Week of November 16-25
IMPORTANT DATES
Nov. 19: PTO and SAC meetings are Thursday November 19, 2009.
Nov. 25: Grandparent’s Day—The Mass will be at 8:30 am. Visiting classrooms and doing activities will follow a meeting in the Parish Center. Our campus will close at noon. All of our students are invited to participate in this event. If your child doesn’t usually attend on Wednesdays, they may join us with their grandparents around 9:45, (After the meeting in the Parish Center.)
Nov. 26-27: Thanksgiving Holiday
PLEASE NOTE
Operation Christmas Child Schedule:
Nov, 16—Please bring your child’s gifts to contribute to their team’s shoe box. You may want to refer to the suggested list.
First Grade Thanksgiving Baskets:
Please turn in your food and money $2 as soon as possible. The first grade class puts together Thanksgiving baskets for families who would not be able to afford a Thanksgiving dinner.
Pre-K Parent Conferences:
Nov. 20-Dec 3—A sign up schedule will be posted this week. I’m looking forward to meeting with parents and sharing all the wonderful things their children have been doing in preschool.
CURRICULUM:
We will be teaching about Family and Thanksgiving. Our Zoo-phonics animal is Francy Fish. This week for Large Motor: The children will be riding bikes and jumping on hippity hop balls. Every Tuesday and Thursday before lunch we do the calendar, practice Zoo-phonics animals and Spanish shapes and colors.
Monday, November 16, Linda’s teaching plan
Literature: I will be reading “Swimmy” by Leo Lionni. This story is bout a little fish who protects his friends.
Creative arts: Our students will be decorating their own fish with colored tissue paper.
Zoo-phonics: Our students will make a letter F book
Big Buddies: Operation Christmas Child Project: We will be packing our boxes with gifts and pray for the children who will be receiving them.
Safety lesson: This week’s personal safety lesson will be about finding and playing with weapons.
Journals: The children will draw in their journals about their safety lesson.
Afternoon Curriculum: Today I will read “Autumn’s First Leaf” by Steve Metzger. Our students will decorate paper leaves.
Tuesday, November 17, Penny’s teaching plan
Literature: "Ten Little Fish," by Audrey Wood. This is a fish counting book.
Prewriting: The children will practice the letters Ff as in Francy Fish.
Spanish: Reviewing shapes and colors.
Fine motor skills: The children will be drawing family pictures. Using crayons helps them develop their small motor muscles because they have to press harder than when using markers.
Cooking: The children will be eating fish sticks for snack.
Safety lesson: Linda will teach a personal safety lesson
Journals: The children will draw in their journals about their safety lesson.
Afternoon: “Are You My Mother?” by Dr. Suess. This is about a little bird trying to find his mother. The children will be using rubber bands on nail boards to make shapes and they will be doing a crayon rubbing experiment.
Wednesday, November 18, Linda’ teaching plan
Literature: Today I will be reading “The Relatives Came” by Cynthia Rylant. This comical story helps our students recall fun memories with their families.
Prewriting: Our students will be drawing pictures of their grandparents and recall special memories.
Creative art: Our students will paint with sponge brushes to decorate leaves with fall colors.
P.E.: Our students will work on their endurance skills by jogging around the track.
Prewriting: Our students will practice writing their name by focusing writing the letters on a base line.
Afternoon: Our students will play a charades game.
Thursday November 19, Penny’s teaching plan
Early Morning Activity: The children will begin painting Francy Fish and they will be doing a letter f activity.
Chapel Time: Every Thursday: Mrs. Julie Wouters will be picking a Bible Story for the children to hear when the other group goes to the adoration chapel from 8:45- 9:15 a.m.
Worship Movement: 9:15- 9:45a.m. Mrs. Lina Marion will join us for adoration. She will teach Worship Movement class. The children have been dancing and moving to the Hail Mary, The Our Father and Peter the Fisherman. The children are also practicing their Christmas song.
Literature: "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish," by Dr. Suess.
Preschool Group: The preschool children will be tracing their names with glue and putting beans on the letters to their names. This is a fine motor activity. This helps the children see the letters to their names, they use their small fine motor muscles the picking up beans and placing the on the glue.
Afternoon Literature: "More, More, Said the Baby," by Vera Williams. This is about families that do things together. The children will be painting pictures of their families.
Friday, November 20, Olivia's teaching plan
Literature: "Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale" by; Marcus Pfister is an exciting adventure about Rainbow fish and his friends crossing paths with a big blue whale. The gentle creature loves watching the sparkling fish play, but because of his size, the little fish are suspicious and assumes he is up to no good. The misunderstanding quickly escalates as, hurt and angry, the whale lashes out at them. It's up to Rainbow fish to save them all from disaster.
Cooking activity: Today we will be making flower biscuits practicing cutting skills while following directions.
Math exploration: Our students will be writing numbers 1 thru 5, then cutting and coloring 5 fish to glue into a fish bowl.
Language arts: The children will be writing both upper and lower case letter "F" using D'Nealian manuscript handwriting. Also we will be writing in our journals reforming our story about Rainbow fish.
Science exploration: Today we will be making salt dough. While observing the change of two solid and one liquid creating a dough and forming a fish.
Friday Afternoon Literature: “What Mommies Do Best and What Daddies Do Best," by Laura Numeroff. The children will make books about their Mommies and Daddies.
Monday, November 23, Linda’s teaching plan
Literature: Today I will be reading “A Plump and Perky Turkey” by Teresa Bateman. In this comical story, citizens of a town try to lure a plump turkey for their Thanksgiving Feast.
Creative arts: Our students will be creating their own turkeys with colorful feathers.
Math exploration: Our students will play various counting and sorting games.
Big Buddies: Our Big Buddies will be planning some fun activities for our students.
Safety lesson: Our lesson today is about what to do if you become separated from your parents in a public place.
Journal writing: Our students will be drawing about the lesson and recall the safety rule.
Afternoon Literature: Today I will be reading “Giving Thanks” by Chief Jake Swamp. This story is a Native American story. Our students will draw what they are thankful for in nature.
Tuesday, November 24, Penny’s teaching plan
Literature: "Just Grandma and Me," by Mercer Mayor. This is about Little Critter and his grandma doing things together. "Making Memories," by Janet Oake is a book is about a child and his Grandfather making memories together.
Creative art: The children will be drawing a picture of their Grandmothers and Grandfathers.
Prewriting: The children will do a review page of letters D, E and F.
Prewriting: We will split into Pre-Kindergarten and Preschool groups. The preschool group will be practicing writing letters to their names.
Wednesday, November 25, Linda’ teaching plan
Our schedule today will be a little different due to Grandparents Day. From 8:30-10:00 we will be having share time, snack and outdoor play.
Literature: When our guests arrive, I will read “Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth” by Douglas Wood. In this story a young boy recalls his walks in the woods with his grandfather.
Creative art: Our students will decorating moss wreaths with leaves and other fall items.
Dismissal time is 12:00
Dear Parents,
We hope and pray that you all have a blessed Thanksgiving. We thank God for you and your children. Thank you for choosing Saint Rose Preschool.
Love, Mrs. Linda Lawrence, Miss Penny Ojeda and Mrs. Olivia Watson
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