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On Friday 21.06.2013 we will have Hina's birthday party and Hina's and Ola's goodbye party. More sweets to come...:)

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Revised: April 10th 2013



Revised April 2013 Welcome after the Easter Break. During this 'waiting for Spring' period we are focusing on preparations for our new Unit of Inquiry and explore various activities we either like or are good at. We ask questions like: What is my favourite school activity? What can I do? What I am good at as a student? As soon as the weather is nice we will try to visit our nearby park to see if we like walking and running and looking for Spring signs:) Wishing everyone a yummy Fun Food Friday!  Pre-K team

Tomorrow - Thursday 28th March we will join the Easter Egg Hunt at 11:45. Please join us at that time and help us to make sure every Pre-K child has 5 eggs maximum :). Please make sure that Your child is under your supervision.


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 * PRE-K NEWSLETTER January 30th, 2013 **



Thank you very much, Dear Moms, for showing the spirit of winter and helping us to enjoy snow and good weather. Dear Parents, Despite many students and teachers being a bit not too well recently, we managed to do a lot of good learning and move on in our Unit of Inquiry inquiries. Having explored what it means to ‘**work**’ and have a responsibility we started talking about what materials we use when we **play**, what things when we work and what materials when we **learn**. Our explorations and their results may be observed in our classroom. You are very welcome to have a look. When we are ready, we are going to carry some interviews around our school campus to Since Tuesday, 29th January we are focusing on a new song and transdisciplinary **thinking skills.** We learn to **analyze** pictures and situations trying to figure out ‘what is missing’. The underneath song was a good start to our learning: A Chubby Little Snowman (Itsy Bitsy Spider) //> A chubby little snowman// //> Had a carrot nose// //> Along came a rabbit// //> And what do you suppose?// //> That hungry little bunny// //> Looking for his lunch// //> Ate the snowman's carrot nose// //> Nibble, nibble, CRUNCH!// Please enjoy singing it at home together.

Related concepts: **Form** – what is it? our 100 day chart (Numbers 60-69)  * counting forwards and backwards 0-10 and 10-0. *addition 1-10 *2D and 3D geometrical shapes and their names & features (circle, triangle, trapezoid, rectangle and sphere, cube, cylinder, prism and cone). || * revise our **sound /sh/ and /ch/ comparing and contrasting them.** Trying to create words we know using (o, u, a) sounds.
 * During school week 17-18**
 * We are learning:**
 * UOI&Learner Profile || Math || Language Arts&ESL || Specialists(music, Art, P.E.) ||
 * We are **principled, we know the rules and learn to ask questions and solve problems**
 * UOI: **//We play, learn and work in school. //
 * Causation **- why do we do that?
 * Responsibility **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">- what is our job? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">* sorting objects by colour, shape, size and our own categories.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The daily Five **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">read to a partner, work on writing words you know and listen to a <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> story activities. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Art: Week 17-18

Unit : Shapes and Colours 2

Drawing different shapes and colors from everyday-life. How many different houses do you know? How do you draw the houses, and how do you colour them?


 * appreciation: Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition

from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

1) What is the still-Life? Making a camera before starting learning about still life.

2) Still life 2 : Flower still life

3) Observational Drawing ; Hand drawing.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Music **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: feelings hidden in sounds – performer and audience etiquette. Playing percussion instruments. Classical music as a background for our stories.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">P.E. **__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Unit 2: Gross Motor Skills – __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Directions and Pathways: using our senses to find a way.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **PYP Strand:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -Athletic Activities

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Learning outcomes:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -develop a range of gross motor skills and work on cognitive motor development

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Description:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -Students will participate in various activities which will help them develop their cognitive skills and perception of space ||

>Reminders: FLU SPREADING PRECAUTIONS Dear Parents, Let’s try and work together to fight this flu away! Thank You,
 * Please make sure students wash hands before they eat anything at home(after school time)
 * If a child is tired in the morning and you see he or she is weaker – please stay at home. In the case please measure your child’s temperature after 12:00.
 * If your child has a temperature over 37.5 Celsius scale he/she will be sent home. Please visit a doctor if necessary. Please bring a doctor’s certificate that your child is healthy before coming back to school.
 * We go out for two Recesses every day. There is no possibility for children to stay inside during those breaks due to teacher duties and campus meetings.

On behalf of Pre-K teaching team Grazyna Molik-Kubak ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Dear Parents, Happy New Year! Welcome after the break! We would like to welcome four new students who joined us in January 2013 Hyeok and Min Yoon (Boys), Hina Sato and Sumin Choi (Girls). All the students seem to be adapting fairly quickly to our school life and we would like to wish them a happy stay in Pre-Kindergarten. In January we will continue exploring and answering questions which will help us with our Unit of Inquiry : **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">School is a work, play and learn together place. ** Our first **question** this week is: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
 * PRE-K ** NEWSLETTER, 14th January 2013
 * What it means to work ? (our jobs and chores at home and classroom responsibilities) **

HOMEWORK For Parents and Students

(put shoes nicely, lay a bed, clean a plate, help passing cutlery, listen to mommy after first time, ….) ………………………………………………………………………….
 * 1) PLEASE **CHOOSE** ONE LITTLE **JOB/ CHORE** A STUDENT CAN DO **AT HOME**.
 * 1) Fill in the home job **form**
 * 2) MAKE SURE A STUDENT DOES THE JOB – ON **SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY**
 * 3) TAKE A PHOTO/ DRAW A PICTURE TOGETHER (you may mail it: molik-kubak@fem.org.pl )
 * 4) BRING IT ON **WEDNESDAY** WE WILL MAKE A DISPLAY FOR EVERYBODY

I chose to do...................................................................................... I remembered to do the job on (circle please) Sunday Monday Tuesday ||  ||
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 * PRE-K ** NEWSLETTER, December 10th



Dear Parents,

Thank You for joining us for the **WINTER WOW** and helping us to enjoy the festive atmosphere. For the last week before the winter break we will be focusing on our fine motor skills development Observing the surrounding snowy world and designing and creating decorations which later will be coloured, cut out, and sprinkled with glitter….. We will also continue exploring and answering three questions which will help us when we start (2013, January 7th)our New Unit of Inquiry titled: The questions are: What it means to work ? What it means to play? when we learn?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">School is a work, play and learn together place. **


 * This week:**

Please make sure we have gloves and ski trousers for our Recess times as Pre-K students discovered many snow games recently…

After a regular school day we start our parent conferences at 17:30 -19:30 Parent/teacher conferences start at 13:30 and last till 16:30 SCHOOL FINISHES AT 12:25 as it is a **half-day** for students
 * Tuesday, ** December 11th
 * Wednesday, ** December 12th
 * Friday **, December 14
 * HALF DAY** FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. There will be **no school lunch** served on that day.

Dear Parents,

Pre- K students and Pre-K teachers would like to wish everyone a most enjoyable winter and Christmas break .We wish You some happy time and rest. See you back on 7th of January 2013!

15.11.2012 Regarding weeks 10 and 11 (19th -30th November): For the following weeks we will be focusing on metacognitive skills while playing and learning with Nursery rhymes. Students will be asked to summarise, reflect on and discuss what it means - to ask a **question** (by giving some examples) - to **learn** - to **play** We will be discussing what rules might be suitable for these school activities. Practising and discussing the inquiry skills is designed to encourage our children to feel more responsible of their own learning and behaviour as students. The discussions and activities levels will be adjusted to student's age and abilities. This is the moment of the school year when we put out attention to the year long Unit of inquiry: we may play and learn with Nursery rhymes of which you may have an opportunity to hear or listen to at home:)

Please have a look at our tomorrow's Newsletter (newsletters section on our WIKI and a copy on our wall) The sign up sheet for parent-teacher conferences will be posted on Monday 19th November 2012. Please choose the suitable date and time to meet. Best Regards, Mrs. Kubak

8.11 2012 Dear Parents, For the 9th week of school (12-16th November) we will be trying to revise what we have been learning for the past months as well as focus on classroom rules. We will remind ourselves about what it means to be a 'principled' person and a principled student. Please make sure we have some tiny 'jobs' at home to be responsible for so we can talk about it in the classroom:) Thank You, Mrs. Kubak

25.10.2012 Dear Pre-K Students and Parents,

This is the week when we are trying to check what we could remember from our field trips to both farms and numerous learning experiences of this **Unit of Inquiry**. Most important of our **questions** were: - whether we could get food from animals what food would that be?

- where did the animals live ? - how we can try to take care of them?

Most of our students can answer these questions really well using full sentences in English.We are especially proud of the students who are able to name some farm objects and animals despite not knowing English language before the school year started. Bravo!

Just after the Autumn break we will be giving more focus on the Year long Unit titled: //We may play and learn with Nursery Rhymes// So far we have learnt: Our new nursery rhyme: Down at the station: sounds practiced there: /t/, /ch/, /p/ The address:
 * Potatoe count
 * Sunday Monday
 * Baa Baa
 * I’d like to eat apples
 * Rainbow
 * Walking, walking;
 * Old Mc Donald,
 * Chic, Chic, Chicken
 * Apple, apple is good for me;
 * Atuttita
 * || http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio/subjects/earlylearning/nurserysongs/A-E/down_at_the_station ||  ||

__**In week 8 and 9 of school we will learn:**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> * counting forwards and backwards 0-10 and 10-0. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">*addition 1-10 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">*2D geometrical shapes (circle, triangle, trapezoid, rectangle ) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">*groupings of objects(colour, shape, a feature) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">* revise our **sound chants (a, o, e) and** trying to create words we know using( h, t, p, c, s, ch, sh, n)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">UOI&Learner Profile || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Math || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Language Arts&ESL || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Specialists(music, Art, P.E.) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">We are **communicators**; we can say ‘may I play when we want to join a game, we tell a teacher when we need something. oWe say ‘sorry’ if we made a 'mistake' and excuse me when we need some more space.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">UOI: **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">We learn and play with Nursery Rhymes //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">.: shapes, numbers and sounds. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">* lines and columns – patters of numbers on our 100 day chart (Numbers 36-40)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The daily Five **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">read to a partner, work on writing words you know and listen to a <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> story activities. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Art: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Week 7-9 **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Unit 5: The Autumn leaves and autumn colors. **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1) The Autumn trees; using dried autumn leaves and water color paints. **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2) The pumpkins / Orange and Black **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3) Leaf prints **

**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">4) UN Day design drawing -Hunger and Famine ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">P.E. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Unit 2: Gross Motor Skills __
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Music **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">: feelings hidden in sounds – performer and audience etiquette. Playing percussion instruments. Classical music as a background for our stories.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **PYP Strand:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -Athletic Activities

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Learning outcomes:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -develop a range of gross motor skills

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> **Description:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -Students will participate in various activities which will help them with their gross motor skill development (focus on throwing). ||

2.10.2012 Please have a look at our current newsltetter:

26.09.2012 UOI:‘ WHAT FOOD WE MAY GET FROM ANIMALS’ FIELD **TRIPS** INFORMATION

Dear Parents, 26th October 2012 We are very lucky that our current Unit of Inquiry can be supported by two field trips. 3.X.2012 The **first** one - our field trip to a vegetable and sheep&chicken farm will give us some hands-on experience of what a farm is, what are farm activities and what are farmer’s responsibilities and joys. We will pat a black sheep, taste some pancakes, get some vegetables and hunt for a real egg. The cost of the first field trip is **60** PLN (thank you for the timely payments so we can order a bus in advance) 10.X.2012 The **second** one - we are lucky to be invited to a milk farm which is owned by a friend of our school. It will allow children to pat a real cow, milk it and observe feeding of calves. We will be given some milk so as we are able to experiment with some in-school cooking afterwards J The cost of the second field trip is **45** PLN. Should you have any questions please use our communication notebooks or contact me directly.

Please **fill in** and **sign** the big form of permission for both field trips. (two forms).

Best Regards Pre-k teacher team: Mrs. Kubak, Mrs. Jo, Mrs. Sally ........................................................................................................................................................................... 25.09.2012 pages revised: home page, Language Arts page.

UOI NeWS: Pre-K students learn and revise their unit related **vocabulary** really quickly and their school adaptation process goes well so October seems to be a good time for experiencing some farming and ...milking.:)

Our 'Food from ANIMALS' field trips in October:

3th October 2012 - Vegetable and sheep farm (already advertised:) 10th October 2012 - MILK& cows farm ( permission forms will be distributed next week)

Wishing everyone a good week Mrs. Kubak .......................................................................................................................................................................

Dear Parents , Please have a look at our Pre-K news:

21.09.2012

13.09.2012

Thank you very much for coming and listening to our presentations last night. We hope you could find it useful. Please let us know should you have any further questions or concerns or even:) if you are happy with what is happening on Pre -K land:)

Thank you for all the comments and kind words we have received so far. We do appreciate you support in helping our children to develop their talents and skills.

Please remember to have a look at our Pre-K Newsletter which will be posted both on Pre-K wall and on the Pre-KWIKI page - Newsletters section

Best Regards Pre-K teacher team

11.09.2012

Dear Parents,

We would like to say that We are looking forward to meeting YOU tomorrow - as advertised - during a Parent Information Night!

18:00 - 18:30 - we will meet with the specialists 18:30 -19:30 - Let's meet in our Pre-K classroom

P.E. reminder - please start bringing T-shirts for PE! AS WE ARE GETTING BETTER AND BETTER AT CHANGING:)

Best Regards, Pre-K Teacher Team

6.09.2012

The first week of school is almost over and we would like to say thank you to all of our Pre-K parents for supporting us an helping their childrent to adapt to the new environment.

Next week we will be attending school for a full day 8:00-14:40 Please make sure you brought: - a sleeping blanket - or a pillow your child likes so our little ones felt safe and home like when they have their rest time after lunch and Recess. The weather may be a bit cooler these days so please make sure you brought some warmer clothes we may put on if it get colder.

Have a happy and good weekend Mrs. Kubak and Pre-K teacher team

30.08.2012 The first Newsletter has been posted on PRE-K WIKI page! Please have alook for important dates and events:)

Mrs. Kubak

22nd August 2012 Dear Students and Parents,

Welcome to the excitements of a New School year 2012-2013! We shall all meet at 9:45 the Opening Day Ceremony on Monday, September 3rd (Zielinskiego Campus). After the ceremony we will all move to Beyzyma Campus where Pre-K students will strat their school year on their own - lining up at the main door and 'studying hard' :) till 12:00. Due to the adjustment period requirements during the first week of school Pre-K student day starts at 8:20 and finishes at 12:00 when the students are picked up by their parents.

Looking forward to meeting both 'old' and 'new' students,

On behalf of Pre-K teaching team Grazyna Molik-Kubak PYP Pre-K teacher