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- Important Dates to Remember
| April 1 |
Music and Movement |
| April 2 & 3 |
Chapel |
| April 3 & 4 |
Espanol |
| April 7 & 8 |
Music and Movement |
| April 10 & 11 |
Espanol |
| April 13 through April 19 |
Week of the Young Child |
| April 14 & 15 |
Music and Movement |
| April 14 |
Visit from Mr. Softee from AI DuPont Children's Hospital |
| April 15 |
Visit from Clem Bowen-Singer/Songwriter |
| April 16 |
Visit from Annie's Menagerie |
| April 17 |
Visit from Trooper Miller and his K9 |
| April 18 |
School Closed - Teachers' Inservice |
| April 21 & 22 |
Music and Movement |
| April 22 |
Earth Day |
| April 24 & 25 |
Espanol |
| April 28 & 29 |
Music and Movement |
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- School News
- Safety
Now that the weather is supposed to get warmer, many of our students like to play outside after school. Parents please make sure your child is supervised while playing. Even though our driveway is often blocked, many drivers disregard the cones. Please do not allow your child to play in the driveway or gated area. We want everyone to be safe during school and after too.
- Summer Camp
Each year we offer an extended school or "summer camp" to coincide with other elementary schools in the area. This year if there is sufficient enrollment, we will be offering this program from May 27th through May 30th and June 2nd through June 6. This camp is always a lot of fun with special themes and interesting specials. Look for an information letter soon.
- Week of the Young Child
Each year, the National Association for the Education of Young Children sets aside a week to honor those wonderful people in our lives; preschool children. At Zion, we try to make that week special for our students. This year we have some special guests that will be visiting us, please remember your "special person" this week and celebrate with us.
- Borrowed Clothing
Please make sure that any clothes borrowed from Zion are returned. We try to keep our supplies up, but they are dwindling. We like to keep a variety of clothes for all sizes just in case someone has an accident, or just a spill.
- Spring Arts Night
Please mark your calendars for May 7th at 7pm. This is Spring Art Night, which is a great opportunity for all our families to visit the school to see some of the great work your children have done. This year again our school will be visiting distant lands, so here is your chance to visit Alaska, Australia Brazil, Germany, Hawaii, Holland and Spain, and it won't cost you a dime.
- Music & Movement
Mrs. Jack
Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a great Spring Break! We are in the home stretch now, but I'm looking forward to all the fun we are going to have in our Music and Movement classes!
March was a great deal of fun. It is also amazing to see just how much the children have improved this year. In March, we had a chance to play with our new Airblox. We set up a really cool maze and the kids had a blast! We also worked on our throwing and jumping skills pretended to go on a bear hunt and even acted like very silly fish.
In April and May we will continue to work on our throwing and kicking skills as well as our jumping and balancing skills. The year will end with our annual obstacle course that will incorporate many of our previously learned skills. It*s always a lot of fun and the kids love it!
- Espanol
Senora Robertson
Hola amigos! Marzo is over and it was a lot of divertido! (fun!) Todos los ninos worked hard on learning the names of the special people in their families and names for some of the things we see around our escuela(school) y casa(house) Ask them to show you la puerta(the door) or la mesa y la silla(table and chair) Excelente!
Let's hope Abril is warmer and that los flores start to bloom and los parejos start to sing! Primavera (spring) is on the way!
We finished the story of Papa Diego and it was such a great and happy ending! The children loved hearing about Diego and how he wanted to see his special abuelo from Mexico and how his dream came true! Muy bien!
The four year old classes are counting all the way to 50 in espanol and they want to go higher! Stupendo! They still love to dance and listen to the latin music, while parading around shaking the maracas! In April listen for the children to say the names of some of the food we eat, mmm mmm good! We will also listen to another great story , Pepita Talks Twice! Knowing two languages is fun and comes in handy in this story!
The 2 and 3 year olds learned a new song , I Know the Days of the Week! Domingo, lunes, martes, miercoles, jueves, viernes y sabado! Excelente! They are all a bundle of energy waking Senor Feliz our sleepy puppet with Hola y Adios ! They love the latin music so much I can hear them singing along when we dance with the maracas-baile todos los noche! (Dance all night!)
The kindergarten class knows todos los colores so well they are getting the chance to be the guest teacher during Espnaol and ask their classmates the names of the colors in espanol! They are doing a great job completing their homework and are eager to learn! Counting to 100 in espanol es muy facil for them! Excelente! Abril will find us saying the things we like to do in espanol, like Te le gusta nadar(I like to swim) te le gusta leer(I like to read) !
Muchas gracias for all of your continued support of Espanol at ZEEC!
- Extended Care
Mrs. Hultberg, Mrs. Calder, Mrs. Oldham, Miss Dunbar and Miss Dryden
April is a beautiful month! Flowers are springing up out of the ground and the birds are singing their springtime songs. We are all back from our Easter vacation and ready to get back to work.
Just as we returned from Disney, it's time to blast off into outer space. As we study our solar system, we will learn all about the planets that surround us. Did you know that "sol" means sun and that the sun is really a star and not a planet? We are going to travel to all of the planets in our space ship. Ask your child if he or she can tell you the name of our galaxy. If they need a little help, mention the candy bar. There are so many interesting things to learn in space: the stars, the moon, gravity and most important...what do space aliens look like? We'll have to use our imaginations for that.
Parents, if your child does not stay in extended care at the present time, and you would like to try it out for 1 day a week, just give the office a call. We do have spots available, and it's a lot of fun for your child.
- Two Year Olds
Mrs. Roach and Mrs. Oldham
March moved on to make room for spring! It seems like we have been waiting forever for a beautiful warm sunny day. The two year olds can't wait to leave those hats and scarves behind.
We had lots of fun in March looking for that tricky leprechaun. Although we didn't catch him, we did mange to get some of his gold. The children made sparkling shamrocks and colorful rainbows to brighten up our hallway. Also, we were very excited about the Easter bunny coming to our homes. The children loved dying and decorating eggs for their Easter bags. They made fluffy Easter bunnies and cute little chicks. The children enjoyed the Easter egg hunt we had in our classroom. They helped each other find those colorful Easter eggs.
April will bring us back to school refreshed and ready to learn and have fun. The two year olds will observe the changes taking place around them. We will be celebrating the week of the young child. This week is a great time to celebrate with activities with our friends in other classes. We will continue with our shape and color unit. Also, the children are doing a excellent job with their scissor skills. They are so proud of their accomplishments. We will be discussing about rainstorms and how we feel about them, how important recycling is to keep our world clean and will be decorating the hallway with signs of spring.
Happy Spring!
- Two and Three Day Three Year Olds
Mrs. Jack, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Ferrier, Mrs. Zabielski
Well March came in like a lion and out like a lamb! Let's hope Spring is just around the corner!
We are anticipating the warmer weather and all the changes the spring time brings us! We hope you all had a blessed Easter season and enjoyed the holiday break! The 2 and 3 day three year olds are always busy! March was a month to celebrate!
First we celebrated how big we have gotten since we were babies! You could see the cutest baby pictures hanging in the hall and see how much we all weighed and how tall we were when we were born and how much we've grown! We got to play with lots of baby dolls in our room! There was a changing table, a crib and lots of diapers and baby clothes! It was a lot of fun taking care of the babies and they weren't us! Eating baby food again was a real treat for some of us.... We tasted applesauce, bananas, apples & cherries and mixed fruit! Some of us LOVED it and others of us DID NOT LIKE IT ONE BIT! We learned how the baby food was real food that we eat just smashed up more and softer so it's easier for babies to chew and swallow! The experiment we did with the baby diaper was so cool! We poured water on to a dry diaper and kept track of how many cups of water the diaper would hold before leaking.....guess how many??? 5 CUPS! And it weighed 2 pounds! We decided we are glad we do not wear those heavy, wet diapers anymore, yeah us!
St. Patty's Day was another day to celebrate in March! Lots of green shamrocks and adorable hats were made to wear home! We did not see or catch the sneaky leprechaun but a few times he tricked us and made us laugh. Like when he got into our CD player and made the songs go really fast! He also left a lot of green footprints around our classroom!
The true reason to celebrate this month was Easter and the story of how Jesus has risen again! We read the Easter story and the children sure did ask a lot of questions- we are blessed to have such curious children and be able to share the joyous story of Easter with them! It was a lot of fun coloring the Easter eggs, there sure were a lot of interesting colors to see! We even cracked one open to see what it looks like inside when it is cooked!
In April get ready to learn all about the ocean and the fascinating animals that live there! Dinosaurs will come stomping into our classroom and are always a favorite theme with the children! It*s hard to believe that it is already April, we are having so much fun playing and learning at Zion!
- Five Day Three Year Olds
Mrs. DelGrosso and Mrs. Spadea
March was a month filled with fantasy and fun. First came the opening of our Zion Zany Zoo. The boys and girls had lots of fun creating some unique animals for you to observe at our zoo. Their imaginations were working overtime as they shared the information they "discovered" about the diets and habitats of these never before seen creatures! By the middle of March, we all started to notice some strange happenings. Alas, that lively leprechaun was back, searching for his pot of gold. He played several tricks on us and left our classroom very messy while looking for his gold. Then on St. Patrick's day, he apologized and left us some tasty treats and a magic potion that turned our juice green. We will be ready for him next year and find his pot of gold first! Once the leprechaun was on his way back to Ireland, we began to focus on Easter. We made beautiful sun-catcher crosses to symbolize God's love for us. We also colored eggs and made some cotton-tailed rabbits to get us in the mood for a visit from the Easter Bunny.
Now our vacation is over and it*s time to get back to school. In April, earth science will be a very important part of our learning. We will be discovering what goes on in our gardens when we learn about how flowers grow and the part that insects play in that growth. We will also be thinking of ways we can keep our earth clean as we learn to recycle. We will be doing some fun experiments with magnets and we have some "rainy day" fun planned for the April shower days. In May, our social studies unit will include learning about what life is like for children in Spain. The boys and girls will also be remembering their Moms in a special way for Mother's Day.
Thanks to all the families who remembered us at Easter time with sweet treats and beautiful flowers! Spring is finally here and we plan to take time to enjoy it as we watch for all the signs of the changing season.
- Four Year Olds
Mrs. Calder and Miss Dunbar
Spring is popping up all over! The daffodils are blooming, the trees are starting to bud, and the birds are chirping. The weather is cooperating as well. The longer warmer days are just what the doctor ordered. We hope you all had a wonderful vacation and spent some time in the sunshine.
We had lots of fun in March looking for that pesky leprechaun. We looked high and low but he was just too fast for us. We really thought we were going to catch him this time. The children's traps were wonderful and worked really well. That little guy is so tricky! He did leave us some special leprechaun gold though. Better luck next year!
April will bring Spring showers and lots of flowers. We will see God's promise of new life everywhere with the rebirth that happens each Spring. We will play in the dirt and plant some seeds. Learning and watching how things grow will help us to remember how precious our Earth is. We will celebrate Earth Day and learn ways to keep our Earth clean and safe.We will be recycling and even polluting some water to see what happens to it. We will learn about an eco system and global warming too. April also brings the Week of the Young Child. This is a very special week each year dedicated to young children. We will celebrate each day in a special way with many surprises planned.
This month we will continue our alphabet and numbers units and begin learning our address and telephone numbers. We will also continue our rhyming words as well as begin our study of Australia. We will learn about the people, customs, foods etc. that make Australia the wonderful land down under.
- Four Year Olds
Mrs. Hawk and Mrs. Taylor
Time really does fly when you are having fun. I can't believe that we only have 2 months of school left. We've got a lot to do and now that we are back from vacation, it's time to get going!
We're still pushing our way through the alphabet. Our letter books are getting filled and we will soon be completing them. When we first started this unit, it took us a long time to fill the blackboard with words that began with our special letter. Now we need a bigger board! We hear those initial sounds and come up with some fantastic words!
Speaking of fantastic; those leprechaun traps were beyond great! I can't believe we didn't catch him. And I was really counting on that pot of gold since I didn't win the power ball. Oh well, we sure had a great time looking for clues and making our movie about our traps. I really think we have some budding engineers in our class.
think we have a few writers and illustrators in our room as well. We, as a class wrote and illustrated a book this month and we are working on our "sophomore" project now. We have also been fortunate to have some of our favorite books read by our classmates. It's not that easy getting up in front of your friends and reading, but we are doing a great job! I'm very proud!
I am also proud of the kind words that we practiced this month and every month. It is so important to treat each other with kindness and we try to remember that each and every day.
We are also going to remember our phone numbers and addresses this month. We've almost got it down, but maybe if we send ourselves a letter or call ourselves, it will be easier.
We're going to get our hands muddy this month as we explore how things grow. We*ll look at seeds and plant some of our own, and look at how roots live in the ground and how they feed all the beautiful plants that grow above the dirt. Earlier this year, we found out about the green chlorophyll in the leaves fed the trees, and now we are going underground to see how it all began.
As we get ready for Spring Arts Night, our class will be traveling to Brazil and the beautiful rain forests. We'll learn how they are threatened by pollution and what we can do to save them. We've already started in our classroom by recycling. We can all do our part. So get ready; it's not only going to be "a jungle out there", but we're going to bring it into our classroom too!
- Kindergarten
Miss Piner and Mrs. Sadowski
April showers bring May flowers and let's hope it brings us the warm weather. I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation. Our kindergarten learned the meaning of the Easter colors and how Jesus died for our sins. We dyed Easter eggs and made our own chocolate pops.
We hung our St. Patrick's mobiles and we had fun playing shamrock math games. The students are doing an excellent job with addition problems. We have started subtraction word problems and we will begin to work out equations on paper. Please allow your child to use objects at home for their math homework. We have used links, cubes and rulers to help us measure objects. I can't wait till the weather gets warm and we can measure objects outside. We are learning how to make change from nickels and will continue to work with money.
We are working on more blending sounds and we are using our ending sounds to figure out some of the bigger words. We will have our first spelling test in April. Our first two words are, dog and cat. We review our sight words every day. We read the directions together on all of our worksheets. Their will be a book report once a week for homework. Please let me know if there are any questions on the book reports.
We will start our health unit at the beginning of April. We will discuss what foods we should eat and how we can take care of our bodies and minds. Please help us make our health unit more exciting by signing up to bring in a healthy treat. And while we take care of our bodies, we will take care of our earth as well by recycling bottles, cans and magazines.
Happy Spring! Remember spring means sports sign-ups for kids and adults!
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