Welcome to the Purple Room!

Your Teachers! 

We are all so happy to spend our day with you!

       Ms. Terry             Miss Sheila                                  WELCOME!

  Inclusion Teacher      Paraprofessional          

Week of 08/31/2026:

Hello Purple Room Families! 

We hope you are enjoying a wonderful holiday weekend! Reminder: There is no school tomorrow for the Labor Day Holiday.

We had a really nice week, the children are settling in quite well! They are following our classroom routines and adjusting as we add more structures to our day, one new aspect at a time. This week, we started adding classroom jobs, taking turns as helpers. We now have a daily Line Leader, Calendar Helper, a Bell Ringer, Name Tag Helper, and a weekly Weather Helper! The children are great at knowing the picture cues that guide our daily schedule, and have begun separating center time stations and activities from our table time activities. 

We introduced our color and shape of the month: Red - Circle. The children have name tags made on red circles and we now sign into school right after circle time and before starting centers, or table time. (Their sign in tags will change monthly using the color and shape of the month, so as we switch each month and send the tags home, feel free to keep them all for color, shape, and name recognition practice.) We played a game sorting red and not red toys as well as finding things in the classroom that are red. After sorting, we counted each group to see which had more, less, or if the amounts were equal.  Any day this week, the children are invited to wear something RED if they would like. We will count how many people are wearing red each day!

Your children have drawn lovely pictures of themselves in August, we posted them on the wall in the hallway. They also used daubers and/or stickers to decorate the first letter of their name. We read the book "Our Class is a Family" and talked about all the ways we can be a classroom family. We reviewed our classroom rules which all are about being kind to ourselves, our friends, and our classroom! Being kind to one another, helping each other out, taking turns, and cleaning up our toys are all ways we make a classroom family and the Purple Room a happy place to be!

I have been spending time seeing where our children are with the basics of pre academic skills, meaning: color, shape, number and letter knowledge. Rote counting and one to one counting, as well as recognizing their name in print. And finally, we have been looking at all the trees surrounding our playground and school, noting the green leaves. We read an intro to the four seasons and have painted the first of our four seasons trees - The Summer Tree. This activity is the first of many over the course of the year, as we understand the changes in weather, dress, and activiy when the seasons change.  

In this upcoming week, we will focus on our September theme: ALL ABOUT ME!

And just like that, Preschool has begun!

Thank you,

Ms. Terry & Miss Sheila 

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