NEW HORIZONS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
FREE VOLUNTARY PREKINDERGARTEN
MARCH NEWSLETTER
FINE MOTOR: During the month of March your child will be working on their fine motor skills by
practicing cutting shapes, painting at the easel, book making and practicing writing their first and last names.
GROSS MOTOR: We will be fine tuning our gross motor skills by skipping, hopping, kicking a ball and
walking on a line.
LANGUAGE: During our circle time we will encourage class participation with open-ended questions to
help encourage comprehension and story recall. The class will also review the positional words they have
learned. This month we will also be working on our rhyming words through music and reading. As we get
ready for Kindergarten we will continue with our Letter recognition and reviewing our lower case letters. We
will also be introducing Famous Authors during our circle and center time. We hope to have some fun with
the introduction of compound words this month. Look for some funny combinations in the classroom.
MATHEMATICS: As part of our Math experience we will be discussing the terms “alike and different”.
The class will be sorting and putting animals and objects in order by different attributes. Our shape of the
month is the Rhombus. Our Pre K students will be introduced to the clock and how to tell time.
SOCIAL/SCIENCE: In our social studies we will continue discussing the weather. Our focus for this month
is “Windy Weather”. We will be asking, Is it “ A Lion or A Lamb” kind of weather? As part of our Social
Studies our Pre K students will be exploring the continent of Australia, using our globes and maps. In Science
we will be discussing life in the forest and the types of trees you might find.
MARCH 2011
MONDAY
TUESDAY
1
Lions and Lambs– Weather
Letter L
WEDNESDAY
2
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
3
4
10
11
Schoastic Book Fair
Forest Animals, forest sounds, trees and
camping
Letter F
7
8
9
Class Pictures
Famous Authors-Rhyming over the
Rainbow-Nursery Rhymes
Letter R
14
15
16
St. Pat’s Day
Celebration
17
18
Astro Skate
Pizza
Wear your green
shirt
Kangaroos & the Land Down Under
Letter K
21
22
23
24
25
SCHOOL CLOSED FOR SPRING
BREAK FOR THE 1/2 DAY
FREE VPK STUDENTS
28
School Closed
29
School Closed
30
School Closed
31
School Closed
4/1
School Closed
Dance
No Gymnastics
NEW HORIZONS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
PRE KINDERGARTEN MARCH NEWSLETTER
FINE MOTOR: During the month of March your child will be working on their fine motor skills by
practicing cutting shapes, painting at the easel, book making and practicing writing their first and last names.
GROSS MOTOR: We will be fine tuning our gross motor skills by skipping, hopping, kicking a ball and
walking on a line.
LANGUAGE: During our circle time we will encourage class participation with open-ended questions to
help encourage comprehension and story recall. The class will also review the positional words they have
learned. This month we will also be working on our rhyming words through music and reading. As we get
ready for Kindergarten we will continue with our Letter recognition and reviewing our lower case letters. We
will also be introducing Famous Authors during our circle and center time. We hope to have some fun with
the introduction of compound words this month. Look for some funny combinations in the classroom.
MATHEMATICS: As part of our Math experience we will be discussing the terms “alike and different”.
The class will be sorting and putting animals and objects in order by different attributes. Our shape of the
month is the Rhombus. Our Pre K students will be introduced to the clock and how to tell time.
SOCIAL/SCIENCE: In our social studies we will continue discussing the weather. Our focus for this month
is “Windy Weather”. We will be asking, Is it “ A Lion or A Lamb” kind of weather? As part of our Social
Studies our Pre K students will be exploring the continent of Australia, using our globes and maps. In Science
we will be discussing life in the forest and the types of trees you might find.
MARCH 2011
MONDAY
TUESDAY
1
Lions and Lambs– Weather
Letter L
WEDNESDAY
2
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
3
4
10
11
Scholastic Book Fair
Forest Animals, forest sounds, trees and
camping
Letter F
7
8
9
Class Pictures
Rhyming over the Rainbow-Nursery
Rhymes
Letter R
14
15
16
St. Pat’s Day
Celebration
17
18
Astro Skate
Pizza
Wear your green
shirt
Famous Authors
21
22
23
24
25
Kangaroos & the Land Down Under
Letter K
28
29
No Gymnastics
30
31
4/1
School Closed
Dance
NEW HORIZONS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
THREE’S MARCH NEWSLETTER
FINE MOTOR: During the month of March your child will be working on their fine motor skills by
cutting out shapes and painting on the easel with different art medians.
LANGUAGE: Language development will include memory recall with stories. During circle time we will
encourage class participation with open-ended questions and story recall. The colors for the month are
green, yellow and blue. The children will continue to review positional words. We will focus on the
letters P, R, T. As part of our language enrichment the students will be introduced to different musical
instruments and the sounds they make.
MATHEMATICS: Students will be sorting by different attributes - size, color and shape. The class will
work on recognizing the differences between - tall, taller, tallest, big, bigger and biggest. The shapes for
the month are the Rhombus and Rectangle. We will continue reviewing our numbers 1-10, money and our
phone numbers.
SOCIAL/SCIENCE: March is the perfect month to discuss windy weather. In our science units will
introduce plants and things that grow, rain forest and forest animals and where they live. Our three’s will
being doing a special unit on Pets. Although we would love to have them share their pets we are unable to
accommodate any live animals in our classrooms but we will be encouraging the students to bring in
pictures of their pets.
MARCH 2011
MONDAY
TUESDAY
1
Lions & Lambs– Windy Weather
Letter L & K
WEDNESDAY
2
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
3
4
10
11
Scholastic Book Fair
Rain forest animals
Letter R
7
8
9
Class Pictures
St. Patrick’s Day, rhyming over the
rainbow– rhyming words
Letter R
14
15
16
17
Pizza Wear
your green
shirt
St. Pat’s Day
Celebration
18
The Forest– animals, forest
sounds, trees, camping
21
22
23
24
25
Pets
Letter P
28
29
30
31
4/1
School Closed
Dance
No gymnastics
NEW HORIZONS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
TWO’S MARCH NEWSLETTER
FINE MOTOR: During the month of March your child will be working on fine motor skills by painting
on an easel and cutting and shaping play dough.
LANGUAGE: Language development will include memory recall with stories. We will continue to
encourage the use of expanded vocabulary. The students will continue to practice their positional words.
The color for the month is green. We will also introduce the words alike and different and their meaning.
MATHEMATICS: The students will be working on sorting by different attributes– color, size and shape.
As part of our math unit the students will continue to review the #’s 1.2.3.4.5. The shape for the month is
the Rhombus.
SOCIAL/SCIENCE: March is the perfect month to discuss windy weather. March is also community
helper month, the students will be learning about the different jobs in our community. As part of our
science unit we will be talking about plants and things that grow. The students will continue their study
unit on Zoo and Jungle animals and where they live.
MARCH 2011
MONDAY
TUESDAY
1
Jungle & Zoo Animals
WEDNESDAY
2
THURSDAY
3
FRIDAY
4
Scholastic Book Fair
Lions & Lambs– Windy
Weather
7
8
9
10
11
Class Picture
14
St. Patrick’s Day, rhyming
over the rainbow, color review
15
16
17
Pizza
Wear your GREEN
SHIRT
St. Pat’s Day
Celebration
18
Rain forest animals
What is rain
21
22
23
24
25
Spring and rainy weather –
rain attire
28
29
30
31
4/1
School Closed
NEW HORIZONS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
TODDLER’S MARCH NEWSLETTER
FINE MOTOR/GROSS MOTOR: During the month of March your child will be working on fine motor
skills by painting on an easel, tearing paper, putting together puzzles and playing with play dough. We
will continue to strengthen and refine their gross motor skills by hopping, bouncing a ball and balancing on
one foot.
LANGUAGE: Language development will include memory recall using flannel stories and books we
have read. We will continue to encourage the use of expanded vocabulary. The color for the month is
green. Our Toddlers will be introduced to the words soft and hard and be able to feel and experience the
difference.
MATHEMATICS: The students will be working on sorting by animals which will go along with our
jungle theme.
As part of our math unit the students will continue to review the #’s 1.2.3.4.5. The shape for the month is
the Rhombus (diamond).
SOCIAL/SCIENCE: March is the perfect month to discuss windy weather. March is also community
helper month, the students will be learning about the different jobs in our community and using our dress
up clothes in housekeeping. As part of our science unit we will be talking about zoo and jungle animals.
MARCH 2011
MONDAY
TUESDAY
1
WEDNESDAY
2
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
3
4
10
11
Scholastic Book Fair
7
8
9
Class Picture
St. Patrick’s day, rhyming over
the rainbow, color review
14
15
16
17
Pizza Day-Wear
your green shirt
St. Pat’s Day
Celebration
18
21
22
23
24
25
28
29
30
31
4/1
School Closed
TAX SEASON
New Horizons
Federal Tax I.D. # is
59-3327147.
Statements will be done on a request only basis.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK
FAIR FUND RAISER
We will be looking for volunteers for our upcoming
Scholastic Book Fair.
February 28th—March 4th
The scholastic book fair is for only one week and only for
limited times in the morning and after school.
Shopping times are:
3:00 pm-6:00 pm
• Special events: Wholesome Tummies March 2nd –
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
REGISTRATION FOR THE
2011-2012
SCHOOL YEAR.
Registration deadline for all students
already attending New Horizons was
February 25th, Pre–K parents who
are interested in Kindergarten at New Horizons
should contact the office and get an Elementary
Packet for the fall.
Parent contracts have been distributed to all in-house
students. Please see your child’s teacher if you have
not received your contract. Placement will be guaranteed only for those students who have completed the
parent contract and paid the non refundable registration fee by February 25th.
Voluntary Pre K Vouchers: (For students who will
turn 4 on or before September 1st, 2011).
VPK vouchers are due by Friday April 29th.
MARCH 9th
Class Pictures are a
great way to remember your
child’s classmates, and we
know you’ll be sure to send your child with a special
smile on. Unfortunately, we are unable to schedule
re-takes, so it’s important that your child attend on
the designated day. Preschoolers whose schedule
does not include the day of the photo session should
switch a day of attendance that week so he or she
can be included in the picture. Please look for the
order forms to come home in the near future.
Summer
Session
Summer Session for our Preschool students is just around
the corner, and many of you are already making plans for
activities for the summer.
Our 8-week program from June 13th - August 5th
provides a summer filled with friends and fun.
Registration forms will be going home April 8th.
Week 1 June 13th– June 17th-All Sports Week
Week 2 June 20th –June 24th– Game show Week
Week 3 June 27th—July 1st-Pirates
Week 4 July 5th—July 8th Wacky Week
Week 5 July 11th—July 15th—Kings, Queens & Wizards
Week 6 July 18– July 22nd—Lego & Popsicle stick building
Week 7 July 25th—July 29th—Wild, Wild West
Week 8 Aug 1st– Aug 5th– Hawaiian Hullabaloo
August 8th – August 19th - School closed for
Maintenance & Teacher Planning
PRE-KINDERGARTEN PARENTS MARK
YOUR CALENDARS
WHAT: NEW HORIZONS MOVING UP
CEREMONY
WHEN: WEDNESDAY JUNE 8 TH
WHERE: OUR GREAT ROOM
TIME: To be determined at a later date.
Just a note: All Voluntary Pre K students must
attend school June 1,2,3,6,7,8 in order for your
child to participate in our Moving Up Ceremony
JUMP FOR YOUR HEART
Our New Horizons’ Students Raised
$850. 00
for the American Heart Association
GREAT JOB
A special thanks to Ms. Lisa for doing such a
great job.