Preschool Newsletter
April 19, 2021
Week 29
This week's letter will be letter Y and review numbers 7 and 8. This week we will be looking at movement, rhymes, and Earth Day. How can we move at home? Can we move to a new place? How can we make things move?
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
2021 month of the military child spirit week!
April 19 - Red, White, & Blue
April 20 - Camo
April 21 - Sparkle & Shine
April 22 - Hero
April 23 - Purple Up!
Small Groups
Small Groups this week will be:
Tuesday: How do things move? - Use play doh balls or cars to find different ways to make them move. Can you move them by blowing on them? Do you need to push or pull them? - Will need play doh, cars, or different small objects that they can try to move in different ways.
Wednesday: What's that Sound? - No Materials Needed
Thursday: Play doh fun day! Make your answer to "How you can help the Earth?"
Choice Boards
Dates To Remember
April 19 - 23 Military Child Spirit Week - Theme days are above
April 22 - Earth Day
May 7 - Early Release
May 21 - 1/2 Day School - NO PRESCHOOL
May 27 - LAST DAY OF PRESCHOOL!!!
May 28 - Last Day of School for Everyone!
fourth quarter learning goals - 4 year olds
- 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. Q4 = 15 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 30.
- 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.
fourth 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.