February 27th 2014 Where has the month of February gone? It is so hard to believe that March is just around the corner!! I had a busy week with paren

       
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February 27th 2014

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Where has the month of February gone? It is so hard to believe that March is just around the corner!! I had a busy week with parent teacher conferences and I am also preparing to leave on Friday for a training on social media which I am really excited about.

I hope you enjoy this week's newsletter ... as always if you have any questions or comments please feel free to email me.

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March Calendar Items

I have added March's number tracing calendar and calendar numbers along with other March items to my free printables page. They are located at the bottom of the list of freebies.

I release a new set each month so be sure to check the free printables page. I will also post the link in my newsletter as well.

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Playdough Letter Tracing

We do a lot of activities for letter recognition and this week I set up a playdough letter tracing center. I laminated my letter tracing cards that I printed on cardstock paper and set out several colors of playdough.

The children chose the letters they wanted to trace and pulled off pieces of playdough and rolled them into "snakes". They then took the playdough and traced around the letters on the cards. I love this activity not only because it worked on letter recognition and review but also fine motor development.

You can grab the letter tracing cards here and see a video of this activity here.

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Scissor Skills

I made a shamrock and also a pot-o-gold scissor skills practice sheet. The children cut along the dashed lines on each sheet. The patterns can be found here and come in both black and white as well as color.

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This Week's Shared Articles and Links

Every week I share articles and links on twitter that I find helpful to for those involved in the field of birth - five. Here are some of my favorite ones:

How to deal with challenging behaviors in children under age 5 (click here to read)

What are preschool portfolios and what should you include in them? (click here to read)

Find out where your state ranks in the Children In The States Fact Sheets (click here to read)

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February Special

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If you get a chance please check out my February Special. The special is for all 60 of my cds on a two cd collection plus a bonus 30 day membership to early childhood printables which is my membership site.


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Have a great week!!

Shelley Lovett
childcareland.com

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