Our Faith Can Move Mountains
Quick Reminders
- END YEAR PARTY - Monday, May 23, from 9 am to 11 am is our Preschool/STEM End of Year Party and Petting Zoo, Rain date, Tuesday, May 24th. We will use the St. Malachy School Playground and the west lawn of our school. All St. Malachy Catholic Preschool students and parents are invited to our end of year party! Only preschool students and parents may attend – not siblings. If Monday is not a regular attendance day for your child, you will be responsible for your child on this day.
- Please send in a sack lunch and drink for your child the day of the party. If your child has any other allergy related to animals, there will be other activities for them to participate in. If you wish, please bring a blanket or lawn chairs for seating.
- To offset the cost of this fun event, we are asking that each child who plans on attending will donate $6.00 - $10.00. Please send the money in an envelope to school with your child by Wednesday, May 18, marked “End of Year Party.”
- WIPES - even though we are nearing the end of the year, our preschool is in need of more. The wipes may be sent in your child’s backpack or dropped off at the front office.
- TOYS - Please keep toys and stuffed animals at home. We don’t want any home toys to get lost at school.
- CLASS DOJO - Please know that most of the behavior that is reported is very age appropriate, and we will work with each student to correct the behavior. If at any time we have a serious behavior issue that requires immediate attention or are needing extra parent support for a specific behavior, we will notify you via email or phone call.
Dates
- Wednesday, May 11: May Crowning
- Tuesday, May 17: Cans in Hands
- Friday, May 20: Field Day, 1 PM dismissal, WEAR RED
- Monday, May 23: Preschool end of the year party (rain date May 24)
- Thursday, May 26: Fly up Day (visit Kindergarten and learn more about next year)
- Thursday, May 26: Last Day of school, 1 PM dismissal
Pre-K Happenings
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Unit Theme: Dinosaurs |
How are dinosaurs alike and different? |
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Religion |
Our story is, Mary Is Our Mother. Theme: Mary, the mother of Jesus, is our mother too. We will discuss the Holy Family and learn a song, Mary. We will also practice the Hail Mary. Wednesday is May Crowning. |
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Alphabet |
Review of alphabet A - Z and review of Dd. We are learning high-frequency words by rereading Dinosaurs: are, have, can, some. |
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Social-Emotional Development |
Proud to Be Growing: We will continue to learn about working together, complimenting each other, taking turns, helping to clean up and showing kindness. |
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Book Time |
How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? When Dinosaurs Came with Everything. |
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Math |
Dinosaur counting cards with dinosaur toys. |
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Science/Social Studies |
We will be discussing what paleontologists do and learning what tools they use. |
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Art |
We will be making dinosaur eggs with playdough and coffee grounds. |
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Music and Movement |
Dinosaur bean bag toss, Dinosaur Hokey Pokey, We are the Dinosaurs, Alphabet Song (stretching). |
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Writing and Drawing |
Letter writing practice and name writing practice. |
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Sign Language |
Review of sign language. |
Pre-K STEM Happenings
Our theme for the month of May is dinosaurs! The students are loving this! We will use our sensory bin to become paleontologists and discover dinosaur fossils. We will also make fossils with different materials. Our paleontologists will try to excavate chocolate chips from their chocolate chip cookies! Students will do some dinosaur stamping and counting. Dinosaur footprints and masks will round out the week.
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 "Father Abraham” -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A3wOJ_bW5A
