Preschool Newsletter
January 11, 2021
Week 17
Hello! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
Last week was fun with all the Snowman fun. This week, we will pick Frog Street back up and our theme this week is Choices and Safety. This week's letter will be letter M and number 12.
Our vocabulary this week: thoughtful (choices), cautious, and safety rules.
Thank you for all your help to make things work. I know that technology can be a pain sometimes, so thank you for all of your patience. I have created separate google slide pages for the read aloud books, the number and letter videos, and the brain break dances and yogas. Hopefully, if the main classroom page of slides doesn't open or opens too slowly, you can use the individual pages easier.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Small Groups
Small Groups this week will be:
Tuesday: Letter/Number/Shape Game - No Materials Needed.
Wednesday: Number Bingo - They will need 8 small items or paper to cover the letter. Can use a marker if no items are available. I have put a copy of a bingo board on the google classroom page.
Thursday: Play-doh day! We will be making shapes with our play doh today.
Choice Boards
Dates to Remember
January 18 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day --> NO SCHOOL
January 29 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 8:00 - 3:30 --> NO SCHOOL!
February 5 - Early Release
February 15 - NO School - Presidents' Day
February 19 - Early Release
March 5 - Early Release
March 12 - 1/2 Day School - NO PRESCHOOL!
March 15 - 19 - Spring Break - NO SCHOOL
April 16 - Early Release
May 7 - Early Release
May 21 - 1/2 Day School - NO PRESCHOOL
Third Quarter Learning Goals - 4 year old
- With prompts, identifies characters, setting, and major events of a story.
- Engages in small and large group activities.
- Recognizes and names some upper and lower case letters, in addition to those in their first name. Q3 = 10 letters upper and lower combined.
- Produces some letter sounds.
- Prints some upper and lower case letters.
- Recognize and produce rhyming words.
- Break words into parts by clapping or snapping.
- Break words into syllables by clapping or snapping.
- Understands and uses most question words. For example "who, what, where, when, why, and how."
- Counts to 20.
- Uses one to one correspondence when counting objects using number names.
- Understands addition is adding to and that subtraction is taking away objects.
- Sorts and categorizes objects and makes comparisons based on quantity. For example More/Less.
- Name shapes. Square, circle, triangle, rectangle.
- Continue a number pattern by counting up.
- Counting forward from a given number under 10.
- Describes positions of objects in the world around them. For example, above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.
- Orders objects into a line shortest to longest.
Third Quarter Learning Goals - 3 year olds
- Uses drawing, scribbling, letter like forms
- Begins to make letter like forms and print some letters
- Understands and uses some questions words; who, what, where, when, why, how
- Blends compound words and syllables in spoken words (base+ball=baseball / d+ad=dad)
- Recognizes letters in their name
- Places objects in one to one correspondence during play (gives each doll a plate in the housekeeping area)
- Uses number words to indicate the quantity in small sets (2, 3, 4...)
- Name shapes regardless of size (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles)
- Compares the number of objects in one group as more or less than another, up to 5 objects
- Counts rote to 10
- Follows basic health practices (puts dirty tissues in trash, washes hands, covers mouth when sneezing)
- Uses increased coordination and balance (runs with a stride, jumps, kicks a ball, uses alternating feet when climbing stairs)
- Uses classroom and household tools independently and with eye-hand coordination to carry out more complex activities ( uses fork and spoon to eat, manages large buttons, uses scissors to cut out simple shapes)
- Interacts with familiar adults with varying degrees of comfort
- Recognizes and identifies own emotions and starts to recognize and identify the emotions of others, with adult support.
Zoom Expectations
- A quiet place is important! Background noise can make it hard for others to hear or to be heard on a zoom meeting. I understand that sometimes this isn't possible with older siblings are doing their own virtual school at the same time, but as quiet as possible.
- They need to be in the frame of the zoom, but they don't need to be sitting for the entire time. 3 and 4 year olds need to move sometimes, and that is fine as long as I can see them.
- Bathroom breaks are as needed, just leave the iPad signed in to the zoom meeting.
- Fidgets are ok; items like play doh, putty, small amounts of slime, small pieces of Legos, etc.
- Please join the zoom meeting by 8:30 or 12:00, I will start counting absent if they aren't in after 10 minutes. If your child is sick or you're having internet trouble, please email me when you can. I will check periodically when doing the morning meeting. Your child will not be counted absent if there are technical difficulties or it will be an excused absence for an illness or appointment.
- Monday and Friday are assessment days if needed, I will email you ahead of time to schedule a time to meet individually. Please remember that it is an assessment of what your child knows, so please do not help them with answers. If needed I will give them a hint or clue if possible.