November News!

Hello!

I first want to thank everyone who donated items and helped out with our Halloween parties! We truly appreciate it and we had so much fun! If you haven't yet, please make sure to sign the envelope of your child's report card and return it to school. You can keep the physical report card, we just need the signed envelope back.

Thanksgiving Parade!

The beloved Preschool Thanksgiving Parade is back for another year!! This will take place at the very end of the school day, before your child goes home for Thanksgiving break.  The parade will be on November 19th. They will be learning all about the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and creating their own balloons to parade around the school. Assuming there won't be any funerals taking place, we will walk out through the church gathering space. If you would like to see them parade out with their balloons, you are welcome to meet us in the gathering space! We will dismiss from the church doors on this day. If there is a funeral, we will go out and dismiss the way we usually would for funerals (at the flagpole).

Pre-k Library Books: Mrs. Stewart is allowing the students to check out books from her personal collection of books. Please make sure to handle them with care and return them (with the bag it came in) on Wednesday's so your child can check out a new book!

A couple reminders:

• We will continue to go outside so please send coats! If you send your child with gloves, mittens work best at school. They are much easier for them to put on independently. In addition to this, please have your child practice putting on and taking off their coats independently. We appreciate your help!

• If your child has a June, July, or early August birthday they may bring a treat on their half birthday which will be December, January, or February. Please just let me know beforehand so we can prepare hats for them.

• Now is also a good time to change out your child’s extra clothes in their backpacks to winter clothes. Accidents do happen, including playground and paint accidents! 

• Make sure to call the office if your child is absent. It is also helpful to shoot me an email as well.

Important Dates:

Nov. 19th: Parade

Nov. 20th: No School

Nov. 23rd-27th: No School for Thanksgiving Break

Show and Tell:

Nov. 2-6: Letter C

Nov. 9-13: Letter O

Nov. 16-19: No new letter

Nov. 30-Dec. 4:Letter Q

Dec. 7-11:Letter G

Dec. 14-18:Letter S

Looking Ahead:

• We will be doing a few fun activities during the month of December! I will be sending out a sign up genius in weeks to come if you would like to donate items.

• Dec. 7th: No School

• Dec. 8th: No School

• Dec. 18th: Half Day

• Christmas Break: Dec. 21nd-January 4th

• Classes Resume January 5th

November Themes: 5 senses, Thanksgiving, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Learning Intentions:

Letters- C, O, & Q

Numbers- 6-10.

Colors- yellow and brown.

Shapes- circle and oval. 

We will continue working on strengthening fine motor and gross motor skills, recognizing/writing first names, pencil grip, scissor practice, gluing, 1 to 1 correspondence, patterns, alphabet, letters and sounds, number and shape identification, vowels/consonants, identifying beginning and ending sounds, rhyming and syllables.

Fancy Words: 

Learning Disposition (Seton 6): Persevere, Curious

Religion Lessons: Sign of the Cross, Grace Before Meals, and Angel of God. We will continue talking about Saints & Jesus’ Mother Mary!!

How you can help at home:

• Have your child practice putting on their coat independently.

• Have your child practice covering their mouth when they sneeze/cough. As well as using a tissue to blow their nose rather than picking their nose. We have had lots of sickness going around and we want to avoid spreading more germs as much as possible.

• When singing the alphabet, I encourage you to sing it to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb. We sing it this way because it helps the students slow down and ensures they are saying each letter. Especially letters L, M, N, O, P, that typically get skipped when singing it the traditional way.

• Using the name zero when referring to number 0. Many of them are having trouble differentiating letter O and zero. I especially see this when we are working on birthdays, addresses and phone numbers. 

• When working on letter sounds, make sure you and your child are not adding the schwa (/uh/) sound at the end. For example, the sound for letter b is /b/ not /buh/ and the sound for letter t is /t/ not /tuh/. Here is a link to a quick video explaining what this means-schwa video

• We are really working on spelling and writing our names properly (capital first letter, then lowercase)

We are always updating our classroom wishlist!  We appreciate all donations! 

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/P0IPYGO58ZAR?ref_=wl_share 

Thank you for sharing your children with us!!

Miss Brown & Mrs. Kratz :)