Ms. Castleberry

Welcome Back 2010-2011

Welcome to Mrs. Allison’s preschool class. I am very excited about sharing in the growth and development of your children during the next school year.  We have a fun, busy and exciting year planned, and I cannot wait for the fun to begin!

Our class will have one full-time paraprofessional: Mrs. Laura and I have worked together in the preschool classroom at Kennesaw for 4 years. Her creative, fun, and caring personality brings so much to the classroom.  I think that you will discover the two of us make a great team.

Over the next two weeks we will be welcoming the students back into daily routines.  We will review procedures, create a social story to help with the transition back to school and get to know our peers. 

The books we will be studying are "The Wheels on the Bus" and "If you take a Mouse to School". Please look for your weekly vocabulary and the unit newsletter in your child’s folder each week. 

Important dates to remember:

Aug. 5th - First day of school

Aug. 12th- Open House/PTSA Meeting 6pm

Aug. 25th- Early Release

Aug. 27th- PTSA Movie Night

Aug. 30th- Baskin Robbins Scoop Night 5-9pm

**Please join PTSA.  **

Please give me a call or e-mail me of you have any questions or concerns.

Allison Castleberry

allison.castleberry@cobbk12.org

678-594-8172

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 DinoCommunity SNP newsletter

Groundhog Day!

This week we will be reading Go to Sleep Groundhog by Judy Cox

Watch to see if the groundhog sees his shadow. 

www.visitpa.com/things-to-do/see-more.../groundhog.../index.aspx

Happy Groundhog Day

Happy New Year 2010!

 Welcome back!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful winter holiday, and I hope you all are ready to jump back into the routine of school.  We have alot of fun activities planned this month and we will be talking about winter and snow!  Lucky for us the weather is COLD and a few flurries are forcasted this week! 

Click Below for the Winter Newsletter

January-newsletter

Additional resources

Jan. 5-8 and Jan. 11- 15 Students will learn about winter through the stories of All you Need for a Snowman and Snowballs. 

The Essential Question these weeks will be: How do I make a snowman? Students will work on using descriptive words as well as positional words during this theme. The students will also learn some of the characteristics that make up the season of Winter.

Some  great activities you can do at home to work on this concept are below:

This website you can make your own snowman and work on those descriptive words while doing the activity. 

http://funschool.kaboose.com/preschool/holiday-fun/games/game_snowman.html

This one you can color your own snowman or mittens and many more winter things

http://www.dltk-kids.com/color/winter1.htm

This is a memory winter game

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/winter/memory/index.htm

The Weeks of Jan 18-22 and 25- 30: The students will be learning about Hibernation?

The Essential Question for this theme: What is hibernate mean and which animals hibernate in the winter?

The students will read The Napping House  and Sleep Black Bear Sleep

Some fun activities you can do to get your child thinking about hibernation are provided below: 

Here is a website were you can print and color characters and senses from the Napping House Story 

http://www.audreywood.com/mac_site/activity_pages/color_pages/napping/Coloring%20Pages.htm

Here is another worksheet you can print and color as well as work on counting the napping suns 

http://www.kinderplans.com/images/Image/nappingnooziessample(1).pdf

here is a song and powerpoint on animals that hibernate in the winter 

Download Hibernation-1

Just a few reminders:

Jan 18th is MLK holiday/ No School

 Jan.25-30 will be early release week for Parent Teacher conferences. 1/2 day students will go home at 11 and full day students will go home at 12

Happy Holidays -December Newsletter

 Holiday Newsletter_1

Holiday songs

I hope everyone had a relaxing week with family and friends.  We have three busy weeks before the winter holiday is here.  I have attached a few sites for you and your child to few together as well as the December Newsletter and lyrics to the songs we will be singing this month.  Do not forget our Winter celebration is Thursday the 17th at 10am.  The kids will also attend a special reading of the Polar Express that morning. 

Happy Holidays,

Mrs. Allison

 

Make the Gingerbread Baby's House

http://janbrett.com/trim_a_jan_brett_gingerbread_baby_house.html

learn about christmas around the world

http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/index.htm

decorate the Tree

http://www.castlearcana.com/christmas/tree/index.html

write Santa and letter and get one back 

http://www.northpole.com/Mailroom/mailform.asp

Build your own Snow Man

http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Snowman/

November Newsletter

 Thanksgiving Newsletter

October Newsletter

This month we will be talking about our emotions, clothing items, and self help skills. Attached is the newsletter of activities for home reinforcement.

Thanks,

Allison

Halloween Newsletter

Farm Newsletter

 Farm Newsletter SNP

Farm Activities

Here are some great activities you can do with your child at home

http://www.thekidzpage.com/freeonlinetoys/toys/virtualfarm.htm

this is a virtual farm online in which your childern can learn about farm animal and the daily life at the farm

http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/cyc/index.asp

count the chickens- childern will work on thier one to one correspondce and number recongnition

http://pbskids.org/rogers/buildFarm.html

Childern can build thier own farm online and make the farm just the way they like it with thier favorite animals or favorite crops.

 

Down on Grandpa's Farm