 March
is Healthy Heart Month
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Healthy Heart
Month
March is the time for us to learn what keeps our hearts
healthy. We will talk about ways we can be healthy and happy. Exercise,
eating right and
getting enough sleep are some of the healthy heart lessons to be taught.
Young children are known to be picky eaters. Allowing them to explore
and taste new foods may help them to become better eaters. It can take
8 to 12 tries for a child to accept a new food. It is important to set
good eating habits in the preschool years that can be carried into adulthood.
Don’t forget about exercise. A preschool child should be getting
60 minutes of daily physical activity. It’s as easy as taking a
15 minute walk, marching around the house in a pots and pan parade or
playing tag in the backyard. Thank you for sending in healthy snacks,
we really enjoy them! For more information, check out this website: http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/index.html
Pancake
Breakfast
Saturday March 20
9-11 am
Bring the whole family
for pancakes!
On the menu: pancakes, bacon, fruit yogurt, baked goods, milk, juice and coffee.
Tickets: Adults $5.00
Children ages 3-12 $3.00
Children under 3 FREE
Grandparents love Pancakes!
Kindergarten
Round Table Meetings
6:30pm
Wed. March 3 -
CFJ & TJW Parents
Wed. March 10 - LWW Parents
Wed. March 17 - GFJ Parents
Kindergarten
Tiger Cub Nights
For students who will be attending kindergarten programs at UE in the fall.
For
more information please call your elementary school.
GFJ March 25
LWW March 25
TJW May 25
CFJ June 9
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Parent
Council
Dates
To Remember:
Let's Get Together
With Ms. Terry
Mon, Mar. 8
6-7 pm
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Pancake Breakfast
Sat., March 20
9 - 11 am
Bring the family!
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Parent Council Meeting
Monday, March 15
6:30pm
Free Babysitting
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Frog Room News:
Bears, bears, everywhere! Goldilocks and the
Three Bears will be visiting the Frog Room to tell their
story. What an adventure they will share! Going on a Bear
Hunt will be fun for the Frogs. Wear your Pajamas and bring
your favorite teddy bear school on Pajama Day!
As an introduction to counting, “Chicka, Chicka, 1,2,3” will be read
and we will try to count in different languages. Ask your Frog to count for you
in Spanish or in Sign Language.
Cars, trains, boats and planes will be talked about during
our Transportation weeks. We will try to match license
plates, paint with tires and build and
paint our own airplanes. “The Wheels on the Bus” is a favorite transportation
song to be sung in the Frog Room.
Spinner egg decorating is favorite in the Frog Room as
well as Jelly Bean graphing and egg matching.
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In celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, rhyming
will become the focus in the Safari Room. We will make and eat “Green
Eggs and Ham” and “Hop on Pop”. Our foot is a foot
and we will be measuring around the room.
Healthy Heart month gives
us the opportunity to talk about good eating habits and why being
active is good for our bodies. We will listen to our hearts and hear
them
beating inside our bodies. We will do some exercises to make our
hearts beat faster and listen to them again.
A Grocery Store will be
set up
in the Safari Room and good food choice will be discussed. The
Food Pyramid will show us what we should be choosing to eat.
Transportation will take over in the Safari Room. Cars, trains
and boats are just a few ways we will get around. We will make
our own
vehicles and name them. We will do a helicopter drop off the
balcony to see how they fly.
An egg hunt, cotton ball bunnies and
jelly
bean counting and a sorting will take us to Spring Break!
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Transportation time in the Farm Room is a fun time to
learn about ways to travel. There are many different kinds of transportation
to be
explored. Cars, trains, boats and planes are just a few ways we will
get around. We will make our own vehicles and name them. We will
do a helicopter drop off the balcony to see how they fly. Signs are
an important part of the transportation and we will become familiar
with many different signs and what they mean.
Leprechauns might pay
a visit to the Farm Room. We will make some traps to see if we
can catch those pesky leprechauns. Green foods will be tasted and a
color
collage made in the art room.
Healthy Heart month gives us the
opportunity to talk about good eating habits and why being active
is good for
our bodies. We will listen to our hearts and hear them beating
inside our bodies. We will do some exercises to make our hearts beat
faster
and listen to them again.
Natural egg dying, egg shell art and
the bunny hop will take us to Spring Break.
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In celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, rhyming
will become the focus in the Bug Room. Along with Dr. Seuss stories,
Nursery Rhymes will be told. Jack and Jill and Little Miss Muffett
will make an appearance in the Bug Room. We will make and eat “Green
Eggs and Ham” and do band-aid art.
Kingas and kites will reinforce
the letter K and it’s sound. Color blending and prisms will help
us to see the colors of the rainbow. Making leprechaun traps might
help us to catch pesky Leprechaun that might visit us on St. Patrick’s
Day. A green shake will make a delicious St. Paddy’s Day snack.
Letters will fill the Bug Room. We will march around the Alphabet
and review the letters and sounds we have done in the past weeks. In
the Task Room we will make letter books.
The bunny hop, an egg hunt, counting eggs and dying eggs will be
done at the end of the month. We will count a dozen!
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