Preschool Site

Welcome to St. Elizabeth's PreK classroom and welcome to our 2025-2026 Pre-K Google site. On this site, I will keep you updated on weekly learning objectives and information. I will also post pictures of our students for you to get a glimpse of our daily learning activities and fun.

At St. Elizabeth, our biggest goal is to teach to the "whole child." That means we will do more than learn our ABC's and 123's. Besides academics, your child's future success also depends on developing their social and emotional skills and beginning to develop their faith. Because we are 3 & 4 years old, my goal is to accomplish most of this through play. Play is extremely important to keep your child interested, motivated and engaged as they learn and have fun in PreK!

I look forward to getting to know you and your child and watch their amazing development throughout the school year as your child grows as a learner.

Thank you,

Susan Molloy

2025 - 2026 PreK Family Tree

Week 9/8 - 9/12

Last week I decided to make a few changes in how we do our center time. We need more structure to be more effective at our teacher tables. I love having the class have free choice during center time, but right now it isn't working. I have paired the kids up. They stay with their partners throughout center time and switch centers when the bell rings. I started this midweek and so far, the results are exactly what we need.

Learning letter "L". Each letter and number that we learn will be practiced using "rainbow letters", which just means we trace over each letter and number 3 or 4 times.

Identify, trace and write letter "L".

Name practice

Fishing for numbers, identifying and putting them in the correct order.

Rolling the die or dice, counting dots and coloring the picture that matches the number.

Identify the number then use the hole punch to put that amount of holes in the paper.

Reviewing shapes and learning how to stencil.

Maybe the most perfect activity ever! Reviewing colors, shapes, fine motor AND self-control ;)

I think, I'm hoping we are now ready to have the "Problem Solver of the Day" become a new responsibility for the kids. Everyday, we have opportunities to solve problems that arise in class. We have gone over the many ways we can solve our problems. Walking away, ignoring, asking a friend to please stop or asking our new Problem Solver for help are a few. Most kids will embrace this role when it's their turn. I explain to them their parents or teachers will not always be there to help them, they have to learn to help themselves and solve problems. As they learn how to practice the many strategies of solving problems, the adults in the room will be listening and guiding them through this important job.

Ending the week with a little Limbo dancing, they loved it!!

Free play

Week 9/15 - 9/19 Learning Objectives:

Who is Jesus?/Adam and Eve
Letter "F"/name practice
One to one correspondence counting and identifying numbers/#2
All about our emotions and how to handle them
Following directions activities

Reminders:

Daisy will be our snack friend this week.
If you are practicing on identifying letters or writing your child's name at home, please use only uppercase letters for now. I will continue with uppercase only throughout the year for our 3 yr. old's. Probably sometime after Christmas we will start learning lowercase letters in names for our 4 yr. old's.
Please try and clean out your child's blue folders at least every few days, you may be missing some important info.
Picture day will be this Friday, 9/19. Students are to wear their mass uniforms. Pictures taken in the spring will be casual dress.
Please save the date of Friday 10/10. We will be having our student led conferences. This will be our only formal conference. A sign up email will be coming to reserve your time.

Thank you and have a blessed week.