Week of February 22

by Carrie Ellis on February 22, 2021

Our Eyes are Fixed on the Lord

Quick Reminders

  • Bring any monetary donation on Monday for our Lenten Service Drive & dress casual!
  • Please send in a case of water for the preschool and STEM rooms.  Thanks.
  • Makelearningfun.com is a wonderful website for PreK activities if you are inside on a cold winter day.

Dates

  • February 22: Rescheduled Casual Day for a Cause (bring in donation in any amount to help buy supplies for Sheltering Wings)
  • March 2: Read Across America, Dress like your favorite book character
  • March 2: Cans in Hands (bring canned food or money and dress casual)
  • PreK students may purchase books with Scholastic this month and next.  Book orders will be due Thursday, March 11.  Our Class Code is R8LHJ.  If your student’s book order totals $25.00 or more, it may be shipping to your home for free.  Please email Mrs. McFarland at if you have any questions.
  • March 22-26: Spring Break
  • March 29: Casual Day for a Cause (bring in donation in any amount to help buy supplies for Sheltering Wings)
  • March 29 - April 2: Needed Items Drive for Sheltering Wings (Pre-K brings in individually wrapped snacks)
  • April 6: Cans in Hands (bring canned food or money and dress casual)
  • May 4: Cans in Hands (bring canned food or money and dress casual)

Pre-K Happenings

Unit Theme:  Transportation

This is our last week for this unit.  We will be discussing different bodies of water.

Religion

We will continue to learn about the 40 days of Lent when we are waiting for Easter.

Alphabet

Ww identification and sound.  We will also practice phonological awareness and blending syllables with the finger play, I’m a Choo-Choo Train.”

Social-Emotional Development

We will be talking about winning and losing and how we feel when we win or lose a game.

Book Time

The Three Billing Goats Gruff, Where Will We Go, Where Will I Go?, This is Water, I Can Control Myself, Row, Row, Row Your Boat (poem).

Math

We will play the I Spy Shapes game with shapes in a bag.

Science/Social Studies 

We will review fire safety and practice stop, drop and roll.

Art

Wagons with “wheels.”

Music and Movement

Ww Song, Alphabet Song (with stretching), This is What I Can Do.

Writing and Drawing

Name writing practice.

Sign Language

Please and talk.

Pre-K STEM Happenings

Our theme for the month of February is the human body and sports.  We will be learning how the different systems of our body work.  This week we will focus on the skeletal system and teeth. We will be playing soccer! We will have some fun pretending to be doctors with a little bit of hospital dramatic play. We will do an experiment comparing eggshells in soda with teeth enamel in soda. Students will also look at human x-rays and animal x-rays.

Engineering: This is our last week to enjoy the igloo.

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. 

This week we are singing “Dem Bones”. Sing along at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbl4BNkAq_U 

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