Newsletter+January+23,+2012

News, Recently, we have been working on our cooperation skills and group work. Last week we managed to create a **reading record tree** to be admired on a wall (the staircase to the first floor)for the whole Beyzyma campus and form a small band to signal ‘drop everything and read’ activity and lead an assembly. Pre-K Reading Logs prove that we are very good at reading and listening to stories J the Literacy Tree with our reading goal.: 1500 books to be read by 14th February.We register the books we read by adding leaves and snowflakes with the titles.
 * NEWSLETTER **
 * PRE- KINDERGARTEN vol. 17 **
 * http://prekwis.wikispaces.com/ **

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Dear Parents, **Thank You for volunteering to help us with the field trip!** This week we are going to explore our immediate neighbourhood: 26th January - our neighbourhood field trip. We will try to answer 3 questions:

- **what a neighbourhood is? **


 * - How can we be safe outside of school? **


 * - How can we use our neighbourhood well? **

Time: 8:35 - 10:10

8:20 We start a day as usual, waiting at the school door.We change shoes and undress with Mrs. Sally. A group of parent volunteers will take some sports equipment and go to the park down the road to prepare two sport activities ( if possible: Ritva (Silia’s mom), Clara (Ceciclia’s mom), Yun Mi (DaJin’s mom) and NoSook (Chae Won’s mom)). 8:35 students prepare to the field trip. We need 3 parents to help us with walking safely. Would it be possible for Jeongu’s mom, Suwon’s mom and Kuba’ mom to stay with us and walk along both sides of our group? We change and set off. During the field trip Pre-K students will: > The parent volunteers are asked to contact the class teacher in order to discuss the trip organisation:) Important dates:
 * Procedure:**
 * 1) Take some photos of our neighbourhood. Use the related vocabulary.
 * 2) Visit a shop to buy a healthy snack (fruit we may share e.g. three oranges)
 * 3) Visit the park and learn how we can play there
 * 4) Come back safely
 * January **


 *  - 27th January - Jack's birthday party ****


 *  - 31st January - Daiki's goodbye party **
 * 18th January- February 14th WIS LITERACY WEEK **
 * - ****29th PTA Family Fun Day **
 * February **

- A new student, **Mara ** will join us in February, 2012. - **17th NO SCHOOL – Teacher only day** - **14th PTA Bake Sale** - **18th Start of WINTER BREAK**

Pre-Kindergarten Physical Education
 * NEWS from the Specialists**

Since coming back from the Christmas holiday student have started their Perceptual Awareness and Motor Development Unit. In this unit they will participate in various activities will help to develop their perceptual awareness and motor development. They will develop their spatial awareness, body awareness, directional awareness and balance throughout this unit. Recently students have been focusing on spatial awareness and doing a great job of demonstrating that they understand personal space vs. general space. If you would like to know more about this unit please go to the link below on the WIS PE wiki page and you can find information under the date of January 12:

http://wis-pe.wikispaces.com/Pre-Kindergarten

Pani Asia, the Polish teacher :

Pre-K We ale learning names of clothes, so soon we will know what we are wearing - clothes vocabulary (hat, scarf, jacket, socks, gloves etc.)

 We are also reading a book where a monkey (małpa) and a tiger (tygrys) introduce the colors.

We are also constantly playing games using colors and instructions connected with body movement (hands up, hands down, step forward, two steps back etc.)

Kind Regards,

Grazyna Molik-Kubak Pre-K teacher