St. Louis Preschool Newsletter
May 2016
Parents Corner
This is it! For some of you this will be your last Preschool Newsletter. Mrs. Amberger, Mrs. Wanstrath, and I will always be thankful that you allowed us to be a part of your child’s education. We have seen such amazing growth and development since August, and we truly enjoyed the journey. They have worked hard and are so proud!
For those of you returning to preschool next year, we will have our beginning of school Open House Sunday, August 7th. Don’t worry I will send a reminder. Please note that it is not on the same night as the big school Open House. If at all possible, make it a visit with just your preschooler. Nothing is more important then family, but letting this visit be just about the student is a wonderful way to start the year. The Tues/Thurs group will come from 3:00 until 3:30 and the M/W/F classes will be from 3:30 until 4:00.
Important Dates
5/4 Visit the Batesville Public Library. (See more info. below)
5/9 Junior High Musical in pm.
5/12 Visit Mrs. Jones Jr. High science room
5/16 Last visit with 4th grade buddies.
5/19 Mrs. Lents 7th grade readers
5/20 Park Day for am and pm with kindergarten. (See more info. below.)
5/24 Last Day for Tues/Thursday class
5/25 Last Day for M/W/F am and pm End of Year Celebration Both classes will come in the morning time with no afternoon preschool. (More info. to follow)
God In Our Lives
During the month of May we switch our Morning Prayer from “The Lord’s Prayer” to the “Hail Mary.” The line leader will get to hold the statue of Mary while we pray. We will field trip over to school to see the statue of Mary and all the beautiful flowers after May crowning. We will talk about Mary's role and remember how she loves us all.
Each class will continue to work on various Bible crafts that will continue to stress God’s value in our lives.
Worry Angels
PreK Batesville Public Library Field Trip May 4th
The PreK children will be visiting the Batesville Public Library with Mrs. Dickey. She will be giving us a tour of the library, sharing a story and letting us play in the children’s section of the library. We will go two times, one for the morning class and one for the afternoon class. It will be a walking field trip. Any parent is welcome to come. Please dress your child in shoes and clothes that will allow them to walk! The date is 5/4 and we will meet Mrs. Dickey at 8:30 and 12:30!
PreK Kindergarten Liberty Park Day! (Both am and pm with no afternoon preschool) May 20
This is a really fun day for the kindergarteners and preschoolers to run and play at our beautiful local park. On May 20th, both am and pm will have drop off at 7:45 with no afternoon preschool. We will be walking from St. Louis Preschool around 8:30ish and we will be walking back from the park around 10:20ish with pick up being at 10:45. We will have unstructured play time for the children to explore the play ground and about half way through we will have a snack and a drink. Please dress your child in play shoes and in our "Cardinals in training" t shirt. If it is going to be hot, slather the sun screen! If it is chilly please send a jacket! (We have seen all kinds of weather.) If it rains we will all play together here at preschool and have a blast too! We really need to have lots of volunteers for this field trip! I will send out a sign up form.
Alphabet News
Willie w. Weasle
Xavier x. Fox
Yancy y. Yak
Yancy Y Yak is always on the phone! This gives us an opportunity to review phone numbers and the number to call if there is an emergency. The excitement is building as we get closer to the end of the alphabet. We will watch a video of a child yodeling and of course we have to try it!
Zeke z. Zebra
We will end the alphabet with Zeke Z zebra. We will zig zag around the room and work on patterns with zebra stripes. It is exciting for the kids to finish the alphabet! We will be practicing singing our zoophonics songs...at the slow pace and the super fast pace.
Putting It All Together
As we are wrapping up the last weeks of school, my goal is to challenge the children. We will play hard, pray hard, and work hard! We hope to get outside as much as possible and move all of our muscles. We hope to instill the feeling that Jesus is our best friend...always close to our hearts. We hope to review all the letters, numbers, shapes etc that we have learned over the year!
Summer Fun!
Learning is everywhere! With children this age they love, love, love learning. So this summer get out the play dough, sing some songs, read lots of books, jump around and ENJOY!