Hello Preschool Families,
I hope all is well with you and your families. I miss seeing each and every one of you at school. I hope you are still finding time to learn at home and are finding time to spend together as a family. Please continue to share your work on Seesaw. This provides me with valuable information for TS GOLD so that I can still see how your child is progressing while we are apart. The more posts you do, the more data I will have when we have conferences later. If you are having any issues with the app please let me know so that I can do my best to help you. If you need a new access code, please email me so that I can send it to you right away. I truly appreciate you taking the time to work with your child. We couldn’t do remote learning in preschool without your help. So, thank you. I will be adding more activities to Seesaw for your child to complete this week. Please try to submit 5 posts if possible for the week. If your posts are only appearing as “drafts” please let me know so that I know to search for them. I do not receive notifications for drafts, but can find them if I know to look. We will be hosting another share circle for each of the classes again this week. The share circles will be the same time as last week’s. I will send out emails tomorrow with details for how to log in to the meeting. I was able to fix my microphone so hopefully you will be able to hear me more clearly this time. I stumbled across some more resources that you might find helpful:
If you are looking for additional ideas to stay entertained/busy this week, consider the following:
I hope you find some of these ideas helpful! Please feel free to upload any of these activities or any that you come up with on seesaw for everyone to see! Remember, your child’s posts are private (visible only to you) unless you give me permission to resubmit them and share with the rest of the class. Many students like seeing each other’s posts. It helps them to stay connected and motivate them to continue to participate. If you’d like me to share your child’s posts, please comment on a post on seesaw or email me to let me know that I have your permission. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Blessings, Ms. Barker
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Routines are very important for children, particular preschoolers. Changes in these routines can be stressful for young children. One way you can help your child adjust to staying at home right now is to set up a daily schedule or routine.
First, consider what activities you want to include in your child’s routine. Be sure to provide your child with some time for free play. This is important for preschoolers so that your child can learn to entertain himself, plan and pursue a variety of activities, and stay engaged in a task over a period of time. It is okay for your child to be bored sometimes. This will allow your child to feel comfortable with that feeling. Some activities you might want to consider including: school work, outside play, free play, creative time, educational experiences with technology, chores, family time, devotion, story time, or cooking. I will put together a few sample schedules for you to consider. Pick and choose what works best for you and your family. Sample Schedule 1: 8:00 Wake Up 8:30 Breakfast 9:00 Get Ready 9:30 Devotion (could use Pastor Jud's daily video devotions) 9:45 School Work 10:15 Free Play 12:00 Lunch 12:30 Creative Time 1:00 Educational Experiences with Technology (videos, games, etc.) 2:00 Outside Play 3:00 School Work 3:30 Free Play 5:30 Chores 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Family Time 7:30 Story Time 8:00 Get Ready for Bed Sample Schedule 2: 7:00 Wake Up 7:30 Breakfast 8:00 Get Ready 8:30 Devotion 8:45 Creative Time 9:30 School Work 10:00 Free Play 12:00 Lunch 12:30 Chores 1:00 Outside Play 2:00 Educational Experiences with Technology 3:00 School Work 3:30 Free Play 5:30 Story Time 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Family Time 7:30 Get Ready for Bed Again, choose what schedule works best for you and your family. It does not need to be exactly like mine. You can even type it up or write it on a piece of paper to hang up in your house for your child to see. That way, your child knows what to expect. Do your best to follow the schedule throughout the day. This will help your child to feel more secure throughout all of these changes. If you’d like, you can even share a picture of your schedule on seesaw! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Blessings, Ms. Barker Hello Preschool Families,
I hope all is well with each of you. I have very much enjoyed the posts on Seesaw from the children so far. It makes me smile to see pictures and videos of them even while we are away from each other right now. Not only does it provide me with valuable information to track your child's progress, but it also helps to keep our class connected while we are practicing social distance for the time being. Another way to help bridge this connection is to share your child's posts with the rest of the students in your child's class. To do this, simply comment on one of the posts or email me to let me know that you are okay with me copying your child's posts and making them visible to the other students in the class. It is up to you if you want all posts shared or only some. So please be sure to let me know your preferences! Once I share the posts, then you can like and comment on each other's submissions. I'm hoping this will encourage children to continue learning at home and also help them to still feel connected in some way while we are apart. Additionally, I want to start a weekly share circle with each of the classes while we are gone. We will do this through Zoom during your child's regular class time. I will send out emails with your child's meeting time and the information you will need to join the meeting. During our share circle, we will take turns talking about anything that we want. This will be another way for us to stay connected. It will also be great language practice for your child. This week, we will also be starting Bible lessons. The videos will air at 8:15 AM tomorrow. You can find them on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgxGkv5AQXPtAplu2GHrgA There will be 3 videos that will upload tomorrow morning. I will add a 4th video later in the week. Please watch these videos with your child. In some, I will also add an activity for you to do together after watching. Additionally, you can also choose to watch Pastor Jud's daily devotion for children, which can be found on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/4monkeys. I hope that you will find these resources useful in the upcoming weeks. I will be posting some new activities to Seesaw for you and your child to work on this week. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns regarding the activities or the use of the app. I'm here to help. In case you are looking for other ways to stay entertained/busy during this time, here are a few other suggestions:
Hello Preschool Families, I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying your extra time together at home. I will be posting on here weekly over these next few weeks to communicate ideas for what you and your child can do together at home to enhance learning. We will also be using an app called SeeSaw for you to upload documentation (videos, photos, voice recordings, etc.) of your child's learning during this time. These uploads will allow me to continue to gather data for your child so that I can provided you with a clearer picture of where your child is at academically during parent teacher conferences. The more information you give me, the more accurate goals I'll be able to set for you and your child to work on over the summer. I will be available via email everyday from 9 AM - 3 PM and will respond as quickly as I am able. Outside of these hours, I might not respond as quickly, but I will still respond regularly. After 10 PM, I will no longer respond until 9 AM the next morning. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns during this time. These next few weeks will be different and we will get through them together. Thank you so much for all of your help with continuing learning at home with your child! Tip: If the sheet protector I provided is not sturdy enough, you can also use your child's class folder instead. Simply slide the paper inside of the clear part of the outside of the blue folder. Then, your child should be able to use a dry erase marker to complete the worksheet. Wipe the clear section off with a tissue when your child is finished. You can pull out the page and slide in a new one to do next. This will allow your child to practice these pages more than once. Feel free to upload any of these pictures to your child's SeeSaw portfolio to demonstrate your child's progress over these next few weeks! Some important notes about SeeSaw:
Parent Teacher Conferences: The way things are progressing, I don't believe we will be able to continue with in-person parent teacher conferences at this time. I would like to push conferences back until the end of April/beginning of May to see where we are at. If we are able to meet in person, then I will set up a new sign up sheet for in person conferences. Otherwise, we will do video conferences instead. I will be sure to keep you updated on this as things progress. How to Explain Corona-virus to Your Child: Please read this post by Kim Marxhausen on how to address the corona-virus topic with your preschooler. Additional Activities You Can Try:
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Ms. BarkerPreschool teacher at ILS. Archives
August 2021
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