Mount San Jacinto
College and First 5 of Riverside are sponsoring a 6 week Parenting Class
given by Sandi Schwartz.The
classes are held at the MSJC Menifee campus on Thursdays.There are two sessions starting
September 11, 2008, to help best meet your schedule:a morning class from 10:00 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. and an evening one from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.If you can t make it to this one,
a second 6 week session will begin Thursday, October 30,
2008.
Some of the topics
that will be discussed are Understanding Behavior, Building a Bond with
your Child, Discipline Strategies That Work, and Choices and
Consequences.We highly
recommend this class.Please
take advantage of it.
To register call:(951)
639-5605.
Parent orientation
meetings
We would like to
welcome all families to AnneSullivanSchool.To help you get to know your child
s classroom teachers and the program, as well as to meet some of the other
parents, each classroom will have a Parent Orientation Meeting.The meetings will be held in the
classroom from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. the following
dates:
Rainbow Room:Monday, September 8,
2008
Sunshine Room:Wednesday, September 10,
2008
Kindergarten and
Kindergarten Readiness:Wednesday, September 24, 2008.
Child care will be
provided.Hope to see you
there.
Parent Communication
Board
Responding to
parent feedback, a Parent Communication Board will be put in the play
yard.This Parent
Communication Board is for you, the parents and families, to use to put
notices and information for other parents.Please be advised that thumb tacks
and push pins are not allowed because they can be a safety hazard for the
children.Staples or tape can
be used.If you would like to
post something, please check with the office.
Math
Skills
According to a recent study by Canadian researchers, Kindergarten
Math skills are the biggest predictor of future academic achievement.
(TheStar.com/education)
In Kindergarten and
Kinder-readiness class, children learn Math through their bodies and
senses, as well as using all the opportunities that daily life
offers.For example, children
follow rhythmic patterns (as clapping, slapping, and stomping) followed by
chanting rhymes.We also find
patterns in clothes, nature, and objects around the classroom. In this
way, we are preparing the ground for future learning that involves
following and discovering a pattern as in decoding words, reading,
writing, solving problems, counting, predicting situations and even
behaviors.
Teachers and
parents can take advantage of daily situations to increase their child s
mathematical reasoning. For example, helping to set the table, your child
has to figure out if there are five members in the family, s/he needs to
set the table with five knifes, five forks, five glasses and so on. If
someone is missing, how many places does he need to set now? Measuring
his/her weight and height and keeping a visual record is a good way of
relating to concepts as shorter, longer, heavier, lighter. Using a timer
gives them a sense of time. How long is a minute? Or counting: How many
letters are in your name? Call their attention to the number of pages in a
book. Make predictions, how many seeds in an apple or an orange? And check
the predictions.
Mathematics is
intertwined with life. In fact, Math is the way in which we organize the
world and our minds making life and the world more predictable and
manageable. Use every opportunity to increase your child s understanding
through math reasoning which is a great skill to
have.
Gladys
Botero
Cultural
competence
Having families and
staff members from different cultures adds to the richness of the culture
we create in the school.Having a rich cultural environment provides us with the opportunity
of working together on what is currently called Cultural Competence. Cultural competence is learning to
act effectively in a cross-cultural environment and improving the quality
of our relationships.We all take part in this effort whether explicitly or
implicitly.
In the Rainbow
Room, we are having an amazing experience challenging ourselves to reach
out to others and include somebody else s point of view, feelings, and
choices in our own experience. For example, during a group gathering, the
children contributed their ideas about how to solve a conflict. Listening
to all these ideas and finding solutions is one way of improving
cross-cultural communication.We learned that it is not only what we say that can differ from
culture to culture, but what we express nonverbally.Taking this all into account we
can come to a common understanding.This helps us to learn to communicate effectively and it can bring
us to new levels of understanding which ensures everyone s
well-being.
Teresita
Uribe
Being Safe and Healthy in the
Sunshine Room
The Sunshiners are
learning basic safety skills.During the last weeks of August, the children learned about fire
safety. We practiced several fire drills and tried to get used to the fire
alarm, which sounds pretty loud to some children.Also, we learned what to do if our
clothes get on fire stop, drop and roll , and that if we find matches, we
are never, ever to play with them, but give them to an adult instead.We stressed that though fire can
be very useful, it can also be very dangerous. So children need to stay
away from any fire and let the adults deal with
it.
In addition, we
learned the procedure to follow when we wash our hands at school, as well
as the importance of washing our hands when we arrive at school, after
using the bathroom, and before eating.
Alicia Beatriz
Vai
Happy Birthday
to:
Reece Trevor Clay
Dennis Brandon Benjamin
This
school is open to all children regardless of race, creed, ethnic
background, gender, or disability. (State License
#330901543)
