Week 21
Dear PS2 Families,
Exploring Our Emotions – Expressing Love!
We had a great week filled with love and friendship. This is a perfect time of year to focus on our social-emotional learning. Your children demonstrated many acts of kindness throughout our busy days as we thought about why it is so important to be Kind, Helpful and Polite to those around us. We discussed the importance of all of us participating in such activities as cleaning up the classroom or playground and how to be helpful at home and respectful to others. Ask your child to tell you about some of the kind things that they did for others and others did for them.
We had a wonderful discussion, brainstorming ideas of how to express our love for the special people in our lives and some of the many things our parents do to take care of us. Ask your child to tell you about some of the great suggestions the children had on what we can do for our parents to tell them that we love them.
We talked about symmetry and had fun finding the line of symmetry in many different pictures of things in nature and some man-made. Then your preschoolers enjoyed creating their own symmetrical painting. Ask your child to tell you about their “ta-da” moment. We encourage you to be “symmetry detectives” with your child and be on the lookout for examples of symmetry in the world around you. We would love to hear about them!
We read a great story called The Giant Hug by Sandra Horning and talked about the journey a letter takes on its way across the country to its destination. Ask your child to tell you about some of the modes of transportation used by the United States Postal Service. Your children had a wonderful time “mailing” their Valentine cards to their classmates and were all very excited to investigate their own bag full of good wishes from their friends.
Extra fun was had by all this week as we enjoyed bowling in Be Ahead of the game, listening to stories read by Miss Erica, our wonderful librarian, during our visit to the library and playing in the newly fallen snow on the playground.
We celebrated Blake’s 4th Birthday on Wednesday with a visit from two Preschool 2 alumni, Blake’s brother, Liam, and sister, Lily, who did an outstanding job taking turns reading a Gerald and Piggy story about including others in our play! Thank you to her family for also providing us with a delicious treat to enjoy for snack!
We hope you have a wonderful February break, and we will see you in a week, all rested up as we embark on an exploration of rhymes.
Miss Penny, Miss Michelle, and Miss Kathryn