April News!
Hello! I can't believe April is already here! We had our Easter Egg Hunt on Tuesday! The Sedgwick County Zoo will also be visiting us the last week of April, and a permission slip has been sent home. Please make sure to send in your money as they are requiring everyone to pay ahead of time this year.
If anyone is going to request for us write a special message in a book for your kiddo, ex) Oh the Places You'll Go or The Wonderful Things You Will Be, please send it in early to give us time to write in them. We love the idea and we want to write something meaningful, so please give us some time to do so! Thanks!
If you have any group pictures (whole group or small group) of the kids from any class parties, Thanksgiving parade,etc. please email them to me! I want to make memory books for the kids and I don't have very many group pictures from those events! Thank you so much for your help!
Miss Roberts will be available this summer for tutoring. Please reach out if you are interested or have any questions! :)
Important Dates:
April 24th: No School
April 28th: Am (3's) Zoo Visit
Looking Ahead:
May 14th- 3 yr old Preschool last day of school
During the last week of school, we will have fun dress up days! Stay tuned for details.
April Themes: Flowers, Earth Day
Learning Objectives:Letters- W, X, Y, & Z, reviewing all capital & lowercase letters, Numbers- 0-20, counting up and down, Shapes- reviewing 2D shapes, Colors- Rainbow Colors and Mixing Colors. We will continue working on strengthening fine motor and gross motor skills, recognizing first names, pencil grip, scissor practice, gluing, positional words, 1 to 1 correspondence, patterns, singing the alphabet, letters and sounds, number and shape identification, concepts of print, and rhyming.
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Angel of God, Grace Before Meals, May 1st- May Crowning
Fancy Word: Vibrant,Breezy
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How you can help at home:
- I highly encourage working on both fine motor and gross motor skills at home. There are hundreds of ways they can work on these skills while playing. Pinterest and even TikTok are fast and easy places to find ideas!
- 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.
- Prek- we are really working on recognizing and saying the letters in our names. (capital first letter, then lowercase)
Thank you for everything you do for your child and their learning! You are so valuable!