Happy Holidays

Wishing all of our families a Holiday Season filled with joy and cheer!  See you in 2014!

December classroom pictures have been uploaded.  You can view them under the PICTURES tab above or click on the link here.

Holiday Week

HOLIDAY FUN WEEK

Please join IPS in a week full of festive cheer!

Monday:  Wear your Christmas hat, headpiece, tie, etc.

Tuesday:  Wacky Christmas/Ugly Sweater

Wednesday:  Christmas pins, scarves, or socks

Thursday:  Wear red or green

**Friday is pajama day…don’t worry though, preschool will have a pajama day in January!

Preschoolers will learn the letter Hh this week.  Who says "Ho ho ho?  Dear Old Santa!  We will be writing some letters to Santa Clause too!  If your little one has been singing some songs, we have been practicing some fun non-traditional songs.  The boys and girls at IPS have been looking for Elfie everyday.  He has been up to some mischievous things lately…..fishing in Mr. Dave's fish tank, decorating the Christmas tree with toilet paper, taking some pictures with Mr. Gruber's camera, and taking a bath in a cup of marshmallows.  Elfie must be bored when all the children are home and he has no elves to play with at school!

Holiday Party is Thursday.  If you have questions about the party please contact the head room parent. 

AM:  Jackie Mack

PM:  Amanda Jaronowski and Jennifer Krysiak

Catch Me If You Can….

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This week is Gg week so we have lots of fun activities planned with the Gingerbread Baby! We will read the story by Jan Brett (check out wesbite here), make gingerbread cookies, and even make a scratch and sniff gingerbread baby craft. Can't wait…so much fun!  

Check out some really cool Holiday Activities here.

Winter Holidays

We will spend the entire month of December on Winter Holidays. This is such an exciting time of year for our little ones and they have much joy and cheer!

Our letter this week is Qq for queen.  We have been busy little elves making lots of crafts...stocking, christmas trees, and other fun things! We started learning some holiday songs so if you hear us singing some silly Santa songs you know where we learned them.

Our preschoolers will be going to the Santa Shop next Thursday.  You are welcome to join us for the shopping time (9:00/12:30) or there will be "Parent Elves" available to help them.  All gifts are fairly inexpensive….ranging from 50 cents to $5.  Students are limited to purchasing 6 gifts.

ECO EXPLORERS DAY

Today we had Ms. Bev from the Cleveland MetroParks visit our preschoolers.  She taught us the difference between living and non living things.  We learned that living things need water, air, food, and sunshine to grow.  Living things such as butterflies and plants change as they grow too!  Ms. Bev had a turtle that she shared with us!  We used our "Eco Tools" (eyes, ears, hands) to observe some living things outside and even had our own pair of binoculars to help us see.   Ms. Bev gave everyone a sticker to put on their light switch at home to remind us to turn off our lights so we can help protect our beautiful Earth!

**Check back on Friday and I hope to upload some pictures from today's Eco Explorers Adventure!