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Star-of-the-Week is Catherine.  She will bring in a poster, a Friday treat, a favorite book, a parent letter, and an item to share on different days during the week. Instructions will be in the Friday folder for all to preview for when it is your child’s turn.  It’s simple and fun!!

Theme/Letter-Dinosaurs & Eggs/D & E

Dinosaurs theme has lots of fun learning opportunities.  We make salt dough dinosaur eggs, stomp our dinosaurs feet in paint, use medicine droppers to melt our frozen dinosaur eggs then find a mini Dino in it, plus lots more!!  We read, craft, learn letter sounds and words and our room turns into a prehistoric land which makes for such fun play.  Be sure to discuss what happens each day at school with your child.  The children are always very proud of what we do!

Birthday Lunch is Wednesday.

Religion-Many people love and care for us.

Math/Science Sensory Boxes-Everyone has their own big plastic scrapbook box.  This month it is filled with seed corn, measuring tools, counting cubes, spoons, a 6 person family, horses, etc.  We explore using our senses and our imaginations to play!

Have a great weekend!

Thanks for all the birthday theme donations. Father Don dropped by the church prayer garden during our party and helped us sing Happy Birthday to the class twin pets – Petry and Horace. We learned that Fr. Don is also a twin!!  It was such a fun time. Thanks to Mrs. Carper for our treat bags, etc…. Mrs. Carper will be our Room Mom this year!  We look forward to lots more fun.

Theme/Letter-Corn & Fall/Cc

This week we will learn all about corn, shuck corn outside (fine motor), paint with the ears, bake corn bread in the crock pot, learn about farms, play with feed corn and animals in our sensory bins, do an Indian corn experiment, hear corn stories and lots more!

Letter C Bags will come home Monday and be due back Thursday.  They are so excited to share their bags!!

Math-Patterns with paper chains, counting, recognizing numerals, calendar math, 1-1 correspondence

Religion-Friends help one another.

‘Star of the Week’ will begin the first full week of October.  We will do these in ABC order.  I will send home instructions in the Friday folder next week so you can anticipate what it entails.  It’s very simple, though.

Big Brown Craft Bags filled with fun stuff we have made came home Friday. You will get these every so often. We have all not completely memorized our birthdays and addresses, so continue to practice with your child. Sometimes they’d try so hard remembering, but they’d say their bday was the person who went before them when I’d be asking them all. Lol.

Have a great weekend!

Theme-Birthday’s.  We will continue this theme a second week  To help memorize our birthdays we made fun sensory bottles with our bdays ‘cricut cut’ and adhered to the outside of the bottles. Lots of stories and activities have helped us celebrate each other’s special days.

Petry and Horace Birthday Party-Your child is invited to our class pets’ birthday party at school next Friday. Petry and Horace are twin dinosaurs who live in our classroom all week and they watch our behaviors. Every Friday, they chose a friend who’s behaved very nicely all week to take them home for the weekend. It’s an honor to get to take them home.
Also-no gifts necessary for our party!

Letter-Bb.  The ‘B Bag’ will be homework which will be due back to school next Thursday.  We are learning how to print our letters correctly, the sounds they make, and words that begin with each letter.

Scholastic Book Order-There is a new book order form in your Friday folder  If desired, please place your order online within the next 2 weeks using the class code I’ve listed on the form.  We earn rewards for the orders you place and stock our library with new books from it.

Reading Center with Mrs. Price is every Wednesday.  Please keep your child’s reading center book in their book bag so they’ll be able to get a new one each week. It is supposed to ‘live’ in your child’s backpack per Mrs. Price’s request.

Star-of-the-Week-One child will be chosen each week to be the class star.  If your child is chosen, info will be sent home with instructions for the week.  Everyone will get a turn!

Math-Counting to 100, 1-1 Correspondence, Board games, Recognizing and printing numerals, Patterning

Religion-Our families are special.

Birthday Lunch-Once a month a day is designated as bday lunch day and an ice cream cup is served with hot lunch.  This is meant to be a celebration of all Sacred Heart children’s bdays in that month.

Have a great weekend!

Theme-Birthdays. As we play in our centers we  will be building math, literacy, science, and social skills!  Please look inside your Friday folder for a list of party items you can donate for this fun theme. It’s going to be a blast!!

Letter-Aa. Homework is in your Friday folder and it’s a brown bag with instructions stapled to it to bring an ‘A’ item to school next Thursday. With each letter we will repeat this activity which is a fun show and tell type experience, but it involves the letter of the week. Your item must fit inside the bag and please keep it a Secret as we will have fun listening to clues about it, then taking our guesses.

Math-Counting to 100, Recognizing numerals, 1-1 Correspondence

Religion-Belonging.  As we make new friends in preschool we will be helped to feel we belong here and as such are a special part of our group.

Snacks-Please pack separately from lunch in an easy to access outside pocket of the book bag.

FridayFolder-Please send any correspondence to school in this folder on Mondays. If you do send something in the backpack on another day, please send a text so I can retrieve it as we don’t search through backpacks necessarily daily.  Thank you.

Have a great weekend!!!

Reminders:

No School Labor Day

Open House-Wednesday evening, Parents Only,  6:00 session OR 6:30 session -choose one.  Please tell me if you will not attend.

Snack-Please pack your child’s snack separately from their lunch. We have snack each morning.

Lunch-Hot or Cold?  Please be sure your child knows which lunch they will have. They place their ‘lunch guy’ in a pocket chart near the door on arrival. If you’d like them to have a milk with their packed lunch, please send me a note.

Afternoon Dismissal is 2:00-2:20 at glass door of our wing on Quarrier Street IF your child has no older siblings.  They must be picked up there. After care children stay in the classroom with Miss Tonja or myself until we deliver them to their teacher at 2:30. Children with older siblings go with me to the gym at 2:30 where I wait with them until you arrive in alley. The system is running smoothly!

We are continuing our introduction to routines  and behaviors and other essential skills which will lay a strong foundation to a wonderful and productive and fun Pre-K experience!

Theme/Letter-All About Me/Our Names-Our centers reflect our theme as do books read, and art projects created.  I continue a theme as long as there is interest and info to learn!  I have read aloud at least 30 books on our topic so far.

Math-Counting, Recognizing and Writing Numbers, Patterning, Measuring, Sorting, Math Games

Religion-Beginnings-To help the children experience their new group as a warm, welcoming community of friends.

Self-Help-Wiping on potty, Hanging Bookbag, Cleaning up After Self, Opening Snacks, Expressing Self through Words

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!  Thanks for sharing your beautiful children.  We are off to a fabulous start!

NEWSLETTERS which I send you through The Remind App take you to my class page, but it is the LIVE website and you can access the current day for lunch, etc…if you go back later to your Remind message.

Theme/Letter-All About Me/Singing the alphabet

We continue to practice class rules and behaviors and making green (good) choices.
The children are enjoying lots of books read aloud about feelings and situations they are encountering in Pre-K.  They are playing together wonderfully, already!  It takes a few weeks to adjust to school and get in the groove, but consistency is the key. Your child should be able to tell you our timeline of activities at school as we stick to a similar schedule each day, barring special classes which are different. This consistency gives the kids comfort in knowing what will happen here and thus ownership over their day. We are busy every second and it sure is fun!!

Our Specials:

Monday-Computer Lab, Mrs. Haas
Wednesday-Reading Center, Mrs.Price
Thursday-Music, Mrs. Haas
Friday-PE, Mrs. Mullen

Outside Recess-Daily, 10:30-11

Math-Counting to 100

Religion-I am special.

Thanks for all the supplies.   It’s wonderful to have such supportive families.

Parent/Teacher Meeting-Wednesday, Sept. 8,  6:00 meeting OR 6:30 meeting, your choice!  Info will be sent home if you don’t attend.  Please wear a mask.

REMIND APP-please send me a message if your spouse would like to be enrolled.  When you text a message it goes to me only.  Thanks!!

Welcome to Pre-K 3!

Wednesday is Meet-the-Teacher at 8:30, 9:30 or 10:30 am. We will have a scavenger hunt to become familiar with our new classroom. Students will take home a huge cardboard-person cut-out to decorate for our ‘All About Me’ theme.  Parents will receive a take home folder explaining Pre-K specifics and forms to complete. It should be a wonderful morning!!

Thursday is half day with dismissal at 11:00.  Please send a snack

Friday is a full day with pick up at 2:10. Please send a blanket for nap and a snack and lunch.

Thank you!