Newsletter+October+3rd,+2011

Pre-K Newsletter vol 7. September 30, 2011 NEWS Take a **guess,** please – The bowl was filled with water. What happened to our sand soup after 3 days? The first picture gives you a hint! W e decided to make some evaporation experiments to check where the water goes…(picture on the right)

Later, we followed a complicated //experiment procedure// in order to check what SINKS what FLOATS: First we made some **hypotheses** and drew our check lists, then, we took the risk and **experimented** in groups. Thank You, for volunteering Mrs. Lee! And after that we **reflected** on what we observed: Our scientific notes!

Visual Arts NEWS: The Autumn leaves and colors //Pre-Kindergarten students created an animal using autumn leaves, crayons and paints during art class. They also tried to make different shapes such as grass, cloud, people, tree and house. Please look carefully at what they used to create an animal and how they expressed colors for the autumn.// //Mrs. Thompson// Joshua Jakub Pre-K students

From Mr. Cooper, our P.E. teacher: Pre-Kindergarten Physical Education Since the beginning of the school year students have been in their Rulesand Directions unit. They have participated in various games andactivities in which they had to listen and follow the rules and directionsin order to participate in those activities safely and correctly. Theactivity called 'Green Light, Red Light' was a favorite for most of thechildren. They were 'driving' around the gym via different locomotormovement skills (walking, running, jogging, jumping, etc&#8230;) when thegreen signal was shown. When the red signal was put up they had to stop.If they did not stop in time or if at anytime they ran into others the'police officer' would have them sit out for a minute to think about howto participate safely and correctly. In October the Pre-Kindergarten classwill be assessed on whether or not they are able to participate infamiliar activities safely and correctly, demonstrating that they are ableto listen and follow rules and directions. Also, on each Friday studentshave been participating in 'Explore Time'. For the month of Septemberstudents will be given hula hoops every Friday, the music will play for amajority of the lesson and they will spend the time exploring theirpersonal hula hoops. Many great ideas have been shown on what you can dowith a hula hoop! If you would like to see a short video of the Pre-K 3explore time then please go to the link below on the WIS PE wiki page andyou can find it under the date of September 28: http://wis-pe.wikispaces.com/Pre-Kindergarten Enjoy!!



Next week: Book:Splishy Sploshy Vocabulary: Group A: **Say** splash, run, drip, wet, dry, cool, warm, hot, cold. Group B: describe situations when water splashes, drips, etc. **Write&Spell** ‘S’ and ‘T sounds(capital and lower case)Homework: pre-writing task || Numbers 1-10; creating 3D shapes (EVERYDAY OBJECTS)..Group B: ADDITION 1-5. Finding geometrical equivalents of everyday objects( clock= a circle, notebook – a rectangle etc.) || Pre-K rules: revision:‘I listen when my teacher talks’. Sharing and cleaning up after ourselves Taking turns when **speaking and playing** Taking care of ones walking partner. good behavior points (for helping, sharing and listening to a teacher. || Numbers 1-10; ‘head&shoulders’song’in Polish and ‘wyginam smialo cialo’. **Present ation at the assembly**.Animal names and colours. Greetings and goodbyes. **Class action words** || Water& Glass music. Songs: High tones. ‘Head and Shoulders’; Jack’s wearing blue shoes…’ (student names, colours, and clothes…”Where’s thumbkin?”. Rhythm practice: recognize music which illustrates:robots, cats, rabbits, horses. || Unit Unit Four : Exploring Water and Sand 2-Wet on wet water color painting-Sand artGuisppen Archimboldo style art || Continuation:Routines for walking safely and safe play rules. Gross motor skills: Changing clothes (shoes, T-shirts and putting our bags into a P.E. chest. Revise:Personal and safe space around me. ||
 * UOI || Language Arts || Math || Social Studies || Polish || Music || Art || PSPE ||
 * We continue to discuss the properties of water. And students will be asked to make some independent experiments according to their own hypotheses. Water &glass music continues. || We revise everyday teacher requests and make some **rhymes** using the words(sit on a carpet,please, thank you etc.)

Regards, Mrs. Kubak