June, 2008
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Maxine Au (from Room 7
and Room 5) on her upcoming wedding on June 7th. We wish her and her new
husband all the best.
Word
from the Director:
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
George Elliston
American Writer
Many thanks to all the Community Pre-School families for their
support and caring they have given the staff and teachers throughout the
year. A special thanks to Mrs. Sze, Ally's mom for setting up and
organizing the volunteers for the teachers' breakfast and lunch. Also
thanks to Miki Bousso, Sharon and Jonathan's mom for giving a yoga class
and to Laura, Sydney Frick's mom for donating her time and offering
chair massages during Teacher Appreciation week. The flowers, cards and
gifts were much appreciated by all.
Thanks to all the families for participating in the fundraising
events, picnic and restaurant nights we had throughout the school year.
Some of the children will be leaving us this year, we wish them the
best in all they do. We look forward to seeing many of the families
returning after Summer. We have many activities planned for the Summer
months and hope you enjoy whatever you plan to do.
Some of our teachers are taking the summer off. We have some college
students that will be working in various rooms. Ms.Tracy and Ms. Riane
will be our interns. They are both majoring in education.
Barbara Steinmetz
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Important
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 Room
9 2/3 Year Old, Full Time
Mrs. Sunita, Mrs. Latha, Mrs. Masako, Mrs. Iyer and Ms.
Merry
The year has passed by so quickly it is June already. It
was a fun filled year with lots of new experiences and memories. As the
year rolls to an end we cannot help feeling nostalgic and sentimental. The
children have all grown up so much, they handle everyday things with such
confidence it is amazing to see their emotional, physical and social
development and growth. Many of the children who started school with
diapers now do not need them anymore: some of them used to never climb on
the bikes it brings us great joy when we see some learning to scoot on
their bikes and some pedaling their bikes/ Children who could barely speak
a word of English when they started are making complete sentences and
using words to express their needs. It is pure joy to see the pride on
their faces when they accomplish things that are taken for granted by us
adults.
In June we will be talking about rain forest, beach
animals, Mother Goose books, Sea and animals living in the sea and also
end of the month we will be talking about 4th of July. We will be doing
lot of summer activities including playing in water so we recommend that
you send sun block lotion, clothes that are ok to get messy and swim
clothes for your children, a pair of clothes to change, beach towel and
comfortable shoes that can be washed.
Mrs. Iyer is going to India in June and will be back
only in September. Yu and Akito are going to Japan. We hope you all have a
safe journey. We are saying goodbye to Jadyn and Janet, we will miss you
both. ______________________________________
The enrichment classes (Science Explorers, Small Fry Dance Club and
Gymsters) are still taking enrollments. Check in the office for more
information. Thank you.
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Room
8 3 Yr. Old Full Time Class
Mrs. Shaila, Mrs. Thu, Ms. Franchesca
We would like to start by thanking the moms who joined
us for our Mother's Day Tea Party. It was fun socializing with everyone.
We would also like to thank Mr. Chan, Catalina's dad for his generous gift
of office supplies; it was greatly appreciated. We want to extend a
heartfelt thank you to the parents who organized and participated in the
activities during teacher appreciation week. The gifts, flowers, cards and
tasty treats were very appreciated. We were very touched by your
generosity.
Thank you to Mr. Snow, Madison's dad for getting us an
appointment with the Sunnyvale Ticonderoga Fire Station. The children
really enjoyed being able to get close to the fire engine. They loved
learning about fire safety. To the parents who drove and chaperoned our
field trip to the Palo Alto Zoo, our sincerest thanks. We would like to
thank Mrs. Mock for her presentation on how to care for your teeth and
gums. The official school year is almost over and we would like to thank
all the parents who helped us with our class activities. We appreciate all
your support.
The first week of June, we will be talking about farm
animals. We will learn where milk comes from and what foods are produced
from milk. We will learn about chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, and how they
contribute on the farm. Some of our cooking projects will include: making
scrambled eggs and milk shakes.
The second week, our topic will be on Father's Day. We
will be making cards, gifts and sharing the kinds of activities we like
doing with our dads. We will be talking about why we love our dad's. On
Friday, June 13th, we will have a daddy and me brunch. After the brunch,
we will head outside for some fun outdoor activities. We hope to see you
there!
The third week, our topic will be on transportation.
Some of our art activities will include making airplanes, buses, boats and
cars. During this week our summer session officially starts. Tuesday's
will be our wading pool day. Please have your child wear his or her
swimsuit underneath their clothing and bring a bag with a towel and
sunscreen. Please label all your child's belongings.
The last week of June, our topic will be on ocean
animals. We will be learning how to care for the ocean and how everything
we put down the drain directly affects the ocean and all its inhabitants,
including corals. We will watch a video on ocean animals and work on art
projects related to this subject. The art projects will include: making
dolphins, seals, sea horses and whales.
We were sorry to see Mrs. Laila leave this month. She is
staying home to take care of her family. We will miss her. We wish her the
best.
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Room
7 Pre-Kindergarten Full Time
Karen Golosman, Supranee
Chammapun, Maxine Au, Eugenia Halmagean and Sheri Tagatac
May was a month filled with many exciting activities,
meeting with families and enjoying our class potluck dinner. Thanks for
the delicious food.
Thank you very much to all our parents, who, once again
showed their appreciation by filling our classroom with lot of flowers, as
well as by yummy contributions to our teachers appreciation breakfast and
lunch.
June is on its way, we are going to learn about Space
and Oceans and get ready to celebrate Father's Day. As many of our
children and staff will take a summer vacation, we will review what we
learned through the school year and recall the most impressive memories.
Some of the books we are going to read are Dr. Seuss
ABC, My Crayon Box Talks, The Hare and the Tortoise, Clifford's
Neighborhood, Father Bear Comes Home and many others.
We will prepare some fruit salad during the first week.
During the 2nd week we will surprise our dads with special projects!
On the 3rd week, Space, we'll explore space, learn about
the stars, the moon and all the planets. We shall go on a field trip on
Friday, June 20th to De Anza Planetarium.
For all of you who will be leaving in June, we wish you
good luck and success in the future. Come and visit us anytime and tell us
about how you are doing in school. For those of you who are going to stay
with us this summer, we have lots of fun activities planned.
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Room
6 Tue., Thurs. "2" s
Mrs. Lakshmi, Mrs. Pam, Mrs.
Diana, Mrs. Dawn
First of all we would like to thank all of your for
bringing flowers and for the great breakfast and sumptuous lunch. Thanks
for your kindness.
Secondly we would like to thank all the chaperones for
making our field trip to the Round Table Pizza a success. All of us had a
great culinary experience.
The first 2 weeks of June will be very exciting. We will
be having many art activities and will do a Fathers Day project. On the
4th Wednesday we will walk to De Anza Park. Details will follow soon. We
would appreciate walkers to help.
On June 11th will have an Ice Cream Social for parents.
Please come and enjoy. We will send in details later.
Thank you once again for sharing your children with us.
We will cherish the memories.
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Room
5T/ Th a.m. and p.m.
Mrs. Amy, Mrs. Jeanette Mrs.
Kathy, Ms. Maxine and Mrs. Hung
A big thank-you to all of our families. We loved all of
the beautiful flowers, yummy treats and wonderful cards. It is a pleasure
to have your children here with us.
We are almost done with the regular school year, only
two more weeks. We will be talking about Fathers the first week. The
children will make a present and card just for Dad. Read Animal Fathers
and me and My Dad. Week 2 we will have an Ice Cream Party on Tuesday,
details to follow. The last day we will have free play and play in the
water. We hope to see some of you this summer and next fall.
We loved having your children with us this year
Thank you again for all your support.
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MWF 5 a.m./ p.m. 4 Yr. Old
Class
Mrs. Amy, Mrs. Jeanette, Mrs.
Kathy, Ms. Maxine
We can hardly believe it is almost time to send the children off to
Kindergarten. It seems like just yesterday we met some of them for the
first time. Recently, we looked at some pictures we had taken at the
beginning of the year and were amazed at how much they had grown and
matured.
We spent May finishing up our study of the alphabet. We made wallets
and played with water during the heat wave, examined x-rays, made yarn
sculptures and designed our own zoo. A few highlights this month were our
mini field trip to the mailbox, the visit from our mail carrier and
sitting in the mail truck. Of course, we also spent part of May honoring
moms. Thanks to all for attending our very special Mother's Day Tea Party.
At the end of the month we studied caterpillars and butterflies. The
children have greatly enjoyed watching the metamorphosis process the
silkworms have been demonstrating.
In June, we will have our annual Park Day on the last day of school. We
will send home more information soon.
The teachers would like to send a big thank you to all the families for
bringing in the beautiful flowers and the special treats for Teacher
Appreciation week. We feel very much appreciated.
Quotes for May:
When Carolyn was asked if she reads to her sister she responded ÒNo,
she can't hearÓ.
While doing an art project Jaden exclaimed, ÒI'm an expertÓ.
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Room
4 Four Year Old Pre-K
Mrs. Knopf, Mrs. Krishna, Mrs.
Currie
We
hope to have more sunnier days in March. With so
many rainy days, we get a lot of questions about
playground time. Thank you to Evan and Ally’s moms
for doing a dragon project with the MWF classes to
celebrate Chinese New Year. Also, Ally’s mom came
in and did a valentine project-Thanks
March
will see the class working on letters R (week of
March 3), S and T (week of March 10),U and V (Week
of March 17) andconcluding with W and X (week of March 24). We plan
on finishing the alphabet by mid April so the children
can take the books home that month. The Me Book page
will ask ”Who do you like to play with?”
The
first week of the month we will talk about Space,
planets, rockets and astronauts. This will be
followed by decorating shamrocks. Reinforcing letter
T will include making turtles and painting tiger
colors(orange and black).
March
17 and 18 are Green Days. We will also introduce
Spring related themes-cutting ovals and decorating
them to make an holiday egg: rabbits, chicks and
making bunny ear headbands are some of the other
projects.
Concluding
this month, the children will draw treasure maps and
draw x to mark the spot to coincide with letter X.
They will also make a collage with white paper for
W.
Some
quotes from Room 4:
Camelia:
”I am going to open my piggy bank. I love money.
You can buy stuff with it.”
Parin:
“My Dad’s favorite colors are red (for Rutgers)
and blue(for Giants).”
Ally(replying
to the question, who is the President?):”I think
it is George Lucas.”
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Room
3, 4YR PRE-KDG
Mrs. Murphy, Miss Tat, Miss
Marielle and Ms. Su
We
would like to thank Eric’s and David’s moms for
coming to our classroom to help us celebrate and
talk about the customs and traditions of Chinese New
Year. We would also like to thank them for bringing
in lots of goodies and treats to share with us on
Chinese New Year’s Day. We would also like to
thank Taylor’s mom for the delicious cupcakes she
made for our Valentine’s snack.
We
have planned lots of fun and exciting activities for
the month of March. The first week of March we will
finish up and review our alphabet. Next, we will
learn and talk about classroom courtesies and
manners. The children will learn about the
importance of good manners. They will learn about:
Cooperation, say please and thank you, sharing,
taking turns, pick up after themselves, be polite
and kind and be respectful of others.
On
the third week of March, we will be very busy
working on projects about both Spring and St.
Patrick’s Day activities. For St. Patrick’s Day,
the children will have fun painting shamrocks and
listening to stories about leprechauns and pots of
gold. Also, on St. Patrick’s Day, please try to
have your child wear something green to school on
Monday, March 17. The children willl also have fun
painting bunnies, making baskets and decorating
eggs.
We
will end this month by working on projects related
to Spring theme. The children will have fun painting
and making windsocks, sunflowers, spring birds,
caterpillars and spring trees. We will talk about
sprouting seeds and also talk about how to plant
beautiful flowers in the garden.
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Music
and Movement
Mrs. Judy Hobart
We
have had a lot of fun in the Music and movement
program. This February we learned and sang Valentine’s
songs such as “There’s a Little Wheel a Turning
in My Heart, and I’m a Little Valentine For You.
The
children in all class levels have gotten so much
more agile and physically
competent.
They’ve climbed and learned how to turn around and
descend from the climbing station. The 3’s and 4’s
classes are confident bouncing and balancing on the
sit-on bouncers now. When weather has permitted we
have divided into two teams and practiced playing
kickball in the outside quad area. We have some great
future soccer players starting their careershere!
The
traditional game of hopscotch and the limbo game are
being played in the four year olds classes. They are
also practicing the “Do-Re-Mi “ song and “Its A Small World After
All”. We are also learning traditional circle
games and movement songs. These games and songs come
from the excellent CD and companion book put out by
the New England Dance Masters Productions . It is
called “Down in the Valley”.(Can be found at Linden
Tree bookstore in Los Altos.)
In
the twos and threes classes we are moving and
dancing as well as practicing jumping over a rope-”River”.
The three year olds are now climbing at the high
level on the climbing station and are quite proud of
themselves.
The
twos are moving and shaking their sillies out to
Greg and Steve’s CD’s “Rockin Down the Road” and
“On the Move. They are learning to take turns in a
group by rolling the ball to each other.
Mrs.
Sherry, Jadyn Ko’s mom, has volunteered to play
piano for us as we sing when her busy schedule
allows her to. The children enjoy having her
accompany them while they sing.
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TEACHER
BIOGRAPHY
Liala Jones has joined our
staff this month, and is working full time in Room 8. She was born in
Casablanca, Morocco, and moved to California in 2000. She has her
teaching certificate and has many years of experience in the field of
child development. She is fluent in Moroccan Arabic, French and some
Spanish. Some of her interests include traveling, gardening and dancing.
We are happy to have her join our Community Pre-School Staff.
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