ha! Ha! Holiday Song (5 mins)

   Grade 1 - 10 Little Elves / S-A-N-T-A  (7 mins)

   Grade 2 (Lance) - Bell (5 mins)

   Grade 3/4 - (5 mins) 

   We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Everyone)

   Santa gift giving 

   12:45 - 1:00 Dismissal

Don't forget we will be offering the Flu Vaccination Tuesday at school!

17th December 2.30pm - 3.30pm

Dr. Adachi from Dr. Masatoki Adachi Clinic at Shin-Kobe will come to DSKI to administer flu vaccinations to interested people. The cost of the vaccination is 4,000 yen. 

To sign up: Flu Vaccination at DSKI Google Form

Have a great week!