Friday, May 17,2024

Dear Parents,

We were busy this week with fun activities around Plato School!!

Thank you to all who donated to our Service Project throughout the week. Next week, the children will help fill the bags. Each bag will include all the items that were donated.  Then Ms. Neethu will collect all the bags and deliver the bundle of packages to the newborn babies and their mothers.  How exciting,  What a success!!

Along with our service project, we helped support Mr. Patrick’s class in the Paws Bake sale.  There were so many goodies for the children to choose from and we helped PAWS which stands for Pets Are Worth Saving.

Our class started book #7 of The Princess in Black and the Bathtime Battle by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale  In this series there is a stench and more superheroes.  Can your child name all the new superheroes (Princess Snapdragon who is Flower Girl, Princess Honeysuckle who is Cartwheel Queen, Princess Orchid who turned into Miss Fix-It!  What does the word Stench mean?  Our class liked that word but didn’t like that the bluebird turned green because of the stench.

We have played various board games, card games, dice games, and group games all year.  At the end of the year, I like switching it up and having our class make their own games.  Each group needs to come up with the game’s name, how many people can play, what you need to play this game, and the game’s rules. Each group is learning to listen to one another, accepting each other’s ideas, and then finding a solution when there is a problem and trying to find a middle ground to get the project done.  We will be sharing our games with Ms. Anna’s class on Tuesday.

Later in the week, we were invited to Mrs. Beth’s class to view their Genius Project.  There were so many projects to view!!  It was so interesting, and a lot of information we learned from each student’s projects including me.

The children were involved in painting the sculpture of an owl. The Style was influenced by Van Gogh’s Olive Tree painting.  The colors were pulled from this painting and each child was able to paint on the owl.  It is truly a work of art and love from all of our Plato Students.

Our Class today released our five Monarch butterflies.   The children were sad to see them go since they watched them grow from larva, pupa, and then adult stage. The beautiful butterflies will be missed.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Sincerly,

Ms. Demetra

Books we read this week:

The Loudest Lion by Paul Bright

Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder

What Does It Mean To Be Kind? by Rana DiOrio

We Are Monsters by Mary Packard

Pete the Cat Sir Pete The Brave by James Dean

Friday, May 10, 2024

Dear Parents, What a wonderful week we had here at Plato!  I am so blessed to work at a school where I am appreciated by the students, parents, administrative staff, and mostly all my colleagues.  Thank you for all my gifts, cards, flowers, and all the delicious food throughout the week such a special treat.

We continue to read the novel Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare #6  What was the scare at the Science Fair?  (a monster)  Where was the monster hiding?  (In the science project of the Volcano)  Who came to help remove the monster? (Princess in Black and Princess Sneezewort).  Our class continued to write in their journals learning to spell new words and making corrections on their own from words in the past journal writing.  We continue to learn more about Castles.  The children continue to make details on the cardboard castle that we have in our classroom.

Our class and Ms. Anna’s class continue to work together on Tuesdays.  This week we partnered up and played music and they colored to Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy.   After they were done we did freeze dance to different music.  Our class really enjoys Tuesdays with Ms. Anna.

Last week in honor of May Day we planted some flowers outside to give our school some added color.  Each child was able to plant a couple of flowers.  I hope they pointed it out to you.

Our class is excited to share our service project with the whole school!  They made posters with all the information to share how they wanted to help newborn babies and their mothers. Each poster listed what they needed to make this project happen. The children also told each class to make a card that says Congratulations on your new baby.  How exciting to see all the 5×7 cards come back.  Every card is different and colorful.  Things that are needed are board books, onesies of different sizes, diapers, and wipes. This service project ends Friday, May 17.

Thank you for your help!!!

Hope you had a great weekend and celebrated all the Mom’s

Thank you, Ms. Demetra