Teacher Newsletter
November 2015
Education Department News
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Parent / Teacher Conferences: November 2015
Conferences allow our families to be a part of their child’s learning process and eliminates communication barriers between the home / school connection. Conferences allow teachers to showcase the children’s achievements as well as discuss educational goals for the children. During conferences, our goal is to meet with 100% of families!
Pre-K Academy October Monthly Project
The Learning Enviornment
Daily Sign-In
Materials: Daily sign-in sheet (not ruled handwriting paper); name cards printed with each child’s name; variety of writing tools, e.g., chubby and regular pencils and markers; date stamp.
Ask the children to sign in when they arrive at school each morning. Explain the procedure to the children and family members, and show them the daily sign-in sheet.
“One of your jobs each morning is to sign in on this piece of paper so we can remember who came to school on this day.”
Accept any attempt the child makes to sign in. This should be a relaxed, routine experience. Encourage children to refer to their name cards, if needed. Place a date stamp at the sign-in table, and encourage children to use the date stamp as well.
Objective 16: Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
Objective 19: Demonstrates emergent writing skills
Related objectives: 1, 7, 8, 11
Additional Ideas:
Collect name-writing samples from the daily sign-in sheet, date them, and place them in the child’s portfolio. This activity is a great way to collect what you’ll need to assess the “writes name” dimension of Objective 19: Demonstrates emergent writing skills.
Dealing with Challenging Behaviors
How to react when a child refuses to clean up:
· Give children verbal and visual warnings about when it will be time to clean up. For children who struggle with cleaning up, be sure to give them individual warnings so they are aware it is coming.
· Avoid having the situation turn into a power struggle by using power struggle techniques and encouraging the child to feel in control of cleaning up and being responsible for themselves.
· Make it into a game or a challenge to get children interested in cleaning up.
· Give children specific tasks to keep them focused on cleaning up and to know what is expected of them.
· Allow children to save projects they were working on in a safe place, so they can come back to them later. Follow through on allowing them to finish their project, so that they will trust putting them in that place.
· If the child refuses to clean up the area they were playing in, allow them to sit in that area for a few minutes until they are ready to clean up. This is not as a punishment or a time-out; it is giving them time to process the transition. Once they clean up, allow them to immediately move on to the next activity or task.
· Offer the child choices that you would accept, such as would you like to clean up the people first or the blocks first? Would you like to clean up yourself or would you like me or a friend to help you?
Teacher Spotlight
Ms. Sandra has been employed at Millers Creek, NC for 8 years!! She is extremely dedicated to the education and care of young children. Sandra takes great pride in preparing and implementing activities for our Preschool children and her portfolios are definitely the best in our entire Region! Sandra works well in any capacity but the Preschool children have her heart! We are so very fortunate to have her on our team!