Holbrook Elementary School
The Busy Bees
At School:
Focus: Farm Animals
Through experiences provided by this theme, the children will become aware of farm animals and their attributes. We will also discuss the various foods eaten and where each animal lives.
Focus: Life Cycle
The students will explore differences between living and non-living things. The students will describe changes in living organisms.
Focus: Spring
Students will practice reciting nursery rhymes. An awareness of rhyming words will be taught and reinforced.
DoDEA Standards:
E1c: Reading Habits
Preschool children's reading habits develop as they listen to stories, poems, chants and songs and engage in conversations with others. By observing others using print for creative and meaningful activites, being read to daily and having opportunities to explore books, children realize that words and books can amuse, delight, comfort, illuminate, inform and excite.
E2: Writing
Preschool Children should have opportunities to experiment with writing materials everyday.
At Home:
Read and discuss a variety of types of literature with your child. Discuss the front cover of the book. Ask "wh", prediction, and alternate ending questions.
Dates:
March 26 - Professional Development Day - no school
Change in eligibility for next year:
Effective July 2009: Pre-K students must be four years old by 1 September in order to enroll in that program. Kindergarten students must be 5 by 1 September in order to be enrolled in Kindergarten. For more information go to the DoDEA site.
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