2012 January | Dragonfly School

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Posted in Announcements on January 29th, 2012 | Comments Off

Weekly Update 1-29-12

Dear Families,

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow and Tuesday for your child’s conference.

In order to minimize classroom disruptions, teachers will no longer be fielding parent phone calls or texts during school hours. Please handle all communications through the school office-995-9869. Messages will be checked and relayed daily to teachers by 9AM, at noon and between 2 and 2:45. Thank you for your cooperation.

For those of you getting right to work on your income taxes and claiming your childcare deduction, Dragonfly’s EIN# is 14-1984036.

This will be the final week to weigh in on our parent survey. Please communicate your opinion by taking the short survey. Your feedback is important.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22E756LB48H

DATES TO LOOK OUT FOR:

MONDAY & TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 & 31-NO SCHOOL! PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES. Please sign up for an appointment in your classroom. Childcare will be provided during your child’s individual conference.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 3-4PM-CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING-Anyone interested in joining the conversation about solidification and documentation of school-wide curriculum and assessment should join Matt Kelly (Dragonfly Board member and ####) and staff any and every first Friday of the month.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 6:30-7:30- SAPLINGS FAMILY FUN NIGHT-A chance to visit and play along with other Sapling families.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 12-1:00-VALENTINE’S DAY PIZZA LUNCH-Students will have the opportunity to enjoy a pizza lunch with their special pen pals in an all-school setting.

Posted in What's New on January 29th, 2012 | Comments Off

Station 1 Visits!

Junior Fire Crew hard at work rescuing fellow classmates during creative play!

Posted in Spuds Class News on January 24th, 2012 | Comments Off

Literacy with the Spuds

Relaxing in the book nook!

Studying dragons with Sarah…

Posted in Enrollment, Spuds Class News on January 24th, 2012 | Comments Off

Weekly Update 1-22-12

Dear families,

We were glad to see those of you who made it to our Open House on Saturday. We hope you enjoyed your time with other current and prospective Dragonfly families, as well as our staff.

Our thanks to the firefighters of Station #1 for visiting us on Friday to share information about fire safety and demonstrating all their gear (and how scary they might look if they show up during an emergency). We have promised them a video of our own “Fire Song” so that they may share it with other schools, too!

Please have your child bring in a book this week to donate towards the Hooked on Books Program; that is the child admission price to this week’s Friday field trip. Thanks! If you’d like to volunteer as a chaperone to help us walk to NDI, please talk to your teacher.

We began our school-wide pen pals project last week. Each child will have a pen pal from another classroom with whom they will correspond. Then pen pals will have the opportunity to share pizza lunch together on Valentine’s Day.

Thanks to the many of you who have already taken our survey. You can still share your views by following the link:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22E756LB48H

DATES TO LOOK OUT FOR:

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25-TUITION & MATERIALS/ACTIVITY FEE DUE-If you have elected to pay your materials & activity fee as a semester/twice yearly payment, $125 is also due along with your tuition this month.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 10:00-12:30-”HONK!”-The entire student body walk to the NDI Dance Barns to see Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences perform this adaptation of the ugly duckling story. Entry for children is free with donation of a book towards the Hooked on Books program. Please bring a book to donate if possible. We will need a few parent chaperones. Please let your teacher know if you can help as we will need to RSVP with the number of seats we need.

MONDAY & TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 & 31-NO SCHOOL! PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES. Please sign up for an appointment in your classroom. Childcare will be provided during your child’s individual conference.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 6:30-7:30- SAPLINGS FAMILY FUN NIGHT-A chance to visit and play along with other Sapling families

Stephanie Smith

Preschool Director

Dragonfly School

(505)995-9869

stephanie@dragonflyschool.com

Posted in What's New on January 22nd, 2012 | Comments Off

Ice Skating

The Saplings recently went to the Los Alamos Ice Skating rink for some outdoor fun. We were so glad to have hot chocolate at the end of our field trip! These first and second graders have certainly enjoyed their time outdoors this winter.

Posted in Saplings Class News on January 21st, 2012 | Comments Off

Hibernation

The Saplings recently completed a thematic unit about hibernation. We studied the various ways different animals hibernate and integrated this unit into literacy and math. Also, each student made a hibernation diorama about a specific animal.

The Seeds class enjoyed visiting our dioramas and asked plenty of great questions!

Posted in Saplings Class News on January 19th, 2012 | Comments Off

Weekly Update 1-15-12

Dear Families,

You received an email invitation to participate in our Parent Survey this week. Your input is important to us, so please take a few minutes to give us your feedback. Just follow the link:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22E756LB48H

Thanks!

Attached please find last week’s Sprout cooking recipe for treasure muffins.

Kind reminder to please turn off those cell phones when on the Dragonfly campus. Your attention during student transitions and for teacher communications is essential.

DATES TO LOOK OUT FOR:

MONDAY, JANUARY 16-NO SCHOOL in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17-BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING. Please RSVP to this email for childcare during the meeting.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 11:30-2:30-BULB PLANTING- Juaquin Hershman and horticulturalist friends will work with students to plant bulbs in the garden cold frames and pot up bulbs this week to deliver to our neighborhood shut-ins and the Mary Esther Gonzales Senior Center on Alto St.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 10-NOON-OPEN HOUSE-Come check out every classroom in the school and bring your friends! This is a great time to visit and get to know other parents and staff. Activities and refreshments will be provided.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25-TUITION DUE

MONDAY & TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 & 31-NO SCHOOL! PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES. Please sign up for an appointment in your classroom. Childcare will be provided during your child’s individual conference.

treasure muffin

Stephanie Smith

Preschool Director

Dragonfly School

(505)995-9869

stephanie@dragonflyschool.com

Posted in What's New on January 15th, 2012 | Comments Off

Aspens class news

The Aspens have started a book club/discussion group!! We are so excited about this and plan to discuss a different genre every 3-4 weeks, we are now reading a historical fiction book called “Boston Jane”.

In January we will launch our reading program, ”The Amazing Reading Race”. The students will each have passports that they use to track their “miles” around the globe.

Posted in Aspens class news on January 10th, 2012 | Comments Off

Winter Wonderland

Here are some of our Seeds students on the coldest day of the school year. Children play and work outside every day, with only extremely rare exceptions for weather.

It was a great challenge to work with the very dry snow. Packing snow bricks required lots of stomping! (Though the snow-filled buckets were light with air.)We gained direct experiential knowledge of the powdery quality of very cold snow .

Work in progress…

Posted in Seeds Class News on January 9th, 2012 | Comments Off