Pre-K Highlights
September 10th – September 14th
Weekly Theme: Back to School / Feelings and Emotions
Skill Development: Circles and Ovals
It was so wonderful meeting all of you at our orientation on Friday! We are even more excited after spending some time with you to start a new year in Pre-K. We have so many wonderful things planned for our upcoming school year!
This week we will be focused on creating the initial structure of routines and responsibilities for our classroom. The children will begin learning the routines that allow for our schedule to flow and for them to maximize their time at our school. As a class, we will create the rules for the classroom and will learn: how to transition from one activity to the next, how to sit and participate during our morning and afternoon meetings, and how to share the classroom space.
All week we will be singing numerous “name songs” so that everyone gets to know each other and feels comfortable all year round. Everyday our “Do Now” will be to trace our first names. During structured centers, students will create self-portraits and use Play-doh to reflect different kinds of emotions. Our skill development for the week will consist of recognizing and learning how to draw both circles and ovals. We will be creating an all about me page, painting with vegetables to go along with one of our stories How are you Peeling by Saxon Freymann, and much more.
Weekly Literature:
How are you Peeling by Saxon Freymann
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech
The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
How to Get Your Teacher Ready by Jean Reagan
Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont
My School’s a Zoo! By Stu Smith
My Many Colored Days by Dr.Seuss
Glad Monster, Sad Monster by, Ed Emberley &Anne Miranda
Reminders:
- If you have not done so already, please complete and sign off forms and emergency contact card information as soon as possible.
- Pizza day is Wednesday. Please send in water and a snack for your child.
- Please sign your child in and out of school on the sign in sheet each day.
- Please label all your child’s supplies with a permanent marker/label.
- Please review the supply list that includes a two pocket folder, an oversized short sleeve T-shirt as a smock, a complete change of seasonally appropriate clothes sealed in a Ziploc bag, one 4 x 6 family photo for our family tree, a 4 x 6 current photo of your child, and headphones in a labeled Ziploc bag.
Warm Regards,
Ms. Kasey and Mrs. G
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