January 2019 – Newsletter – East Greenwich
Welcome to the month of January and to 2019!!
This month we will be closed on January 1st for New Years and on January 21 for Martin Luther King day.
On Jan. 24, Child Outreach will be here to screen children that reside in Warwick and are 3 years old or older. Permission slips will soon be going out.
On Jan. 30, Mrs. Frost will be coming here and putting on two shows. The first show will be at 9:30 for the children in 3s and young 4s and the second show will be at 10:30 for the children in Pre-K, K-prep and Kindergarten. If your child is able to attend, please return the permission slip to your child’s teacher by Jan. 25.
Due to winter being upon us, on the event of a snow storm, please check WJAR channel 10, WPRI Channel 12 for school closings. You may also sign up on their websites to receive text notifications of our closings or check our facebook page. Please also make sure that your child comes to school everyday with a winter coat, hat and gloves. We will continue to take the children out to play everyday weather permitted. Please check your child’s extra clothes (that stays in their cubbies or bins) to make sure it is weather appropriate.
We would also like to welcome all our new families that have started this month. Please know that my door is always open and we welcome any suggestions. We want your experience here to always be a positive and fulfilling one.
Celebrating a staff birthday this month is Ms. Kaitlyn in Kindergarten on 1/29. Happy birthday!!
Infants:
This month we will continue to work on simple but powerful interactions to help infant brain development and making them feel secure while responding to infant smiles, coos, babbles and cries. We will also acknowledge their emotions by using words such as ” I see you smiling”. “Smiles means your happy”. We will also work on introducing early math concepts. We will be doing this by providing small tunnels or boxes for the infants to crawl through or see which objects fit in them. We will provide items for the babies to explore different textures, shapes, sizes and colors.
Family Engagement Activity: Singing familiar songs to infants promotes language development. Please let us know what your child’s favorite song is that you do at home and we will also sing it in the classroom. We will use their favorite songs as a “pick me up” or during transitions through out the day.
We would also like to welcome Calvin, Avianna, Sophia, Elorie, and Harry to our room! Happy 1st Birthday to Vincie on 1/16/18!!!!
Crawlers:
This month we will continue to work on developing trust and encouraging positive interactions. We will be working on social and emotional awareness. We will also continue to work on expanding our vocabulary and helping the children gain an awareness of how they relate to their families and community.
Family Engagement Activity: What is your favorite thing to do in the winter? Send us a picture.
Classroom Special Events: We would like to welcome Teddy, Ariana, Vincie, Brayden, and Anna to our room.
Happy 1st birthday to Vincie on 1/16/18!
Toddlers:
This month we will be working on cognitive development, attention and inhibitory control. Children’s skills increase on filtering impulses and sustaining attention on a tasks. We will work on this by sitting for a short story. In social studies, we will encourage children to gain awareness of how they relate to their family and community. Children look to caregivers for assistance, guidance and safety.
Family Engagement Activity: Bring in a picture of your family doing a winter activity.
Classroom Special Events: We would like to welcome all our new friends to our room. Happy birthday to Cooper on 1/13 and Michael on 1/30!!
Older Toddlers/Young 3s:
This month we will continue to promote children to engage in positive relationships and interactions with other children. We will do this with activities that promote being kind to others. In social and emotional development, children develop the confidence to complete an action successfully or independently. We will be working on using our words to express our emotions.
Family Engagement Activity: We have been loving our family bulletin boards. This month we are asking our families to create their own snowman and bring them in for our family Snowman Board.
Happy birthday to Abigail on 1/17, Frances on 1/20 and Domenic on 1/22!!!
3s:
This month we will be focusing on our math skills by working with patterning, shapes and one to one correspondence of familiar objects. We will also work in literacy as we work more in alphabet recognitions as well as continue practice writing our names and identifying the letters therein.
Family Engagement Activity: As we read more stories from the Gingerbread Man series, by Laura Murray, we will be creating our own Gingerbread Man to send off to families outside of our local area to see where he travels and what kind of adventures he may have.
Happy birthday to Frances on 1/20 and Domenic on 1/22!!
Young 4s:
This month we will continue to work on relationships with others. Children will be able to engage in positive relationships and interactions with other children. Children will develop an awareness of themselves as an individual with unique thoughts and feelings.
Family Engagement Activity: This will be snow much fun!! Details to follow. This month we welcome new friends to our classroom. We will review roles and work on relationships with each other.
Happy birthday to Gavin and Logan on Jan 5 and our new friend Quinn on Jan 11!!!!
Pre-K:
This month we will learn about the water cycle and it’s different stages. We will also learn about solids, liquids and gases. The children will be able to make increasingly complex observations about events in their environment. We will also talk about animals in the winter and if they hibernate, migrate or adapt. The children will also be able to understand the characteristics of and differences between their habitats and ours.
Family Engagement Activity: We will assign each child an endangered species and have them draw an idea to protect that animal. Have the children use their imagination and be creative. There is no wrong answer.
We would also like to welcome all our new friends to our classroom.
K-Prep/Kindergarten:
In Emergent Writing: the children will learn writing skills and show knowledge of writing conventions, they demonstrate an understanding of writing as a means of communication. In math: number relationships and operations, children learn to use numbers to compare quantities and solve problems.
Family Engagement Activity: Hibernations Research Question: Each child will pick a question to research about hibernation. Please help him/her fill out the sheet and return it to school once it is complete. The children will present their findings to the class. This is due on Jan. 11.
Classroom Special Events: The Mitten– on Friday, Jan. 25 at 3:00, the Kindergarten/K-Prep class will be performing a rendition of Jan Brett’s The Mitten as well as a few of their favorite winter themed songs. If you are able to attend, please RSVP to Ms. Tynicka or Ms. Kaitlyn by Wed. Jan. 23.
Happy Birthday to Everett on Jan. 1st and Tristan on Jan. 2!!!!