Possible Half Day Tomorrow

Please read the letter below: 

Please note that if we have a half day our classroom will dismiss at 11:30

Dear Families,

With the uncertainty of tomorrow’s predicted snow and its timing, I wanted to warn you of the possibility of an early dismissal.

If Dr. Conti calls for an early dismissal of the Burlington Public Schools on Wednesday, February 7, all BECC students will be dismissed at 11:30 AM, and there will be no afternoon preschool.  Nothing is certain at this time, however, I wanted to give you time to make preparations if needed.  At this time, Dr. Conti is watching the weather and will make a decision when he has more information about the track of the storm.

Thank you,

Deborah Clark, Director, BECC

Pictures from our Snow Unit

We conducted a snow experiment.  We had 3 bowls filled to the top with snow.  One we placed in the freezer, one we placed in an insulated container, and one we left on a tray in our classroom.  We made predictions of what we thought was going to happen.  

 Ice Fishing for words and Snowman Bowling

How many counters can you fit in each mitten??

Finding letters on "snowballs" to spell a word

Community Unit Week 1 and 2 (Feb. 5-9 and Feb. 12-16)

Upcoming Classroom Happenings:

Our class will be distributing Valentine Cards on Feb. 14. I will be sending home a list and directions of how to prepare the cards. Your child can pick inexpensive cards at the store(no food please) or make homemade cards from home. More information will go home Monday of next week.

Week 1

Books This Week:

Good-Bye Curtis

A Pocket for Corduroy

Concepts This Week for Unit:

-My address

-What is a community

-Different communities children belong to

Small Groups For This Week:

-Writing- We will be creating a letter book by writing uppercase letters using proper HWT formations by matching the beginning sound of pictures on socks to create a “pair”.  (This activity may take 2 small groups to complete)

-Math-Weighing- We will be using scales to weigh different packages. We will compare their weight first by estimating which is heavier by feeling it then we will use a scale to see which package is heavier and lighter.  We will then put them in size order from the lightest to the heaviest.

-QR Code Reading Letter Activity- We will be scanning QR codes using Ipads to reveal an animal. We will listen to the beginning sound of the word and write the letter we hear from a HWT model

-Writing -We will be writing a journal entry about where we live.  We will be reinforcing our addresses.  Ask your child about their address.  This is something we have been working on.  

-Language- We will be sequencing pictures to retell the story of Corduroy

Handwriting Activities

Letter / Handwriting Small Groups (Letters this week are A and V)

Centers

Art Table: Designing pockets for Corduroy

Block Area: Building house for a community

Sensory Table: Water and bubbles (soap like in our book)

Book Area: books about community

Easel: open ended painting

Writing Table: homemade stamps

Dramatic Play: Laundromat

Puzzles and Manipulatives: tangrams and puzzles

Week 2

Books This Week:

A Pocket for Corduroy

Doctor DeSoto

Concepts This Week for Unit:

Community Workers that help us

Going to the Dentist

Pulley and simple machine exploration

Small Groups For This Week:

-Circle Attributes- We will discuss what a circle is. (ie. not corners, round,) We will objects then take about how they are circles. Then we will take clipboards and go on a circle hunt in the preschool.

-Letters to Animals- We will be writing stamps (writing beginning letters sounds) for animals.  After we write our stamps we will sort our envelopes into mailboxes.  This is to practice for our valentine cards

-Letter knowledge- We will match uppercase letters to their lowercase letters.  Each mailbox will have an uppercase letter. Then they will cut and glue the correct lowercase letter envelope to go next to the correct mailbox.

-Tooth sorting- We will cut and sort teeth by size (related to our unit book Dr. Desoto)

Letter Activity:  Focusing on Letters M and N

We will learn what these uppercase and lowercase letters look like.  

We will sort magnetic letters into groups of uppercase and lowercase groups for each letter. We will hunt for them in our names and the names of our classmates.

We will use crayons to hunt for them on our papers.  

Centers

Art Table: Painting our houses

Block Area: Blocks and community people (taking pictures to make a class book too)

Sensory Table: Brushing Teeth (bottom of soda bottles to look teeth and toothbrushes)

Book Area: books about community

Easel: open ended painting

Writing Table: markers

Dramatic Play: Chinese Takeout Shop( Happy Chinese New Year)

Puzzles and Manipulatives: simple machines(ramps, pulleys)

Snow unit (week 5) January 29-February 2)

Week 5

Books This Week:

Stella: Queen of the Snow

The Snowy Day

Concepts for the Week:

-How does snow melt?

-How can we keep snow from melting? (insulation & refrigeration)

Small Groups For This Week:

-Snowglobe letter game.  We will look pull a letter out of a bag.  Then we will identify and label the letter.  We will search in a snowglobe for the letter.  When we find it, we will use a Qtip to apply white paint with glue on it. Then we will sprinkle glitter on the letter. This is to strengthen our alligator fingers.  

-January Self Portraits

-Exploring Different Size Mittens- We will cut and place mittens in size order

-”Subtracting” Snowman- We will take turns rolling a number cube.  We will label the number we land on then count that many objects.  Then we will take one object away.  Then count the set again to show how we “subtract” and then we will record our numbers on our papers.

-Stella in the Snow- We will be creating snowy scenes with a story character.  Then we will paint on Epsom salt.

-Snowman bowling- We will build a snowman using white blocks.  Then we will roll a “snowman” to knock it down.  We will take turns building the snowman for our friend to have the next turn.  

Journaling- We will write in our journals about snow

Handwriting

We will be continuing a program called Handwriting Without Tears. Its focus is on letter formation and letter awareness. This program reinforces proper grasp and trying to strengthen fine motor muscles. We will continue to work on diagonal lines.  We will be sorting and coloring our papers to find the letters A and V.

Centers

Art Table: Snowy Scenes /Patriot headbands

Block Area: Igloos with blocks

Sensory Table:  Arctic Animals (water and land animals)

Book Area: books about weather

Writing Table: Survey Questions

Dramatic Play: Hot Cocoa Shop

Puzzles and Manipulatives: puzzles

Snow Unit January 22-26

Books This Week:

Tracks in the Snow

Katy and the Big Snow

The Mitten

Let's Talk About It

-Maps

-Stuffing a mitten (We will add blocks to a mitten and try to predict how many blocks it will hold.  This will be related to our unit book The Mitten)

-Absorb and Repel Concepts

-Animals that migrate and hibernate

Handwriting

We will continue a program called Handwriting Without Tears. It focuses is on letter formation and letter awareness. This program reinforces proper grasp and trying to strengthen fine motor muscles.

-We will be working on letters R and K

Small groups

-More and less books with Katy and the Big Snow

-Beginning sounds- We will trace and then listen to the beginning sound we hear in words on a snowman. We will give each snowman the correct hat based on the sound we hear in each word.

-Snowman "Adding"- We will roll a number cube and use 1;1 correspondence to count the correct number of snowballs(cotton balls). Then we will add "one more' and say how many. We will record our answers on our papers.

-Sorting migration and hibernation animals

-Sorting animals in the mitten and not in the mitten

-Map of our school- In our unit book, a map showed us where Katy the snow plow went to help the community in a blizzard. We will use a map of our preschool and find each location in a large group special activity. We will record on our maps everytime we find a new location.

Centers

Art Table: Shaving Cream and driving cars like a snow storm

Block Area: Using "snowplows" in a snow storm

Sensory Table: ping pong balls with letters that spell snowball. We will try to find all the letters.

Book Area: books about weather

Easel: Snow pictures (white paint on blue paper)

Writing Table: Read the room and find the hidden letters

Dramatic Play: LL Bean shop

Puzzles and Manipulatives: matching different mittens

Kindergarten Information Night

Burlington Public Schools Kindergarten Information Night

The Burlington Public Schools will be holding an information night for parents of incoming kindergarten students. At this informational evening, you will learn about what a typical day in kindergarten looks like. We will review registration procedures, kindergarten screening, and overall kindergarten readiness. There will also be time allotted for Q & A. Please join us for this important evening.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
(snow date - January 18, 2018)
Burlington High School Auditorium 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Please note: this evening is for ​parents/guardians only​

Singing for Administrative Council Today

Check out this link: Our class performed our Gingerbread Man Musical for the member of the administrative council today.  They were very excited to sing for the "big boss". (aka Dr. Conti)
https://www.instagram.com/burly_schools/