SUPERINTENDENT’S MONTHLY REPORT Doyle School Pre K Self-Contained- Ms. Albonico This month, we finished learning about the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly. Our entire chrysalis turned into butterflies. We released them on a nice day. The students were so excited to watch the butterflies fly away. Last month we planted marigold seeds. We watered the seeds every day. Each of the seeds turned into plants. The students took their plants home to take care of. ! We started doing yoga this month. This helps the students with their self-regulation skills. This also enhances their strength, coordination, and body awareness. We also celebrated Doyle Day. Each grade sang a different song. The Pre-K classes sang Hey, Mr. Sun. They did a wonderful job singing. ! Superintendent’s Monthly Report May, 2018 !1 Pre K Self-Contained- Ms. Varettoni We can’t believe it already May! This school year has flown by! We have had a lot of fun this past month. Our Tools of the Mind play theme for this month is School and we have had a ton of fun pretending to be teachers, students, and cafeteria workers. We have also been working hard towards the end of our Letter of the Week study. This month we learned about Y, V, X, Z, and Q. Everyone has done a great job this year learning new letters! In math, we have reviewing various concepts that we covered this year such as patterns, shapes, colors, and number recognition. This month we watched our classroom caterpillars turn into butterflies! First, we learned about the different stages in a butterfly’s life cycle. We took observations by drawing pictures and having discussions every day during Morning Group of what we saw. It was amazing to watch the metamorphosis in person; every day students would come in and check up on the caterpillars or chrysalises, eagerly anticipating their transition into butterflies! We gave our butterflies the following names: Bob, Mickey, Elvis, Peppa, Whinny, Clark, Shark, Doggie, Mouse, and Pete. Once they were ready, we set our 10 butterflies free on our playground. It was wonderful for students to witness the life cycle in action! ! We also had SO much fun last Friday during Doyle Day! Thank you parents for all of the yummy snack donations! Everyone was looking forward to it! We had a beautiful day to celebrate the Earth. We sang one of our favorite songs, Mr. Golden Sun with the rest of our preschool friends and the enjoyed our snacks on the field. By far, everyone’s favorite treat were the lollipops! Superintendent’s Monthly Report May, 2018 !2 ! We had an awesome school year! I am so proud of how everyone has grown, both academically and emotionally. I feel lucky to be their teacher every day I’m in the classroom. Everyone has very bright futures ahead of them! See you in September! Pre K Age 4 Full Day Inclusion- Mrs. Hahn/Ms. Paskas It’s hard to believe our year has come to an end. We’ve learned so much this year. The students completed the entire alphabet. We learned how to make the letters and what sound each letter represents. We also learned our numbers from 1-20. Many of us can write our numbers from 1-10. We finished off the year with our last theme: School. We pretended to be the physical education teacher, art teacher, music teacher, the classroom teacher and the cafeteria workers. The students really enjoyed taking on the rolls of teacher and students. It was amazing to see how they replicated many of the actions they see on a daily basis in the classroom. We had a special theme day this month: Fitness Day. The students came in their fitness outfits and we did a lot of fun fitness activities throughout the day. We did our favorite activity Go Noodle in the morning and then finished our afternoon off with some relaxing yoga. We also participated in Doyle Day. We went outside with the entire school and recited a poem. We then got to listen to all of the other grades. After that, we enjoyed our delicious snacks and the warm sunny weather. Superintendent’s Monthly Report May, 2018 !3 Pre-K Age 4 Full Day- Mrs. Rightmyer May was a very busy month in our pre-k classroom! We continued our School Theme in our centers and launched our Summer Fun theme at the end of the month. Our blocks center transformed into a campsite where children pretended to roast marshmallows by the campfire and go fishing! In our science center, children used their senses to explore shells from the beach. In our dramatic play center, children became a travel agent and helped each other plan vacations. We had a summer shop in our literacy center filled with all summer essentials! The children had so much fun with this theme and are very excited for all the summer activities to come! ! ! This month we were so excited to watch our very own caterpillars transform into butterflies! We logged their transformation in our caterpillar logs and drew the changes as they changed from caterpillar to butterfly! Pre K Age 3 Half/Full Day- Mrs. Schwartz It is hard to believe that we are approaching the end of the school year! We have learned so much during our first year of preschool. We have been introduced to all of the letters of the alphabet. We are so proud of the craft projects that we have created for each letter. This past month we made projects such as a letter “Q” quilt and a letter “Z” Zoo. Each project reinforces our letter recognition skills and also strengthens our fine motor abilities. We have completed our introduction to numbers 1-10 and are having fun counting with manipulatives and playing new number games such as Freeze on the Number as a review. We continue to enjoy Buddy Reading and love to share spring and summer theme books with our friends. We also had fun with our new Tools of the Mind theme: School. Each part of our classroom has been transformed into different areas of a school. The students have enjoyed turning our classroom play kitchen into the school cafeteria. They love ordering and serving lunches to their friends. We also have a music area where students play instruments and sing familiar songs and finger plays that they have learned throughout the year. Our classroom “art room” is a great place to practice drawing and writing. Students are very enthusiastic to take on the role of art teacher and art students. At the classroom library students have enjoyed checking out books, returning them and reading with their classmates. Superintendent’s Monthly Report May, 2018 !4 The highlight of the month of May was when we celebrated Doyle Day together with the whole school. We went outside for a picnic snack. We also performed the song, Mr. Sun with the other Pre-K classes. It was a joy to come together with our friends and classmates to commemorate this special day at Doyle School. Kindergarten- Ms. Focarino This has been an exciting year in kindergarten. The students have worked hard all year and have accomplished so much. They really have become a “family” here. We have gone on many adventures with Jack and Annie. There were so many that we are unable to pick a favorite! We have learned so much academically, but more importantly our socialization skills have sky rocketed this year. We love learning and playing together. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for us in first grade! Kindergarten- Ms. Goodlin In reading and writing class we have been reading, writing and acting out Magic Tree House stories for Lions at Lunchtime. We have learned a lot of background knowledge on these topics through Power Points provided from the Tools of the Mind program and have created cute crafts such as lion and zebra headbands. Our math topics have been identifying 3-D figures and using common directions to identify objects placement. Our science topics have been identifying characteristics of herbivores and carnivores and discussing how plants in an African Savannah use camouflage and adaptation to survive. In social studies we have been using community and world maps to show direction. Kindergarten- Mrs. Pagliocca We had a very busy month in kindergarten. The children were very excited for our Mother’s Day Tea. It was a beautiful morning for all. The children put on a spectacular performance by singing songs about their moms which were about how much they loved them. What better way to celebrate such a special person in our lives. The moms were quite impressed with the booklets that were prepared for them, All about My Mom. The children were very excited to go back to the Steam Lab in Maywood again. The theme was force and motion. The children went to different stations that had hands on materials for them to use to conduct experiments. Mrs. Rella and I can’t believe that June is here. We have enjoyed watching and helping our kindergarten class grow socially, emotionally and academically for first grade. The most rewarding part of our job is to see what the children are able to do when they enter kindergarten and how much they can do at the end. It is such a pleasure knowing that we were part of their early years of learning. Superintendent’s Monthly Report May, 2018 !5 Kindergarten(Inclusion)- Ms. Sanzari/Mrs.