Can you believe it's almost the end of our 1st Pre-K school year!?!?!? Myself and Miss Leida just can't believe how quickly it has flown by! We have really enjoyed working with your children this past year. We feel that for our first Pre-K class, everything went very well. We can't speak highly enough about you and your children. The STMM teachers are always asking about our Pre-Kers and all we can say are great things! They have surpassed our expectations and we are very proud of them. We know that they need to move on to Kindergarten (most of them we will get to see around STMM next year) but we will miss them dearly! Miss Leida and I would like to thank all of your support and your ideas! Your families will always hold a special place in our hearts!
Here are a few "wind up" reminders:
- We will be off of school on May 16th because of STMM track and field day. Pre-K is certainly invited to come and check it out, however it is a bit of a crazy (but fun) day. Therefore, Mrs. Haug didn't feel comfortable holding class that day.
- Last day of Pre-K will be on May 21st. That day we will have an end of the year ceremony. We will have a small program and an ice cream party durning your child's regular class time. It will be a shortened class time and the children will leave with you immediately afterward.
As we're winding up the school year we are busier than ever!! We are focusing on our Handwriting Without Tears. We've filled our past months with holiday themes and activities. Therefore, it's been difficult to fit in our writing with all of our parties and celebrations. Because we have no days off and no special parties we feel as if April is a great month to really get to work! Every day we will be working on 1 - 2 letters. We also work on forming certain shapes that are formed similarly to the letters we are working on. So far the kids are really enjoying their writing. We practice on our individual chalk boards and are using roll-a-dough for even more practice. They are doing very well. We are also trying to explain to the kiddos the value of taking their time and not rushing. So far we have mastered the letters F,E,H, & rectangles.
For the week of 4/7 - 4/11 we will be forming T,I,U,C&O. This week is also the International Week of the Ocean (my favorite!) We talked about fish - God made fish, the fish stories of the Bible. Wednesday will be God made water and on Friday is Beach Day - Yea! We will have a beach party. Have the children wear their flip-flops - beach attire. Bring their beach towels, beach balls, sunglasses, etc. Collin and Rachel are our leaders for that day. Maybe they could bring a special "beachy" snack for their leader day.
Week of 4/14-4/18 - National Literacy week. Our pre-K classes will be visiting our STMM school librarian Mrs. Baralett! She is wonderful and the kids will love her. This way they'll get a little intro to how things work in the library for next year. We will be working on the letters Q,G,S,& J. We've been incorperating nursery rhymes in our lessons throughout our school year, but we will focus a little more on those and fairy tales - the differences and similarities.
Week of 4/21-4/25 - Earth week - On Monday we will have our Earth day (it's really on the 22nd) Letters D,B,P,K,A& triangles. Arbor day in on the 25th. We will also work in our religion books God Made Land, God Made Air & Light, God Made Trees.
Week of 4/28-4/30 - April is also Animal/Pet observatory month. We finished our God made animals chapter during our first week of April, while talking about the circus. We'll wind up Animal/Pet observatory month with birds and our spring frogs and toads.
HAPPY APRIL!
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