Themes Throughout the Year

These are the themes Miss Chelsea will be teaching throughout the year. I try and fit in some type of field trip every once in awhile. These might change a little throughout the year, but for the most part, this will be what your child will be learning about. September 2nd - September 4th: School Bells Ring **We'll be learning the rules and schedule of school** September 9th - September 25th: Gotta Be Me **Learning all about "ME" - practicing name writing and how each child is alike and different** September 30th - October 16th: Creepy Crawlies

FIELD TRIP TO THE USU INSECT LAB

**We'll be learning about all different sorts of bugs. Starting with caterpillars and butterflies and moving on through ants, worms, flies, grasshoppers and more!**

October 21st - October 30th: Halloween Time

FIELD TRIP TO THE PUMPKIN WALK

**We'll be learning about the colors, traditions, and things that happen during Halloween** November 4th - November 13th: Under the Weather **From sunny, to snowy and any weather in between, we'll be learning about it** November 18th - November 20th: Thanksgiving

NO SCHOOL NOV. 25th, Nov. 26th, AND NOV. 27TH - THANKSGIVING BREAK!!

**We'll have fun learning about turkey's, families and thankfulness, the First Thanksgiving, and we'll end with our very own Thanksgiving Celebration!** December 2nd - December 18th: It's Christmas Time

NO SCHOOL FROM DEC. 23 TO JAN. 1ST - CHRISTMAS BREAK!! School will start back up on January 6th.

**We'll be celebrating EVERYTHING CHRISTMAS!! From traditions, to Christmas trees, Christmas songs, and anything you can think of, it will be a lot of fun!!**

January 6th - January 15th: The Shape of Things

**Learning about circles, ovals, rectangles, squares, triangles, stars and hearts.**

January 20th - February 5th: Sing a Song of Opposites

**Big and little, tall and short, up and down, inside and outside...the list goes on!!**

February 10th - February 12th: Friendship and Valentines

**We'll focus on friendship for Valentines day and end with our own Valentines Day Celebration!**

February 17th - February 26th: It's Chow Time! (Food)

**We'll be learning about the different food groups. Healthy and unhealthy food and more!**

March 3rd - March 12th: Workers, Tools and Uniforms

VISIT THE FIRE STATION AND POLICE STATION FOR OUR FIELD TRIP

**We'll be learning about the possibilities of careers that we can all be when we grown up**

March 17th - March 26th: Spring Time

POSSIBLY BE VISITING THE ZOO TO SEE ALL THE NEW BABY ANIMALS

**We'll learn about the different signs of spring, baby animals and possibly have some little eggs to watch hatch into baby chicks!**

Discover and Learn News

I hope you all survived the week of no preschool, I'm really sorry about the inconvenience, but I do hope you are all ready to get going again, I know I am!! Can you believe we only have a few weeks left of preschool - about 12 to be exact!!

I've changed the scheduled units around a bit from the layout you all got at the beginning of the year.....I feel like this all rolls and fits together better. I do want to remind you that there will be no school on Thursday, April 10th because of Spring Break! I made sure this is lined up with the public school schedule so your kids can all be off together.

*March 11th - March 20th: "Spring and Easter"

*March 25th - April 3rd: "Nutrition and Manners"

*April 8th - April 17th: (remember no school on April 10th) "A Dinosaur Dynasty"

*April 22nd - May 1st: "Folktales"

*May 6th - May 15th: "Five Spectacular Stories"

*May 20 - 29th: "Beach Week" Our celebration water day will be the last day of school, Thursday, May 29th.

I do want to remind you that we'll be having our Family Preschool Party on Friday May 23rd. This is our Preschool graduation night where sisters, brothers, grandma's, grandpa's, and of course mom's and dad's are invited! There will be lots to do and of course an exciting night for your little graduating preschooler!! I'm also changing this day from what I have posted in the beginning of the year preschool packet since I have added another week onto preschool.

If you have any questions about any of this, feel free to contact me at anytime. I hope this last week didn't throw anyone off too bad, hopefully we can just slide right back into things. Thanks for all you do as parents and for our preschool!

*March 11th - Start our unit on "Spring and Easter". We'll start this unit talking and learning about sleepy animals that wake up in the springtime!! From bears to birds and the leaves budding open, we'll have too much fun. We'll be learning the letter Rr today.

*March 13th - Today we'll be talking about the changes in springtime and doing a lot of activities with mud! We'll have dirt cups for snack today - yummers!! Continue practicing the letter Rr.

*March 18th - "Easter" - We'll be discovering the colors of Easter and Spring, flowers, and best of all bunnies today! We'll get to eat yummy Bunny cookie treats and we'll get to learn the letter Ss today!

*March 20th - Today we'll have our own Easter celebration by dying Easter eggs, having an Easter Egg Hunt, and much more! We'll practice the letter Ss today.

*March 25th - Start our unit "Nutrition and Manners". We'll focus on Milk and Dairy today and introduce our friend 'Rude Rodney' to teach us about manners. We'll make ice cream for snack. Learn the letter Tt today.

*March 27th - We'll focus on fruits and Vegetables today making veggie people, fruit prints and eating fruits and veggies for snack. Practice the letter Tt.

*April 1st - Focus on Breads and Cereals today and don't forget about 'Rude Rodney' to help us remember how to use our manners. Learn the letter Uu.

*April 3rd - We'll learn about meat, eggs, and protein today. We'll have an omelett for snack and practice the letter Uu.

*April 10th -

No School on Thursday, April 10th because of Spring Break.

School will start back up again on Tuesday, April 15th.