Preschool Newsletter
May 10, 2021
Week 32
I will be asking to set up times for different assessments, should I need to reassess your kiddo. I will try to stay on the Monday and Friday schedule, but there is only one full Friday left and there are two Fridays that Preschool doesn't have school. Please remember to not help your child with the assessment questions!
This week we will be doing two letters a day to review letter and review numbers 13 and 14. This week's topic will be bugs.
Letters of the Day:
Monday: J & K
Tuesday: L & M
Wednesday: N & O
Thursday: P & Q
Friday: R
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
End of Year Gift Bag Drive By
Small Groups This Week
Small Groups this week will be:
Tuesday: Simon Says - No Materials Needed
Wednesday: Letter Bingo - Either use the card you have at home or make your own with as many letters as you want
Thursday: Number Bingo - Either use the card you have at home or make your own with any numbers you want from 0 - 20
Choice Boards
Dates To Remember
May 21 - 1/2 Day School - NO PRESCHOOL
May 21 - Drive By End of Year Gift Pick Up - @ Eisenhower Elementary front circle (1:00 - 3:00)
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.