Preschool Newsletter
March 22, 2021
Week 26
Hello! I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break! I know the weather could have been a little nicer here in Kansas, but the time off was a great time to recharge and come back rested. We have 10 weeks left of school left, but I hope to keep the learning fun and exciting!
This week's letter will be letter U and number 20. This week we will be looking at different shape and what we can make from them.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Small Groups!
Small Groups this week will be:
Tuesday: Play Doh fun! What can you make with play doh!
Wednesday: Make your own Letter Bingo - 8 Letters A - U, upper and lower case are great! Or if you want a challenge, write them all!
Thursday: Echo Drawing for March in All Year in Preschool Books. Crayons or colored pencils only, please!
Choice Boards
Dates To Remember
April 16 - Early Release
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!
*I made an error on the previous newsletters. The last day for Preschooler is actually May 27th, with the rest of the schools last day on May 28th.
Daily Schedule
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. 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.
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.
Zoom Norms!
A quiet place is important!
If you need to talk with me, it needs to be done when there are no other students logged in. At the end of the last meeting I will be happy to stay and talk. I will not talk when I have students in the classroom.
Please join the zoom meeting by 8:30 or 12:00! I will start counting absent if they aren't in after 5 minutes, unless I receive an email from you.
Students need to stay muted unless I ask them to unmute. I will check for raised hands periodically during the zoom.