Registration for Fall of 2023 now open!
We are on Spring Break April 3-7
Space Music Program
Dear Parents, Grandparents, and Friends,
You are invited to visit your child's music class for a program to end our space unit.
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023 (Tues/Thurs class)
Friday, March 31, 2023 (Mon/Wed/Fri class)
(Children who attend 5 days per week will be in both programs)
Your child's program time is:
Miss Fink 9:00 am
Mrs. Armendariz 9:45 am
Mrs. Atchison 10:30 am
Miss Bianca 11:15 am
Refreshments will be served following the visit.
For those parents who are working, the visit and refreshments will take approximately 40 minutes. If you are working and are unable to attend, please find a friend or relative to take your place. It is important that each child have someone there. As always, grandparents and friends are welcome. There will be no regularly scheduled class these days, just the programs.
What to bring: ONE DOZEN COOKIES or TREATS
(Please do not bring bakery style cupcakes. Clean-up is a problem as they tend to get into the church carpeting.) Remember, no nut, peanut or sesame products because of allergies, and as always. they must be store packaged, and unopened. Thank you.
The school will provide punch.
Your Preschool Staff
Please Note: If possible, please pay your child's April tuition (a post-dated check would be fine) by March 31st as Spring Break is the next week and we try to pay our teachers before spring break. (they are usually paid on the 10th) THANKS!
SPECIAL EVENTS:
February 20 Presidents Day: No School
February 21 Snow make-up day: No School
March 30 & 31 Music Programs
(more info sent home later)
April 3-7 Spring Break: No School
Dear Parents,
This unit will familiarize young children with the celestial bodies that make up our Solar System and the stars beyond. Through imaginative stories, films, music and poetry the children will learn the interrelationship of the sun, the eight planets, which orbit around it, and other fascinating things. Hands-on science and other activities will help assist the children in comprehending the information and concepts introduced by the teacher. Materials from NASA have been added to this unit including learning about our Earth from space and the earth as a system.
Objectives of The Unit
1. Understand day and night
2. Facts about stars and Our Sun
3. The moon and it's phases
4. Names of the eight planets and to identify them by visual characteristics, (and Pluto, too!)
5. Gravity and gravitational pull
6. Constellation fun
7. New vocabulary
8.The Earth system and how important each element is
The children will learn about these and many other interesting facts. Talk to them. You will be surprised how much they will learn!
SOME BOOKS USED IN THIS UNIT
*Books for this unit are always being updated as we discover more about our universe.
Jump into Science: Sun National Geographic Book
Someone is Eating the Sun A fun story about barn yard animals who think the sun is being eaten, when it’s really a solar eclipse.
Stars & Planets An Eyewitness Workbooks
Max at Night
Goodnight Moon
Moon Cake
My Friend the Moon
Space Exploration
Otter in Space
Sun, Earth and Moon
Hello World, Planet Earth
The Earth and Sky
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto a dwarf planet
The Universe
Hello World, Solar System
Little Kids First Big Book of Space
Jump into Science: Stars
National Geographic Kids Night Sky
Laura’s Star
The Biggest Bear
I didn’t Know You Could Jump Higher on the Moon
Videos
Magic School Bus gets Lost in Space
Flannel Story
The Mad Astronomer
Sincerely,
Your Northside Learning Center Staff
(stay tuned for updates!)
PRESCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 2022-2023 a work in progress!
(more dates may be added throughout the school year and changes may be made)
August - first two weeks -
Letters sent to registered children/parents about school start-up by August 15th
September 1
Meet your teacher day. Times will be sent with the letter in August.
September 6
First Day of school for TTH and 5-day children
September 7
First day of school MWF
September 29/30
Parents visit music time (a "not a program" event)
October 13/14
Fall Festival Days -for the preschoolers
An "on site" trip to the pumpkin patch
October 27/28
Halloween program for parents to enjoy
November 2/3
Student Pictures
November 11
Veteran's Day NO SCHOOL
November 24/25
Thanksgiving Holiday NO SCHOOL
November 30
Picture Retakes
December 15/16
Christmas Music program for parents
December 19 through January 2
Christmas/winter break NO SCHOOL
January 2/3
Back to school
January 16
Martin Luther King Jr. Day NO SCHOOL
February 13/14
Valentine Parties
February 20
President's Day NO SCHOOL
February 21
NO SCHOOL Snow/Wind Storm Make-up day TTH
March 30/31
Spring Music program for parents
April 3th through April 7th
NO SCHOOL Spring Break
April 19th and 20th
Class Pictures
May 23/24
Last days of Classes at school
May 25/26
End of year PROGRAM AND PARTY
May 30 Memorial Day NO SCHOOL
DATES WILL BE ADDED OR CHANGED THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR FOR SPECIAL EVENTS ETC.