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Eric Carle Week!

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Hello PreKPals and Families-

Happy week before Spring Break! This year is going entirely too fast…….. TOMORROW is SPRING PICTURE DAY!!!

This week in Heggerty Phonics, we will learn Jack and Jill.  We are sending a copy home for you to enjoy with your child. We will review the letters and sounds for P and L this week. Keep reviewing letters and letter sounds with your child at home. In Math, we will learn to share items equally.

We had so much fun with our Dr. Seuss week last week that we are going to explore with another amazing author this week! We will be learning about the stories and amazing artwork from Eric Carle! He’s a favorite in the PreK world! We have lots of fun new items on the shelves and we’ve turned Dramatic Play into an Art Studio! This week it will be sort of a “makerspace” where the PreKPals can explore with tape, wavy scissors, paint sticks, paper plates, paper bags, ribbon, crape paper streamers and all sorts of amazing things! We know it will be a big hit! We didn’t get to do our crazy salad spinner painting fun last week so we are going to do it this week! Sometimes there is just too much goodness to fit into one week.

Thank you to all who sent postage stamps last week! We mailed letters to ourselves on Friday – so be looking for those early this week.

We got a new thing in PreK last week!! Our new Tonie box! It is so fun! We have Eric Carle stories this week! If you don’t know about Tonie Boxes (we didn’t until our awesome librarian, Mrs. Hamilton told us about them and let us explore with hers!) You can check them out here!

https://us.tonies.com

You might see your PreKPal on the news! The Mayor’s PR team came and video’d last week and interviewed me about the importance of PreK for a snippet for the Mayor’s Cup that is coming up in April. We’d love to see you there! I’m walking (because I only run if something scary is chasing me!) If you’d like to register, you can do so at this link:

Tuscaloosa Mayor’s Cup 5k for Pre-K (tuscaloosamayorscup.com)

New Tshirt orders are due on March 10        https://rqesrock24.itemorder.com/shop/home/  if you’d like to get one with a new design.

Weekly Reminders:

  • A water cup with a valve, already filled with water (flavored water must be clear!), labeled with your child’s name. Make sure your child can drink from it at home before coming to school. NO OPEN POUR CUPS. NO JUICE!!!
  • A JACKET DAILY
  • Your child’s backpack and lunch box (if they will not eat from the cafeteria).
  • A bag with 5 snacks (that do not need to be refrigerated!) labeled with your child’s name. Please do not pack snacks in the lunchboxes.
  • Your child’s Nap Mat

 

NEW Links for practice at home:

Dates to Remember:

March:

4: Spring Picture Day

5: Local Roots Spirit Night (Mention RQES and the school gets a portion of sales)

10: Final day to order RQ shirts

https://rqesrock24.itemorder.com/shop/home/

 

9-17 SPRING BREAK- No School

April:

4-5 NO SCHOOL

May:

22-23 Early Dismissal (11:10 for PreK)

23- LAST DAY OF PREK

Please email or message on ClassDojo if you have any questions! Thank you for sharing your children with us! They are precious!!

Alicia Jenne: ajenne@tusc.k12.al.us

Whitney Dunn: wdunn@tusc.k12.al.us

Thank you so much for the donations we have received from our wish list! We appreciate every bit!

Here are the links for our class wishlist if you would like to contribute. Participation is optional!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/cmCXG7d?ref_=wl_share

We are so happy you are here!

Alicia Jenne’