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Buckley GSRP October 2017

Buckley GSRP
Ms. Jess/Ms. Jen

What a great start to the year!

We have had an amazing first five weeks of preschool here at Buckley.
We have been learning about manners, friendship, and sharing. These are very important concepts that everything throughout the year are based upon. We work on our manners doing our morning meeting at the circle rug, meal time and during choice time. Manners we have learned include using please and thank you , listening to the speaker and not talking while someone else is talking. We use manners while eating that include chewing with our mouth closed, not talking with food in your mouth and taking turns. Please encourage your child to use these manners at home.
We have also talked a lot about friendship and what it means to be a good friend. Some ideas that they came up with were not hitting or kicking our friends, helping our friends clean up, talking nicely and not yelling at our friends and sharing toys with our friends. We also talked about how sometimes it is okay to want to play alone. If we want to play alone, we need to use our nice words and tell others that “right now, I want to be alone.” We also learned that sharing does not mean we get what we want. Sharing means we can take turns. If we want a toy someone else already has, we can ask, “Can I have that when you are done?” Sometime we have to wait for things that we want.
We are all working on these concepts as a class and we are doing very well at learning what these things mean.

Reminders:
Please check and send back folders everyday
We are always collecting box tops
Weather is getting colder, please send in jackets

HALLOWEEN PARTY!

We will be doing our Halloween celebrations on Tuesday October 31st We will begin our party at 1:45pm. Please do not send your child to school in his/her costume. We will change into the costumes before our party starts.
A few reminders about appropriate costumes for school:
please do not let you child wear make up to school or bring it to school. It tends to get all over.
No weapon type accessories such as guns, swords, chains, knives or fake blood.
Please label parts of your child’s costume and have it in a bag.
If you wish to bring in a treat for our party or are planning on coming, please let Ms. Jess know.

We love to READ!

In preschool, we love to read books! Reading to children helps their brains grow and helps the younger students prepare to learn how to read themselves. In class, we read several books each day. The children also have a certain time of day to spend in our classroom library to explore books on their own.
At home, you can help encourage that love of reading by taking time to sit and enjoy a book with your child. Preschoolers love to sit on a loved ones lap and enjoy a book. Any reading helps foster that love for books and for learning.

Planning/ Recall
Every day before we go into “Choice Time,” students are encouraged to think about and plan where in the classroom they would like to play and what materials they are going to use. This strategy helps get students thinking about what they want to do and having a purpose during that hour of “Choice time.” We call this our planning time.
After clean up is finished, students come back together as a group and “recall” where they played, what they played with and who they played with. This is done in a variety of ways. Sometimes I just simply ask what they did. Other times they students will be encouraged to draw pictures or physically show me what they played with. I encourage the students to use their words to tell me what they did.
I also encourage you as parents to ask your child every day what they did in school. The answer might be “I played.” I ask that you would have them expand on this answer maybe by asking, “What did you play with?” or “Who did you play with?” This will help the students with recalling what they did and help them cognitively by having to think and remember.

Classroom Jobs

Each week, the students in our classroom have a different and unique job to do in the classroom. These jobs include being the line leader, the caboose (at the end of the line), pet helper, attendance counter table washer and lunch helper. These jobs encourage responsibility throughout the classroom and the students are very proud of their jobs.
Having a job to do is fun for preschoolers. Jobs at home can be as simple as taking care of the silverware, picking up their toys, or picking up their dirty clothes. Encouraging jobs at home might be a fun way help teach responsibility and a sense of pride knowing that they have helped out.

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Meeting Fireman Mike

We met our good friend, Fireman Mike. Fireman Mike works around Buckley and sometimes stops by our class to say hi and to check some things out at our building.
Last week, Fireman Mike brought his fire truck and all of his fire equipment to show us.
We learned about fire safety. Fireman Mike also showed us that in a fire, firemen might look scary with all of their equipment but we know they are very helpful people.
We also learned that girls can be firefighters too! How exciting! Fireman Mike let us try on his coat and helmet. He also let us all go into the fire truck!
Thank you Fireman Mike!!
He will be coming back again with the ambulance another day.

We stay safe by:

In our classroom, the students helped come up with our classroom safety “rules”. We created a poster that says,
Keep our classroom safe:
1. Walk Slowly
2. Pick up toys so you don’t trip
3. Be nice to everyone
4. Teachers open doors
5. Quiet Voices
6. Keep Shoes on
The children helped come up with these “safety rules” and they are learning to refer to them when reminding others in the classroom to stay safe.

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Buckley Community Schools
305 S First St
Buckley, MI 49640

Phone: 231-269-3325/231-409-2414
Email me anytime:
jedinger@buckleyschools.com

Check out our website:
Jedinger.weebly.com

If your child is going to be absent, please either contact Ms. Jess or Ms. Jen. Thank you!
Join our Facebook group—Buckley GSRP 2017-2018
Please fill out attached sheet for “Boots for Kids” if you would like your child to receive a pair of new boots for Winter.

Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) Meeting

Tuesday October 17th at 6pm is the first Buckley Early childhood parent advisory committee meeting at the Buckley GSRP building. Please come join us if you have young children around our area. Children do not have to be part of our gsrp program for parents to attend. We want to reach out to all families in our area. Please feel free to share this post. Any questions please contact me (Jessica) at 231-409-2414
We will be discussing fundraisers, curriculum, playgroups, community ideas , as well as getting ideas for future meetings, future events and setting future dates for the rest of the school year.
PLEASE COME HELP US! Kids welcome, snacks provided. :)