Week 19
Dear PS2 Families,
Preschool 2 PIZZA PARTY!!!
Your children had a great time discussing a favorite family dinner this week – PIZZA! They enjoyed sharing their pizza eating experiences both at home and at a restaurant. Ask your child to tell you about the ingredients needed and the process involved in creating this yummy meal.
We explored a mouthwatering way to learn the concept of half and whole, discovering a new shape in the process, the semi-circle. We discovered that if we want to share our pizza with family and friends, we can split it into quarters and even eighths as we cut each segment in half and then half again!
Your preschoolers enjoyed some fun pizza process art including painting with pizza cutters, peppers, and broccoli. Throughout the week they enjoyed imaginative baking, taking orders, serving, and sampling pizza at our pizza restaurant/shop. We also built a graph of favorite pizza toppings and analyzed the data collected. Ask your child to tell you which topping was the class’s favorite.
Listening to stories is an integral part of our day! We enjoyed some fun pizza stories this week, including Pizza at Sally’s by Monica Wellington, Curious George and the Pizza, by Margret and H.A. Rey, and The Little Red Hen Makes Pizza by Philemon Sturges. We also read a story about a friendly lobster who tried different unusual recipes to make a pizza that didn’t really work Lorenzo the Pizza–Loving Lobster by Claire Lordon. Ask your child to retell these stories for you.
What is more fun than a pizza party? We are certain that your children have come home with a hankering for pizza of all kinds!! It was so much fun to watch each student craft their very own English muffin pizza. We smelled the amazingly delicious scent of pizza cooking in the air, and they truly gobbled it all up!!! Your children enthusiastically asked if we could make them again one day!
Now your children are “pizza-making professionals” you could try this easy activity at home. All you need are English muffins split in half, pizza sauce, some shredded mozzarella cheese, and perhaps a topping or two of your choice. Put the pizza on a cookie sheet to bake in a 400-degree oven for ten minutes. Please let us know if you try it at home!!
Today, the children were excited to participate in a Mad About Science exploration of magnets. We learned about the earth’s magnetic field and how some metals are magnetic. We experimented around the room to find items that are magnetic and performed some different magnetic activities in small groups. Ask your child to tell you about what they discovered.
We hope you have a great weekend,
Stay warm!!
Miss Michelle, Miss Penny, and Miss Kathryn