WHAT'S HAPPENING IN PRE-K:  WEEK OF MAY 13th - 17th

Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend and a very Happy Mother's Day!

THANK YOU so much for your thoughtfulness in all you did 

to make us feel special and appreciated for Teacher Appreciation Week!!!

COMMUNITY GATHERING:

• Not attending this week.

FIELD DAY & END OF YEAR PICNIC:  THIS FRIDAY, MAY 17th

• An email/SignUpGenius from our homeroom moms - Kelley and Marcela - was sent out last week asking for volunteers to help with the picnic.

• Field Day:  Garden Level students will participate in various games throughout the morning. Games will be led by teachers and 8th graders.

• All students will be gifted a Field Day t-shirt by the school.  Thank you for completing the size order form.

• Picnic: All parents are invited to attend from 12:00-1:30pm:)

PRE-K CLOSING CELEBRATION:  MONDAY, JUNE 3rd - 10:15am Chorale Room

• Letter with details has been sent home.

• How are those lines coming along?  Keep practicing at home!!!

• Thank you for helping your child practice their Letter Person lines.  We will be practicing throught the week.

FRIENDLY REMINDER:  

• Please dress your child in layers so that they are comfortable throughout the day and able to adjust to the changing weather this time of year.

LOOKING AHEAD - PRE-K EVENT CALENDAR

• Please see 23-24 Pre-K Calendar tab for important dates.

D.E.A.R. TIME (Drop Everything and Read):

• A new SignUpGenius for the month of May has been emailed.  This will be the last opportunity of the year to come in and read to the class.  To sign up to read, please CLICK HERE  

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS:  

• May orders are DUE this Friday, May 17th - please see "Scholastic Books" to place your order.

• There are some great summer reading books and this will be the last opportunity to order for this school year. 

OUTREACH:

CAN TABS FOR THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE:

• Thank you and keep saving those can tabs and sending them in.  

• All tabs due Thursday, May 16th

• See "outreach" tab for details.  

H.O.P.E. SNACKS:

• See "Outreach - H.O.P.E. Snacks" tab for details.

• Wednesday, May 15th - last H.O.P.E. Snack 

• A decorated brown bag will be sent home with your child this week.

CURRICULUM THEME 9:  CHANGES           WEEK 2&3 TOPICS: Earth Changes and Nurturing Earth

This week we will combine the topics for weeks 2 and 3 as we continue to learn about and discuss changes, specifically focus on the earth.

Week 2 - Earth Changes:  The children will explore earth changes that include weather, day and night, and seasons.  They will explore the sun's power to notice the energy it brings to the earth.

Week 3 - Nurturing Earth:  The children will explore and appreciate the beauty and the resources of the earth.  They will discover ways to protect animals, plants and all the natural resources the earth provides.

CALENDAR:

• Seasons of the year, months of the year, days of the week (yesterday was, today is, tomorrow will be), count by rote and recognize numbers 1-31

READING:

• Read, discuss, compare and contrast, and sequence the following stories:  What is Weather?; Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter; A Tree's Life; Thank You Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet; Kate, Who Tamed the Wind; Nature's Giants; The Earth Book; Anywhere Farm; The Water Princess

LITERACY:

Our focus will continue to be on letter sounds, identification and production. 

• Specific focus going forward will be on letter sounds to correctly identify and produce each letter sound for letters P, Q, R, S as we revisit with our letter Letter People.

• Aa-Zz letter recognition, naming and differentiation (uppercase and lowercase).  

• Rhyme recognition and generation

• Alliteration

• Compound Words

• Syllables (sound and clap out words in parts to count the number of syllables in a word)

WRITING/FINE MOTOR/LWT:

• Number Booklets - Trace to learn how to write number: 8 using LWT method

• Journal Writing - Independently write letters: P, Q, R, S and numbers: 9 using the Learning Without Tears (LWT) method and drawing a corresponding picture for each letter

• Use "A-Ok" grip

• Draw shapes

• Color

• Correctly hold and use scissors with control

• Please use the following Learning Without Tears (LWT) charts as guidelines for writing letters and numbers.

  • • • • • • LWT Capital Letter Formation Chart

            • LWT Number Formation Chart

MATH:

• Number of the Week:  9

• Symmetry

• One-less, one-more; Comparing quantities: more, fewer, same

• Estimate quantities to 10

• Halves

• 5 and 10 frames

• Number recognition 1-31 (calendar connection)

• Count to 50+

• Count by 2s and 10s

• Order and count numbers in groups of 10 (1-10; 11-20; 21-30)

• Practice counting using one-to-one correspondence of numbers to objects

• Identify and generate patterns

• Ordinal numbers

• Sequence

• Subitize

COUNTING CHALLENGE:  

• Students are asked to practice counting to 100 by the end of the school year.  

• Start out counting from 1-10 and then continue in increments of 10 until you reach 100. 

• Make sure you don't skip a number and pay close attention to those transitions from one group of ten to the next group of ten as you make your way to 100.

• Keep up the great work to meet this special challenge!! So many are doing a terrific job of reaching this goal:)

SCIENCE:

• Butterfly Life Cycle Update:  Our butterflies have hatched!!! Everyone is so excited to see these beautiful butterflies as they gain their strength and prepare to take flight tomorrow when we have BUTTERFLY RELEASE.

RELIGION:

• Jesus Ascension into Heaven

• How can we keep our promise and be like Jesus?

SHARING:

• Sharing this week will be the "Mystery Animal - Who Am I?" assignment.  Thank you for working with your child to complete our last sharing project.

SPECIALS:

• Specials this week will be as noted on the Pre-K Web Page under “Specials Schedule”  

Have a terrific week.

Love,

Ms. Harrigan and Ms. Morrow