Letter Mm & Number 13

We had such a fun week learning about letter Mm!  We started the week by reading Marvin the Monkey and singing silly songs about monkeys.  We read the beautiful book, " The Mitten" by Jan Bret.  We retold the story and then made our own colorful mittens.  We learned all about the number thirteen.  We also had a great time working with M & M's in our Math Center counting them and making patterns with them. On Wednesday and Thursday we had fun M & M Math days.  We all had our own M &M's that we first sorted by color and then graphed.  This class had the most blue M &M's!  On Thursday we worked on making patterns. We each received a pattern card and had to match the candies to the pattern and determine what color would finish the pattern.  We then were able to make our very own patterns and of course eat some M &M's! On Friday, we read our Scholastic books about shadows and watched a video about shadows.  We learned how to make shadows and made our own!  We also read about book about Groundhogs Day and made groundhog crafts.

Please look out for some more information about Valentine's Day, our 100th Day celebration, and
parent conferences soon.  Our meeting in school was delayed due to the snow day.

A Very Snowy Week

With the short week, we had lots of winter fun! We read,"The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats and made our own snowy day pictures.  We read the story "Snowman Magic" by Katherine Tegan and pretended to make snowmen and had our own pretend snowball fight! After the snowball fight the students were amazed to find a number inside their paper snowball and had a great time putting all the numbers in order.  We also read the story, " I'm Like You, You're Like Me!" by Cindy Gainer. This story did a wonderful job at showing how we celebrate our differences.  We also made paper snowflakes and discussed how just like snowflakes we are all different and it is our differences that make us special and unique.

This week we are back on schedule learning about letter Mm and number thirteen. Due to our shortened previous week, I was not able to incorporate all the Jan Brett books into our lesson so we will be reading them through the next few weeks. This week we will read " The Mitten".

Letter Ll & Number 12

Last week we focused on Letter Ll with Larry Lion. We learned all about lions and made lion puppets! Through the week we also learned about ladybugs. We read, " The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle and watched a video about ladybugs and how the grow and change.  We also painted our own beautiful paper plate ladybugs.  We worked on number twelve on Wednesday and Thursday.  We had a wonderful picture day this last Wednesday and had some fun taking pictures in our classroom.  Please see the bottom of this email for some nice class pictures and some silly pictures too!

 

This week we will be discussing Martin Luther King Jr. with the children and what he stood for.  We will be focusing on being kind, friendly, peaceful, and fair.  With the short week we will not be focusing on a specific letter or number.  We will be reading wonderful books by the author Jan Brett.

 

 

Lovely Ladybugs!

 

A photographer was born!

Silly Photo on Picture Day ;)

Letter Kk & Number 11

Last week we focused on getting back into our normal schedule and daily routines.  We learned all about letter Kk with Katy Kangaroo.  On Monday we talked about the diamond shape, the type of weather needed to fly a kite, and we painted our own kites.  Through the week we talked about marsupials with a focus on kangaroos and koalas.  We also had so much fun making hand print koalas! On Wednesday and Thursday we reviewed numbers 1-10 with different activities and songs all while learning our new number eleven.  Through the week we also worked on learning how to spell and recognize color words.

 

Starting this last Monday we have begun to put more focus on learning some short site words.  In our curriculum we have a list of site words for each letter of the week.  I have been using these sites words in our morning messages on the white board since September. In the first half of the year I was introducing periods to show the end of a sentence, questions marks to ask a question and so on.  We also would look for the letter of the week and words that start with the letter of the week.  At this time of the year we have added a chance for each of the students to use our word finder pointer to find words that they already know.  If you have seen our white board these are the words underlined that we all then recite.  We also have other site word learning center games and puzzles that are available for the students to choose to work with.  It is important to know that I am not expecting the children to know all of these site words, but I do believe it is important to expose them to these words during the last half of the year in Pre-K.  If any parents are interested please email me directly and I can give you a copy of these words.

 

This week we are focusing on letter Ll and number twelve.

 

 

Reminders:

 

Picture Day is this Wednesday January 15th.

 

We are closed on Monday, January 20th.

 

Circle time starts at 9AM. Please try to have your child in school and unpacked by 9AM.  I do like to wait for all children to arrive before starting because it is such an important part of our day.

 

If your child will be absent from school, please try to remember to email me or call the school to let us know.  I do try to check my email first thing each morning, during lunch, and at the end of the day.

 

If you are utilizing before-care our doors open at 7:30 AM and then reopen at 8:30AM for our normal day.  Aftercare begins at 2:35 PM in Ms. Kathleen's classroom. 

 

 

Santa's Helpers!

Our little elves hard at work!

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

We had a wonderful week filled with holiday books, crafts, and songs!  This week the children worked on special gifts for their families and beautiful holiday cards. We read many books this week such as  , "If It's Snowy and You Know It Clap Your Paws!" , "The Gingerbread Man" , "The Gingerbread Baby", "Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear" , and"Jingle Bells". 

Through the week we also worked on our gingerbread house and it looks wonderful! We thank Olivia's family for donating it to our school!

We ended our week with our Holiday party singing many songs and enjoyed some cookies and milk with our families.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and a very happy New Year! ! We will reopen on January 6th.