Our Eyes are Fixed on the Lord
Quick Reminders
- SHOES - Due to safety all students will be required to wear athletic shoes. Footwear that is NOT permitted include but is not limited to canvas loaf-ers, boots, slip-ons, Crocs, sandals or open-toed shoes.
- CAPRI LEGGINGS - Just a reminder capris are only allowed on casual days, capri leggings are not permitted under uniform skirts/skorts. Leggings may be SOLID black, white, green or blue.
- Makelearningfun.com is a wonderful website for PreK activities if you are inside on a cold winter day.
Dates
- May 4: Cans in Hands (bring canned food or money and dress casual)
- May 21: Field Day & 1 PM dismissal
- May 25: Fly Up Day (visit Kindergarten and learn more about next year)
- May 26: Last day of school
Pre-K Happenings
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Unit Theme: Nature |
This is our final week for this unit. Our focus question is, What wonders of nature do we enjoy? |
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Religion |
Mary Is Our Mother. The theme of this lesson is, Mary, the mother of Jesus, is our mother too. We will read stories about the Holy Family and make puppets of the Holy Family. |
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Alphabet |
We are reviewing the alphabet and sounds. We will play musical chairs for letter and name recognition. We will also be learning about sentences by counting words in sentences and punctuation marks. |
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Social-Emotional Development |
We will reread our stories from, I Have Feelings Too. We will discuss the many ways to be kind and making good choices. |
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Book Time |
The Foolish Timid Rabbit, If I Ran the Rain Forest, Join In and Play, I Am Not Going to Get up Today! Tap the Magic Tree, Skip through the Seasons, At the Edge of the Woods. |
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Math |
Review of shapes and counting outloud to 30 |
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Science/Social Studies |
We will be discussing how to not harm the earth and learning what the words recycle, reduce and reuse mean. |
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Art |
Flower art |
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Music and Movement |
Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Yankee Doodle, The Alphabet Song, Letter Songs A - Z. |
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Writing and Drawing |
Name writing practice and letter writing practice. |
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Sign Language |
For the remainder of the school year, we will be reviewing the 20 signs taught and used throughout our program. |
Pre-K STEM Happenings
Our theme for the month of April is Easter and space. We have spent time discussing the Earth, sun, moon, solar system & constellations. This week we will focus on space travel; including astronauts, space shuttle, international space station and Mars Rover. We will make a shuttle craft and do rocket ship syllable counting. We will make our own constellations and space bracelets. Students will even make their own bouncy balls.
For technology, our students continue to work on our Nail String Art project. It is a great way to showcase our developing hammer/nail skills.
For math, we are continuing with number identifying, counting, writing numbers, graphing, more than/less than concept and patterns. We will continue working on the concept of addition, subtraction, skip counting, and greater than/less than. We will continue to discuss the concept of money and coins.
We are singing “I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, Joy" for the next 2 weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LylgwOEI7AY