Dear P3 Parents and Students:

We are excited to begin the 2013-2014 school year in P3.  We look forward to seeing some familiar faces and meeting new ones.  We hope everyone enjoyed the summer and have good memories.  This year will be filled with many interesting lessons, fun field trips, and many opportunities for Foothills families to get together.  Teaching your child is a tremendous responsibility and we will foster motivating learning experiences in the upcoming year.  However, we are partners in this learning process.  Throughout the year we will communicate through our blog, telephone calls, emails, report cards, and parent teacher conferences.  We encourage you to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.  You can call us at school, send us written notes, or contact us by email.

Curruculum

The curriculum consists of Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics, and Cultural which brings a balance between the child’s academic learning and social/emotional growth; and learn how to be an in independent learner.  Our year will begin with a lesson on the health and safety.  We will establish routines and rules in the classroom, and continue learning about the world we live in with a focus on each continent, our solar system, oceans, and rainforest.

Summer Sharing

If your child would like to share one photo, brochure, dairy page, or picture, picture have them bring it in a brown bag any day the first 2 weeks of school.  We are looking forward to hearing about some of your summer experiences.

Upcoming Events

August 22nd:  Meet and Greet Family Social 5:00-7:00pm.  We would like to take this opportunity to thank you in advance for your dedication and support throughout the year!  We look forward to meeting you soon.

Sincerely,

P3 Teachers

The year has ended and new beginnings are upon us.  It has been an incredible year with lots of laughter, growth, and most of all friendship.  We are so proud of all our students and will miss them very much. We would like to thank all our parent volunteers who have helped us throughout the year – we couldn’t have done it without you!  You are all awesome!  We also want to wish everyone a wonderful summer and look forward to seeing you again in the fall.

Good-bye for now!!

P3 Teachers

Hello parents and welcome to our blog!

This week’s quote:

“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future” – Maria Montessori

Wow, what a busy week we had in P3!!

We started off with our magnificent Spring Performance.  The children were so excited to finally perform and show off their talent to their parents!  It was so wonderful for the children to experience a true on-stage performance.  Thank you all for coming and supporting our theatre/music department.

On Friday, the children had their last “reading buddies” gathering.  They shared a snack and a special book together.  It was a great experience for our children to practice reading, build friendships, and build community within our school.

Our Kindergarteners finished their chapter reading book this week with Charlotte’s Web.  It was a great book to share and the children had many discussions throughout each chapter.  We finished it off with a chapter book party on Friday, and celebrated by watching the movie Charlotte’s Web while munching on popcorn!!

On Monday, June 3^rd – We have Field Day. Please have your child arrive to school at 8:15am in order to be ready for our 8:40 starting time.  Our class will begin promptly at 8:40am.  Please have your child wear their bathing suit under their clothes, bring a towel, and apply sunscreen before coming to school.  This will help in getting our class ready on time.  Thank You!

Next week is our last week of school, so please look for any last minute items that will be sent home.

On Wednesday, June 5^th – Our Kindergarteners have their “Moving Up Ceremony” at 1:30pm.

Our last day of school in Friday, June 7^th with an early dismissal of 11:15am.

It has been an amazing year filled with joy, laughter, growth, friendship, courage, and most of all love.  We, as teachers, are so blessed to be a part of your child’s life.  They are all truly incredible children with talented futures.  We will miss them all! Thank you to all our wonderful parents who supported us throughout the school year!!

Hello parents and welcome to our blog.

This week’s quote:

“The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.”– Maria Montessori

Meet this week’s Classroom helpers:

Kavi is our greeter.

Sophia waters the plants daily.

Max leads the calendar during circle.

Teighlor helps prepare for lunch.

Lucy reports the weather.

Lucas A. feeds the fish.

Our field trip to Children’s Discovery Museum was a Blast!!  The children had fun exploring with science and math, building and climbing,  arts & crafts, and much much more!  Thank you to all our volunteers who helped make our field trip a success!

The children have continued to practice for our Spring Performance and are very excited to show off their talents on stage.  The Spring Performance will be held on Wednesday, May 29^th @ 9:00am.  Please remember to have your child wear a white t-shirt and dark colored shorts for our performance.  Hope to see you there!!

Cadbury – our class pet has settled nicely into our room and the children have accepted him as one of the classmates.  They continue to take care of him and are learning to respect his environment.  They love having Cadbury in the classroom!!

Our Kindergarteners :

On Thursday, the Kindergarteners tye-dyed their t-shirts for Kindergarten Late Night.  Please make sure you wash them separately in cold water first and have your child wear them on Kindergarten Late Night.

We continue to learn the Parts of Speech and practice writing nouns, verbs and adjectives, and we are coming to the end of our chapter reading book – Charloette’s Web.

Also – Please look for our sign-up sheet (posted on the clipboard outside the classroom) for volunteers to donate food items for our Fun-Filled Kindergarten Late Night.  Thank you for your support!!

Upcoming Events:

Monday, May 27^th – No School in observance of Memorial Day

Wednesday, May 29^th – Spring Performance @ 9:00am

Friday, May 31^st – All School Assembly @ 8:20am  and Kindergarten Late Night from 5:00-8:00pm

Monday, June 3^rd – Field day

Wednesday, June 5^th – Kindergarten Moving-Up Ceremony

We hope everyone has a Marvelous Memorial Day Weekend!!  Be Safe!!

Hello parents and welcome to our blog!

This week’s quote:

“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” – Maria Montessori

We would like to wish Ms. Maryam’s mom all the best and a speedy recovery.  In return, we would love to welcome Ms. Val to our room for the remainder of the school year.  We are all so excited to have Ms. Val and her energetic spirit in our room.

Also, we would like to welcome Cadbury (the outside rabbit) to our classroom; as he will be making his home in our room for the remainder of the school year.  The children have the opportunity to help take care of Cadbury on a daily basis through nurturing, housekeeping, feeding, and learning respect for animals.  The children were so excited to learn about Cadbury, they started observing him and writing their observations down on paper to  share with the class.

This week we started learning more about Africa and the culture.  We practiced counting 1-10 in Swahili, learned about the different land and climates, plants and animals, and the amazingly long Nile River.

Swahili numbers 1-10

1. Moja/ Mo-jah

2 .Mbili/ mm-Bee-lee

3. Tatu/ TAH/too

4. Nne/NN-nay

5. Tano/TAH-no

6. Sita/SEE-tah

7. Saba/SAH-bah

8 .Nane/NAH-nay

9. Tisa/TEE-sah

10. Kumi/KOO-mee

In language, we reviewed parts of speech – nouns and verbs.Our reading program will continue through the end of May.  Please look for the reading homework on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  We are continuing our daily reading goals and Kindergarten goals throughout Kindergarten.

In math, the children continue to challenge themselves with works that include the 8-9 and 1000 chain, math word problems, and the exchange game (exchanging unit beads, ten bars, hundred bars and thousands).

Meet our Classroom helpers:

Bia will greet the visitors that come into our room.

Mia takes care of the plants.

Bella C. leads the circle and calendar.

Nathan helps clean the classroom.

Gabriel helps with lunch.

Sydney reports the weather.

Kate feeds our two fish.

Reminder:

On Tuesday, May 21^st all primary students will go to the Discovery Children’s Museum.  Please have your child eat a hearty breakfast that morning and come to school wearing their FMS t-shirt with comfortable shoes.  Children and chaperones need to be in the classroom by 8:25am and plan to board the bus by 8:40am.  We will provide a snack and water on the bus.

Upcoming events:

On Monday, May 27^th – No School in observance of Memorial Day

On Wednesday, May 29^th – Primary Spring Performance @ 9:00am.

On Friday, May 31^st – Kindergarten Late Night from 5:00-8:00pm. Please remember to bring in your child’s white t-shirt already rubber-band by next week, so that we can tye-dye them the week before Kindergarten late night.  Thank you for your support.

Ms. Maryam surprised us on Friday with a special visit to let us know she was thinking of us all and missed us very much.  The children were thrilled to see her and gave her lots of hugs!!

Have a Wonderful Weekend Everyone!!