Preschoolers have been working with a hemisphere map to learn about Europe and where the Pilgrims came from. They learned about the Pilgrim's voyage on the Mayflower and their arrival in North America. We have been singing the following song:
North America,
South America,
Eur-ope,
A-sia,
A-fri-ca.
Don't forget Au-stra-a-lia,
Don't forget Ant-arc-tica!
and pointing out the continents as we do so!
We tried an amazingly easy recipe in school today and the children loved it! To follow up on our pumpkin picking trip and our pumpkin carving activity, we talked about how pumpkins make it to the factories. We talked about how the farmer sells their product and how they cut, cook and mash those pumpkins into the canned products we buy in the store. We used a can opener, cut open a can of Libby's pumkin and passed it around for the children to smell.
We found the following recipe to use the canned pumpkin to make cookies in our oven at school:
One box spice cake mix
One 15 oz. can of pure pumpkin
Mix the two ingredients together. (Do not use the eggs/water/oil requested in the cake mix recipe)
Spray cookie sheets with PAM Original
Cook 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees.
They were delicious!
Monday - Physical Education
Tuesday - Art
Wednesday - Instrumental Music
Thursday - French
Friday - Vocal Music
Our first week is off to an amazing start! I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for providing the supplies of tissues, ziploc’s and wipes for our classroom.
If you have not done so already, please return your child’s fish to the classroom so that we may have it displayed for our Back To School Night. Please send in a Family picture as well to be displayed on our "We Are Family" board.
Back To School Night will be held on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 for families with children in the lower school. More information will be forthcoming. The Back to School Picnic will be Friday, September 11, 2009.
Be sure to check out Hilltop’s Website at www.hilltopcds.org , then click on programs and then click on Preschool to get up to date information throughout the year. Information for parents is updated regularly.
Feel free to contact me by e-mail at cdestefano@hilltopcds.org. My e-mail is checked regularly. You may always call the school at 973.729.5484 to leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Preschool participates in Scholastic Books. Monthly brochures will be sent home. If you choose to order books for your child, please send in a check made payable to "Scholastic Books".
The following items are on Preschool’s Wish List : Pine cones, tiny unusual containers for our lids and containers work, toilet paper and paper towel rolls, magazines, clean styrofoam meat trays, yarn scraps, ribbon, and tops/caps from milk containers or juice bottles.
Weekly reports will begin the first full week of school and will go home with your child the last day that they attend preschool that week. Look for reports the week of September 14 – 18, 2009.
Warm Regards,
Mrs. Christine De Stefano
