Preschool Newsletter
April 12, 2021
Week 28
This week's letter will be letter X and review numbers 5 and 6. This week we will be looking at being creative. How can we create at home? Can we make recycled art? Vocabulary this week is inspiration and architect. Let's make the kiddos the architect of their own imaginations!
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
2021 Month of the Military Child Spirit Week! April 19 - 23
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: Roll and Color Dice Game - they will roll the dice to name the letter. They will need their dice and their ABC dice card. There is a picture of one below.
Wednesday: What's that Sound? - No Materials Needed
Thursday: Roll and Color Dice Game - they will roll the dice to name the number. They will need their dice and their Number dice card. There is a picture of two below. One has numbers up to 1 - 10 and the other has numbers 10 - 20.
Choice Boards
Dates To Remember
April 16 - Early Release
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.