School Days

 

Thatcher is absolutely LOVING preschool.  He asks every single day if it is his day to go to school and squeals with delight on the two days I say yes ;)

 

They have been working on their colors this past month and were assigned a different color to wear each week.

 

Thatcher's side of the refrigerator is always decorated with fun artwork.

 

 

AGAIN, River and Thatcher wore the same shirt to school. 

 

Samantha is really thriving in TK.  On this particular day it was Pajama Day.

 

 

The TK and K classrooms celebrated their 100th day at school last week.

 

 

Samantha's side of the refrigerator doesn't rotate with as much artwork as she used to do in preschool.  :(

 

 We had Samantha's parent/teacher conference last week where she was retested to assess how much she has improved from the beginning of the year.  I was one proud mama watching her take the test and know she is more than ready for kindergarten next year.  Also, we just found out that Samantha got into Peabody Charter School where she will attend kindergarten.  Even though we are within the school boundaries to attend Peabody, due to the amount of kids in the zoned area and priority given to other students even before those in the district for various reasons, they are forced to do a lottery.  Peabody has a great reputation here and we feel lucky to have Samantha attend there.  We know several families who attend there already and some that are starting kindergarten next year including 4 students in Samantha's TK class.

 

 And finally, below is an update from Ms. Trainor on what is going on this past month in TK.

 

 

Dear Parents,

            I hope you all had a great break!  We had a fun and productive first week back from break here in TK.  We are continuing to work on letter recognition and letter sounds and are focusing on the letter Pp this week.  The students are working on building simple sentences with sight words and consonant-vowel-consonant words.  They are also working on identifying words that rhyme as well as producing their own rhymes.  In math, we are working on number sense.  The students are identifying groups that have more or less/fewer.  We have been working on and continue to work on writing numbers in different ways (showing a number on a ten/twenty frame, drawing pictures, writing tallies, and identifying what number comes before or after a number).