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It’s springtime in Preschool, and at Peirce that means our annual pilgrimage to the Zoo is upon us!!! Our big trip is coming up this Thursday, April 25th!!! Some reminders…Please do NOT bring any backpacks to school that day! Make sure to pack your child’s lunch in the brown paper lunch bag that we will be provided to you on Wednesday. We will be going RAIN OR SHINE, so please dress your little one appropriately! 

AM Class: Please arrive at our normal time 8:00 a.m.

PM Class: Please arrive to our classroom at 8:45 a.m.

We’ve got our safari binoculars and visors ready for our trip! Hip hip hooray for the Lincoln Park Zoo!!!

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Last week in room 121 we began our month long study on animals we can see at the Lincoln Park Zoo. This is to prep us for our visit to the zoo at the end of this month. We decided to focus our studies on Safari & Jungle Animals. Each class voted on the two animals they want to study the most about. Our AM class chose Snakes and Lions, and our PM Class chose Gorillas and Lions! Lots of learning has taken place over the past week. Ask your child what he/she knows about our animals of study! The children are little sponges right now soaking up all the information! Check back for photos weekly!

Last week, students dug deeper into learning more about cars! First we created a KWL Chart to determine what they knew about cars, and what they wanted to learn more about cars. Through guiding their interests into the activities from last week, we painted, sculpted, and designed our own cars, began our “driver license” process, watch an actual short video of cars being made in a plant, (it takes 16 hours on average to make one car), and we explored different types of license plates with a crayon rubbing activity! The children really got into our week with learning all about cars! Pictures to follow soon…left the camera cord at school! 

This week….TRAINS!!! Choo-Choo!!! 

PS…Tuesday, January 22nd I will be sending home the 4th Backpack Project activity!!! Please check your child’s folder!!!

***DUE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES, WE WILL NOT BE GOING OUTSIDE FOR RECESS ON TUESDAY AND POSSIBLY WEDNESDAY. PLEASE BUNDLE UP YOUR LITTLE ONE THIS WEEK!!! ***

Attention PreK Families,

In the past, we have had the Little Linguistics Academy come into our school to offer Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and French to the Preschoolers in between the AM/PM sessions. I was informed late last week that due to low enrollment in the Spanish class, there might not be a Spanish class offered this spring for the Preschoolers. 

If you are waiting to turn in your enrollment forms on Tuesday, please do not wait! Please call the Little Linguistics Academy by tomorrow to let them know of your interest. We want to  keep these opportunities for our students at our school, but they will only stay if there is interest. My biggest worry is that they will take on another school that is interested. PLEASE let the Little Linguistics Academy know of your interest by emailing them at angel@littlelinguistsacademy.com

Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful winter break with your preschooler! There were a lot of environmental changes that happened over the course of thirteen days. There was snow, sleet, rain, it got a lot COLDER, and now it really is WINTER!!!

Now that it is “officially” winter, I wanted to remind all the preschool families that we do go outside everyday unless it’s raining, sleeting, freezing temperatures, or high winds in the winter time. PLEASE make sure your child comes to school everyday with boots, A CHANGE OF SHOES or SLIPPERS to put on once in the classroom, gloves/mittens, hat, scarf, warm coat, etc… If there is lots of snow on the ground, and you would like for your child to play in the snow while we are outside, you can have them wear their snowpants as well. Oh what fun we will have putting on our winter wear!!! Don’t forget to label their items!!! 40 preschoolers times 8+ items each is a lot of keep track of. 

Miss Hopkins and Hoppy are very busy getting things in order for the new year! They have been planning and working on our upcoming transportation unit! Hoppy over winter break has been on MANY different moads of transportation. Two planes, a golf cart, car, bicycle, sled, Miss Hopkins’ luggage, and who knows what else before next Monday! The two of them are finishing up their pre-planned family holiday trip that was booked back in August (before the board changed our winter break!) We will see you on Monday, January 7th! Until then, Miss Santiago and our substitute will be at school greeting the children on Thursday and Friday. 

Miss Hopkins and hoppy going for a bike ride down in Florida!

Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and “hoppy” new year!!! 

From December 8th through the 14th, many families at Peirce School celebrated Hanukkah! We have a few families in our classroom that celebrate this winter holiday, and I wanted them to share their traditions with us! Evie’s mom came in last Wednesday and told us the children’s version of Hanukkah! The children learned a traditional song, and learned how to make their bodies turn into dreidel’s! Evie got to show us her menorah that she made for this year, and the menorah they use to light the candles every Friday night for Shabbat. Thank you for sharing your culture and traditions!!! It was really a neat experience for the kids! 

Earlier last week, the children also made their own menorah’s using their hand prints and finger prints!!! The children LOVED this art project, and were so excited to share them with you! I hope you are enjoying the art work at home!