and keep us healthy. This helps us form good health habits for life. Follow us on Facebook HOPE VALLEY PRESCHOOL FEBRUARY 2015 Hopevalleypreschool.com Mark Your Calendars 2 Groundhog Day: Find Your Shadow 3 Guess How Many Candy Hearts 9 Museum Visits: Tropical Treasures FUN FRIDAYS 6 Feelings Friday/Write note to parents 13 Friendship Parties 20 Indoor Picnic 27 Fitness Friday Dance--A-Thon In The Community Nora, Miles and Hudson D. set up their own garden store in Dramatic Play. See the Events Calendar on our website for additional information! Preschool Investigative Study: Plants We hope you are enjoying watching our classrooms transform as our child children investigate stigate plants. They have participated in a variety of activities and experiments xperiments which include planting, observing and discussing. Some of our experiments have been the from seed to plant project, planting beans investigation, celery experiment,, our glove gardens, our does a plant need sunlight and water experiment,, planting blubs, growing a sweet potato vine, and planting seeds in starter pots.. Please take time to walk through our classrooms and see these experiments in progress. We’ve ’ve learned that plants are important to people and animals so we have to take good care of our planet and ecology. We’ve learned about the different plant parts: the roots, stem, leaves aves and flowers. We We’ve talked about how plants give us food to eat Durham Martin Luther King Jr. Jr Black History Month Parade Ringling Bros. and nd Barnum & Bailey Presents “Legends” “Legends Heart to Play Day Superhero Power Party Sweet Peas: Salamander, Wake Up Museum of Life & Science Behind the Scenes Tour: Animal Dept Our Specials Mon Tues Math Tumblin’ Lesson Tots Literacy Lesson Wed Music Class Thurs Spanish Class Fri Computer Class Math Lesson WEEKLY READER TOPICS Growing up Groundhog Tooth on the Loose Happy Birthday George and Abe Perfect Pairs for Valentine’s Day meet some of the exotic animals that live there. BOOK OF THE MONTH Daniel, Phoebe and Isaac toss the soft balls into the basket, oh what fun! This month our preschoolers will enjoy reading, Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Scott Magoon. “He’s always been a happy little utensil. But lately, he feels like life as a spoon just isn’t cutting it. He thinks Fork, Knife, and Chopsticks all have it so much better than he does. But do they?” Check it out! INFANTS & TODDLERS Everything a young child knows about the world is learned through one of the five senses. This month our infants and toddlers will be exploring seeing, touching, hearing, tasting and smelling. They will look at different shapes, sizes, and colors. By touching, infants and toddlers learn about the world through their fingers and toes. Our children will have the opportunity to sense cool and warm, soft and hard, smooth and bumpy, wet and dry, even before they can speak the words. They will learn that the ear is the organ through which they hear sounds. They’ll learn shake, jingle, boom, bump and clap. Two other ways infants and toddlers learn about their world is through their sense of taste and smell. They’ll explore hot, warm, and cool, and learn about their mouth, tongue and nose. Watch out for our independent centers that highlight the senses! NC Museum of Natural Science This month the museum presents, Tropical Treasures. Where are the tropics? We will discover where the tropics are and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lucas C. Hazael A. Hayden S. Sophia C. David G. Ariv B. Lucy D. Charlie B. Hudson M. Nora B. Amaya M. Leah M. Klara G. Jameson O. Spanish Class Como Estas? Bien, gracious! Talking about our feelings in February is fun! We will be learning new songs and reviewing winter words we learned last month. Our children “amor” Spanish! Music Class Young children love shakers – they’re easy to play and make a loud and festive sound. There are many kinds of shakers (maracas) and different ways to play them. This month, we’ll learn how!