Week of February 8th
At the art table this week, we are finishing the extra-special Valentine's Day Cards!
At the writing table, we will be designing the cover of our menu and transforming the kitchen area into the "Brooklyn Cobble Hill Gang Restaurant." We will be deciding where to put the things we need and where to put the signs.
We will read Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year stories this week. We will also be making money for our Chinese New Year envelopes. We will look at real money too when making the pretend money. The envelopes will go home to you on Wednesday and Thursday.
At the nature table it's still all about birds' favorite food--WORMS! Students will have the opportunity to observe and touch live worms (if they are comfortable with that) and hear some worm stories too!
In drama, it's time to celebrate Chinese New Year! We will be reading, MY CHINATOWN; ERNIE WAN'S CHINESE NEW YEAR. We will look at photographs of Lion Dancers and teach the Lion Dance movements. Using our Lion's head costume, we will have a parade or two to celebrate the holiday!
In music this week, we will be learning to move with scarves. We will move our scarves to, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD. We will be listening to some classical music too. We will continue to sing the song learned last week called FREIGHT TRAIN. This week will also be time to sing love songs like OH MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, BLOWIN' KISSES and SENDING HUGS.
In science, it's SINK OR FLOAT. The children will make predictions on what objects in the classroom will sink in a bucket and which ones will float to the top.
Two new words to be learned this week in Sign Language -- KISS and FAMILY (Two words from the "Barney" love song we have been learning.)
The Cobble Hill Playgroup Preschool is an accreditated preschool with the National Association for the Education of Young Children!
"I think one of the greatest advances to child care was the creation of the NAEYC Accreditation system, which has helped so much to raise the quality of programs."
-T Berry Brazelton, M.D.
The Brazelton Institute
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
 NAEYC has created 10 standards that measure the quality of early childhood programs. The standards were created by a blue-ribbon panel of early childhood experts and are based on the latest early childhood research.
Click here to learn more about NAEYC Accreditation.
- Promote positive relationships for all children and adults to encourage each child's sense of individual worth.
- Implement a curriculum that fosters all areas of child development: cognitive, emotional, language, physical, and social.
- Use developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate effective teaching approaches.
- Provide ongoing assessments of a child's learning and development and communicate the child's progress to the family.
- Promote the nutrition and health of children and protect children and staff from injury and illness.
- Employ a teaching staff that has the educational qualifications, knowledge, and professional commitment necessary to promote children's learning and development, and to support families' diverse needs and interests.
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with each child's family.
- Establish relationships with and use the resources of the community to support the achievement of program goals.
- Provide a safe and healthy physical environment.
- Implement strong personnel, fiscal, and program management policies so that all children, families, and staff have high-quality experiences.
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