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Friday, January 23, 2026
We had a busy four day week in Pre-K3! We continued with our Winter theme and all things winter, and it even snowed last weekend to cooperate and give these little guys some background knowledge of REAL SNOW! We also learned a new letter, letter Ii, which lends itself nicely to our winter theme with Ii words like ice, icicle, and igloo! We watched the read aloud versions of Iguana On Ice and Bear Snores On. We watched the informational show “Learn About Winter” and a fun show “The Berenstain Bears and The Ice Monster”. We read The Tale of The Black Igloo, as well as other books dealing with Winter and Hibernation, such as: Little Critter Snowball Soup, Bear Can’t Sleep, Little Bear Won’t Sleep, and Time To Sleep. Speaking of hibernation, Mr. Bear came to Morning Meeting every day before we put him in his “Den” to hibernate. Our final activity we did with him on Friday was to tell him where WE would hibernate if we were him! BTW, his “Den” is at the top of our easel!! We gave him a pillow of fluff, zipped him into his sleeping bag, hugged him goodnight, and tucked him into his den! Relating to bears in dens was our Scholastic Big World lesson. “Hey There, Little Polar Bear!”. First, we used our picture clues and “read” it together, then we listened to/watched the read aloud version on the Smart Board. After that, we watched the video “Roly-Poly Polar Bear”, did the dance break “Polar Bears”, and played the game “Pick a Polar Bear”.
We also did some fun Winter art projects! We made a hibernating bear in an igloo, which was the perfect project for “Hibernation” and “Ii” week! We made our very own name snow persons out of the letters in our names, and boy did we bedazzle them! All will be hanging in our room and hallway to make our pre-k wing look like a Winter Wonderland! We also colored a picture of “our school” and told why we love our school. That picture/response is also hanging in the hallway.
In addition to the letter Ii activities above, we did our usual paint dot I paper, our I trace page, and our I hunt page. We did our Starfall Letter I activity on the Smartboard. We had a full chart of I words and pictures which we talked about. We watched “Captain Seasalt And The ABC Pirates- An Incredible Adventure On I Island” and “Olive and The Rhyme Rescue Crew-Letter I”.
We continued with the color Blue, the shape Rectangle, and the number 3, doing songs and worksheets that go with each. We continue to regularly work on writing our names and building our names with our name bags. We also regularly practice using scissors. Our Religion lesson was Chapter 18, “My Church Friends” and we even had to use scissors to cut out shapes of pictures seen in church. Our flag song was “Yankee Doodle”. We had Music, Spanish, Gym, and Library this week. It was WAY too cold and snow covered to go out, but we still had a lot of fun this week!
*****Unfortunately, our Open House has been cancelled for this Sunday. If we happen to NOT have school on Monday and Tuesday, I have sent home some papers for your child to work on. If you have some down time, please also work on: zipping, blowing noses (literally), cutting with scissors, writing first names, and recognizing letters and numbers. Most importantly, play in the snow and drink hot chocolate!!!!!
REMINDERS:
Please wash and return rest mats on Monday, or whenever we make it back from the Blizzard of ‘26 =)
Please remember to update Pickup Patrol DAILY as needed. It needs to reflect your child’s dismissal plans for each day, i.e. Cares, Enrichment, car rider, etc. I usually know where your child is going, but if there was ever a substitute for me, she may not know where to send your child.
Remember to check folders nightly.
Please have your child in school by 8:00. Children arriving after then are held in the foyer and marked late, resulting in them missing prayers, pledges, and announcements.
Please ensure that your child goes to the bathroom at home before coming to school. Too many friends are not making it to our bathroom time. This is especially important now that we go to the gym for Prayers and Announcements at arrival time. The toilets/sinks down there are much bigger and harder to reach.
Remember that if you need to pick up your child early, it needs to be at 11:45, before we get into children’s lunchtime, staff lunchtime, bathroom time, and nap time. Please understand that this is for the safety of your child and so we are not walking the halls at random times while our big friends are learning…not to mention the dreaded taboo of waking sleeping three-year-old's during happy nappy. Thanks for understanding =)
If you could kindly let me know if someone in your house is away (or for any reason you feel may have your child a little “off”), it would be a big help so we can give extra hugs and reassurance!
Please continue to monitor your child’s health/symptoms. We are in the flu and allergy season! We are really working on coughing and sneezing into our “GERM CATCHERS” (elbows). For the health of us all, please keep your child home when they exhibit symptoms or are not feeling well. They don’t yet understand how to cough/sneeze into elbows, blow noses, etc.
Please send your child with a coat now that the weather is cold, and practice putting coats on (The Flip) and taking them off, fixing their sleeves.
We are really working on independence with activities of daily living (shoes, toileting, opening lunch items, cleaning up, packing/unpacking, etc.). Please encourage this at home. Please practice especially opening and closing the Bento boxes! My mottoes are: “If you don’t try, you will never learn” and “I will help you with ANYTHING and EVERYTHING...as long as you TRY first”!!! Hint...they can do WAY more than they let on =)
Just a reminder to send lunch choices that your child likes and can eat independently and relatively “easily”. Please send napkins daily and utensils as needed.
Please save Popcorn for a home snack. Popcorn is not recommended for children under four and can be a choking hazard. Please cut grapes in half for the same reason.
Happy Weekend!!
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