e-News March 9th, 2012

Parent teacher Conferences are March 15 and March 16.  

There is no school or Lunch Bunch those days.  

The TCNS families are invited to a St. Patrick Potluck at Trinity Church on March 18 at noon.  

There will be a performance by the Sheila Tully Irish Dancers, which will have you dancing in your seats! 

Please RSVP to Heather Hester or (847) 251-1485 and let her know if you can bring a salad, main dish, dessert or beverage as well as how many people will be attending. 

This will be a very fun family event and a great way to introduce your little ones to Irish Dance!

Benefit Follow-up:  

Watch for your folder to arrive in your child’s cubbie!  

Your folder contains any certificates you won and contact information for parties and other auction items.  

Due to a problem with the server in TUMC, we have not processed ANY of the credit cards.  

The repair on the server will be completed today and credit cards will be processed next week.   

To make your payment by check, simply put the payment in the fundraising basket in your classroom, or give it to your teacher. 

Watch for a separate email regarding a fundraising survey!

Your input is crucial to our planning!  When your survey arrives, please take the time to fill it out and return it to your child’s teacher/classroom.  Thank you!

Now let's go behind the classroom doors...

3-4s Classroom...

Hi Everyone!

Our nutrition unit has been providing lots of hands on fun!

On Monday we learned about the Dairy Group.  

We made a list of the ALWAYS foods in the group, and noted that even though ice cream is in this group, the added sugar makes it a SOMETIMES food.  

The kids really get it!

Our activity for Monday was a personal favorite of the teachers.  

We filled vinyl gloves with water, hung them with a clothespin on our drying rack, and put pin-pricks at the fingertips.  Then the kids squeezed on the fingers and aimed for the bucket below them.  

Can you picture it???  

YES!!  
We “milked a cow!!”  
They loved it! 

On Wednesday we learned about vegetables.   

We studied the shape and color of an eggplant, tomato, carrot (with green top!), and green beans and captured our observations in a still life painting.  

Check them out on our bulletin board!
Your kids did an amazing job!  

On this same day we also made our own garden salad to take home!
Your kids enjoyed the slicing and dicing!  
We hope they enjoyed the eating!

Finally, we learned about fruits and made our own fruit salad.  
There was a lot to slice, and most kids enjoyed eating the fruit with their regular snack.

4-5s Classroom...

Ah….. we had a taste of Camelot this week!

We had Knights, and Kings and Queens and Princesses!  

It was all very enchanting!  

To add to the excitement, Mr. Louis set up our life-size castle in the room on Monday night!

We cancelled Spanish this week because of the ball, but Miss Kari returns on Tuesday!

At centers this week the activities were a number recognition and number value lesson with graphing;  a letter recognition activity; and storytelling plus sequencing.  

This last center is very timely because after conferences the children will begin to work together in small groups to create short stories and then act them out!  

We plan on sharing 3 of these mini-plays with parents at the end of the year.  
More details to come in April!
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And that is a peak into our 3/4s and 4/5s classrooms from last week.
 

Thank you for sharing our wonderful children with us!!  

We are so proud of their accomplishments!!!