JAMES WARD ELEMENTARY FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Preschool Room 107

Bi-weekly newsletter from Ms. Hung

Black History Month in Preschool Absences

Please continue to
This month, we are celebrating black history month. We will be talking about notify the teacher
skin color and diversity. We will also be talking about the concept of fairness via Classdojo for
and how judging someone by their color or background is unfair. We will be absences. However,
studying some famous black heroes such as Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther you need to bring in
King. These heroes were brave and stood up to a problem in our country and a signed note to
helped solved it. It's important to talk to young kids about kindness and how we excuse their
can be kind and fair even with the similarities and differences between all absence and write
people. the reason down
and bring it to the
In congruence with our discussion of kindness and diversity in class, help your teacher as soon as
child develop kindness at home too. Social Emotional Development is a core possible. Thank you
pillar of development in our early years of life. Adults in a young childs life are to Nathan's mom,
very important in helping model, teach and Chloe's mom and
facilitate the emotional regulation of the Victorias mom for
young child. In class, we are learning how to helping out in the
identify our own feelings and what to do classroom the week
when our big feelings take over. We are before winter break!
learning to say stop, name our feeling and
take deep breaths. Only when we are calm
Materials
we can solve problems. When conflicts arise,
We are running low
remind them that they have choices such as
on paper towels
talking and negotiating, disengaging,
and tissues in the
playing with someone else, or talking with
classroom. If you
an adult about their feelings. Here on some
are willing and able
resources from Harvards graduate school of
we would greatly
education on how to raise a kind child.
appreciate some
donations.

IMPORTANT
DATES:
March 6- Adler
Planetarium
Field Trip

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Our children are naturally inquisitive and are starting to make ramps and building things out of magnets to
support their play. We will be exploring how simple machines can be used. We will learn about how they
were invented to make our lives easier. Our trip to the Museum of Science and Industry helped us
experience some of the simple machines and their uses in different settings.

Please send in some simple machines we can find at home (e.g. lemon squeezers, nail clippers, garlic
press, tongs, tweezers, screw top bottles, hammer, bottle opener) You can also send in books or pictures
that have simple machines on it(door handle, bicycles, wheelbarrow, flag poles, fishing poles etc.)

Here are the basic simple machines

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