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Collier, Susie - PS3-Discovery
Susie Collier joined Southfield in 2006 and has over 15 years of experience in education. She has two children enrolled at Southfield and one child who is an alumna.
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Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
April 23 - 27
Theme: Plants and Seeds
Dear Parents,
This week we are going to be talking about plants and seeds and how they grow.
Literacy and Language: This week we will read The Tiny Seed, Jack in the Beanstalk, Grow Flower Grow, The Enormous Carrot, Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash, and The Carrot Seed.
Art Activities: We will make make carrot placemats, Jack’s ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
March 12 - 16
Theme: Rainbows, Weather and Wind
Dear Parents,
This week we say farewell to Africa. We are dismantling our room this week and we will be sending you a portfolio full of our African projects. We are moving on to study wind and weather with an emphasis on rainbows while we look forward to St. Patrick’s Day.
Literacy and Language: This week we will read
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
February 27 – March 2
Theme: Africa
Dear Parents,
Our African studies are winding down this week as we approach Civilization Fair on Friday, March 2nd at 8:30. Three years olds do not perform in the program, but we do attend in out African costumes. We wear kente tunics and kufi hats and the grigris we made this week. If you have the time, Civilization Fair is a wonderful event to ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
February 6 - 10
Theme: Africa
Dear Parents,
We are still exploring the geography, culture, food, languages, natural resources, and flora and fauna of Africa. It is a very exciting time.
Literacy and Language: This week we will read The Loudest Roar, Biggest, Strongest, Fastest, I am a Little Monkey, Through the Heart of the Jungle, and Jungle Drums.
Art Activities: We are still working on our Giraffes and ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
January 30 – February 3
Theme: Africa
Dear Parents,
Today we embark on our journey through Ancient Africa. This is the start of the Civilization Fair experience. Civilization Fair is a wonderful Southfield tradition whereby each grade immerses itself in an ancient civilization. In Preschool 3 Discovery we study Africa. This will go on for several weeks culminating in our Civilization Fair on March 2nd. We will be exploring the geography, ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
January 23 - 27
Theme: Bears
Literacy and Language: This week we will read Teddy Bear Picnic, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bear Wants More, and Bear Snores On.
Art Activities: We will make polar bear caves out of sugar cubes, brown bear collages, and do some trace and cut activities with bears
Discovery and Sensory: We will still be exploring things that freeze and melt.
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
January 17 - 20
Theme: Winter Animals
Literacy and Language: Today we read The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly.. Also on the list this week are Footprints in the Snow, Snow Dogs, and If You Give a Moose a Muffin. We have been having fun with rhyming words. Feel free to help your child find things that rhyme.
Art Activities: We will make toilet paper roll penguins, sponge paint ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
January 9 - 13
Theme: Winter
Literacy and Language: Today we read Snowballs. Also on the list this week are The Wild Toboggan Ride, The Hat, The Mitten, Josie and the Snow, and The First Snowball.
Art Activities: We will do some “finger skating” in white paint on foil, make a ribbon hat collage, lace a mitten, drive cars in the snow (shaving cream), and paint with frozen water ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
January 3 - 6
Theme: Winter
Literacy and Language: Today we read Penguin’s Special Delivery. We will be read books about penguins, snow and snowmen for the next couple of weeks. Among these titles are Snowballs, The Snowman, Amy Loves the Snow, and A Winter Day.
Art Activities: We will make snowflake place mats, melted snowmen, and we paint blob snowmen with white paint.
Discovery and Sensory: We ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
December 12 - 16
Theme: Holiday Happenings
Literacy and Language: The Tree, Clifford’s First Christmas, K is for Kwanza, Las Navidades, The Wild Reindeer, and Latkes and Applesauce and many more holiday selections.
Art Activities: We will make a pinecone Christmas tree, a Hanukah star, and do some gift wrapping.
Discovery and Sensory: We are still exploring magnets. We will also make the holiday scent bag we didn
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
December 5 - 9
Theme: Holiday Happenings
Literacy and Language: The Tree, Clifford’s First Christmas, K is for Kwanza, Las Navidades, The Wild Reindeer, and Latkes and Applesauce and many more holiday selections.
Art Activities: We will make all sorts of Christmas trees and wreaths. We will marble paint a candy cane.
Discovery and Sensory: We are still exploring magnets. We will also make a holiday scent bag.
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
December 5 - 9
Theme: Holiday Happenings
Literacy and Language: The Tree, Clifford’s First Christmas, K is for Kwanza, Las Navidades, The Wild Reindeer, and Latkes and Applesauce and many more holiday selections.
Art Activities: We will make all sorts of Christmas trees and wreaths. We will marble paint a candy cane.
Discovery and Sensory: We are still exploring magnets. We will also make a holiday scent bag.
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
December 5 - 9
Theme: Holiday Happenings
Literacy and Language: The Tree, Clifford’s First Christmas, K is for Kwanza, Las Navidades, The Wild Reindeer, and Latkes and Applesauce and many more holiday selections.
Art Activities: We will make all sorts of Christmas trees and wreaths. We will marble paint a candy cane.
Discovery and Sensory: We are still exploring magnets. We will also make a holiday scent bag.
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
November 28 – December 2
Theme: Gingerbread
Literacy and Language: We will read The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Boy, Gingerbread Friends, The Cajun Gingerbread Boy, and The Legend of the Candy Cane.
Art Activities: We will make gingerbread man place mats and decorate both foam cut out gingerbread men and cookies. We will also string beads to make a candy cane and paint lollipops. We will also ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
November 7 - 11
Theme: Thanksgiving Harvest and Nutrition
Literacy and Language: We will read Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks, Five Silly Turkeys, 10 Fat Turkeys, I know an old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, Perky Turkey, and To Grandmother’s House We Go. We have discovered that the children love (and are capable of) using follow-along recorded stories. They started doing this independently last week and it has become ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
October 31 – November 4
Theme: Halloween and Senses
Literacy and Language: We will read Inside a House That is Haunted, One Little, Two Little, Three Little Witches, and Vanishing Pumpkin.
Art Activities: Our art activities this week are also discovery activities. We will make a Mr. Pumpkin Head. He is like Mr. Potato head except that his features provoke different senses. We will also make a scratch and sniff ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
October 24 - 28
Theme: Halloween and the color black
Literacy and Language: We will read, Inside a House That is Haunted, Say Boo, Five Little Pumpkins and Owl Babies. We will continue discussing animals that are nocturnal and if we think ghosts are real.
Art Activities: Our color for the week is black. We will be gluing “ghosts” in our old black haunted house. We’ll make salt ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
October 17 - 21
Theme: Halloween and Night Animals
Literacy and Language: We will read Stellaluna, The Very Busy Spider, Aarrgh Spider, and Owl Babies, and Little Owl. We will discuss what it means to be nocturnal.
Art Activities: Our color for the week is white. We will be making zig-zag bats, skeletons, owl babies, and spider webs with marble painting.
Discovery and Sensory: We will be talking about ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
October 10 - 14
Theme: Fall and Pumpkins
Literacy and Language: We will read This Is Not A Pumpkin, Runaway Pumpkin, Vanishing Pumpkins, Pumpkin Faces, and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.
Art Activities: Our color for the week is orange. We will be making a collage, printing a pumpkin patch, making a goo pumpkin and more. We still have fall leaf activities in the ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
October 3 - 7
Theme: Fall
Literacy and Language: We will read Fresh Fall Leaves, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, The Leaf Man, Going on a Leaf Hunt, and Picking Apples and Pumpkins.
Art Activities: We will be making water color leaf placemats, melted crayon leaves, a fall tree, paper towel leaves, and a fingerpaint tree. Our color for the week is brown.
Discovery and Sensory: We will begin our ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
September 26 - September 30
Theme: Breath and Reflect
We have had the petal to the metal since the first day of school! We thought it would be a good idea to take this week and reflect on all we’ve done to this point and polish up a few unfinished projects. Of course some books are so fun we just have to read them again.
Literacy and Language:
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
September 19 - September 23
Theme: We are Growing and the color Purple
Literacy and Language: We will read Harold and the Purple Crayon, I Love You the Purplest, Mouse Paint , and Hands, Hands, Fingers, Thumb.
Art Activities: We will try out Harold’s adventurous ways with a purple crayon. We will also dip our feet in purple paint for a little foot painting and trace our bodies to ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
September 5 - September 9
Theme: “How are You Feeling” and Yellow
Literacy and Language: We will read Happy, Mad, Silly, Sad, Sometimes I’m Bombaloo, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars.
Art Activities: We will make lemon prints and glittery star shaped wands.
Discovery and Sensory: Yellow playdough is at the playdough table this week and we will explore the texture of lemon pudding. We will also see how ...
Miss Susie and Miss Patti
Discovery Class Newsletter
August 29 - September 2
Theme: My Family and the color Blue
Literacy and Language: We will read The Napping House, I Love My Family and Blueberries for Sal.
Art Activities: We will make blue bubble prints, paint with blue balloons, and make a blue collage.
Discovery and Sensory: Blue playdough is at the playdough table this week. We will also string cheerios on blue pipecleaners.
Math: We will ...