Week 1 (ending September 5th)

Library: Welcome to a new school year! It was wonderful meeting with your kids this week and chatting about our favorite book characters. Next week we will be reading Luna Loves Library Day and will participate in a few movement songs!

Music: Welcome to Preschool Music! It was a joy to meet your children at Orientation this week. I look forward to having class with them! For our first Music class, we will be finding our seats, learning the rules in Music class, and moving through shared space by walking, galloping, jumping, tip-toeing, and running.

Spanish:   Hola! Bienvenidos! It was great to meet everyone this week.  We will start our school year working on routines and our morning son “Buenos dias”. We learned about colors this week (rojo, azul, verde). We will continue to review these colors and start learning numbers 1-5.

PE: Welcome everyone. It’s going to be a fun year in PE. We will start the year with learning some safety rules as well as throwing small objects with one hand and catching with two.

SEL: Hi families! We’re Tiffani Brown, the school counselor, and Lauren Spring, the counseling intern. We’ll be visiting classrooms every other month to teach social-emotional skills like understanding feelings, making friends, and solving problems. Updates from SEL won’t be weekly, but we’ll share highlights ahead of each visit. We’re excited to support your kiddos in growing confidence, kindness, and a sense of belonging!

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Week 2 (ending September 12th)

Library: Next week we will be reading Tiptoe Joe by Ginger Foglesong Gibson and will participate in a few movement songs!

Music: Next week we will be bending, stretching, and walking through shared space. We will also be distinguishing between big and little and up and down. 

Spanish:   Hola! Next week we will learn about numbers and keep practicing colors: rojo, azul, verde. 

PE: We will continue with our hand/eye coordination unit and will add some body movement and balancing skills.

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Week 3 (ending September 19th)

Library: Next week we will be reading The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry, coloring a scarecrow, and will participate in a few movement songs!

Music: Next week we will be walking, galloping, running, and jumping through shared space. We will also be learning the songs “Autumn Leaves” and “I’m a Little Scarecrow.”

Spanish:   Hola! Next week I won’t see my friends due to a field trip.

PE: As last week, we have more to learn with our hand/eye coordination and movement and balancing skills.

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Week 4 (ending September 26th)

Library: Next week we will be reading Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin by Tad Hills and will have an activity to go along with our book!

Music: Next week we will be walking, galloping, and running through shared space and singing songs about scarecrows and leaves. 

Spanish:   Hola! Next week we will read the book “El Monstruo de Colores” (The Color Monster) and learn about feelings. 

PE: Next week we will move into our soccer unit starting with passing with the inside of the foot. 

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Week 5 (ending October 3rd)

Library: Next week we will be reading Who Can Boo the Loudest? by Harriet Ziefert and will have an activity to go along with our book!

Music: Next week we will be reading “The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin” and learning the song. We will also be learning different songs about pumpkins. 

Spanish:   Hola! Next week we will continue learning about feelings and will work on a fun puppet related to The Color Monster book.

STEM: Hi everyone! It’s Mrs. Reeves, and I am the PS-K STEM Teacher! This week, we read Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert, explored the differences between bulbs and seeds, investigated flower bulbs more closely, and planted our very own rainbow of flower bulbs in the Preschool Garden! We can’t wait to see what blooms in the spring! Follow along here: Preschool STEM

PE: With the weather cooling down, we will be heading out onto the cross country course next week. Please be sure to prepare accordingly with correct footwear (tennis shoes, sneakers) and bug spray if you feel it necessary. 

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Week 6 (ending October 10th)

Library: Next week we will be reading Wee Witches Halloween by Jerry Smath and will have an activity to go along with our book!

Music: I will not be seeing your children next week due to the fall break. Have a wonderful long weekend.

Spanish:   Hola! Next week we will finish and play with the puppets we started to create this week.

PE: We will miss PE next week for the fall break. Have fun!

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