Preschool Newsletter
February 22, 2021
Week 23
Hello! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. While I'm not happy that the snow is melting, I did enjoy the warmer weather that we had this weekend.
This week's letter will be letter R and number 17.
Our vocabulary this week: Make-believe, mighty, hen, dog, cat, goose.
Thank you for all your help to make things work. I know that technology can be a pain sometimes, so thank you for all of your patience. I have created separate google slide pages for the read aloud books, the number and letter videos, and the brain break dances and yogas. Hopefully, if the main classroom page of slides doesn't open or opens too slowly, you can use the individual pages easier.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Spring Pictures!!! February 24th!!!
Spring Picture day is coming up quickly this month. Spring Pictures will be on the 24th and the remote students that would like spring portraits done will be able to come in the afternoon.
Our time slot is 12:20 - 12:35 for BOTH classes. Please let me know who would like to have your child get a Spring Portrait done. This is voluntary, the pictures done in the fall will be the pictures used in the yearbook. The photographer would like to get a rough count on who would be coming to get Spring Portraits done.
Sadly, remote classes will NOT have class pictures this year.
Small Groups
Small Groups this week will be:
Tuesday: Play doh take away. Have at least 10 play doh pieces, doesn't have to be balls, and their dice. We will start with 10 and then roll to find out how many we will take away from the 10.
Wednesday: Make your own Letter Bingo!!! Letters A - R, can be upper or lower case.
Thursday: February Echo Drawing in the All Year in Preschool Books. Crayons or colored pencils only please!
Choice Boards
Dates To Remember
February 24 - Spring Portrait Picture Day - Must let me know who wants to come in!
March 5 - Early Release
March 12 - 1/2 Day School - NO PRESCHOOL!
March 15 - 19 - Spring Break - NO SCHOOL
April 16 - Early Release
May 7 - Early Release
May 21 - 1/2 Day School - NO PRESCHOOL
Daily Schedule
9:00/12:30 - Choice Board Activity 1
9:20/12:50 - Choice Board Activity 2
9:50/1:10 - Snack
10:00/1:20 - Outdoor Play
10:15/1:40 - Choice Board Activity 3
10:30/2:00 - Brain Break
10:50/2:10 - Pick a story from the Google Classroom
11:00/2:30 - End Meeting
11:15/2:45 - Class is Over
*Underlined/Bolded times are the times when they are in the zoom with me. The other times are a suggestion of a typical day, depending on how things are at home these times may be different for different people. Small Groups Times are during the independent time on Tuesdays - Thursdays.
Early Release Schedule
8:30/12:00 - Morning Meeting
9:00/12:30 - Choice Board
9:15/12:40 - Snack
9:30/12:50 - Outdoor Play
9:40/1:10 - Choice Board
9:50/1:20 - Brain Break or Story
10:15/1:45 - End Meeting
10:30/2:00 - Class Is Over
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.
- They need to be in the frame of the zoom, but they don't need to be sitting for the entire time. 3 and 4 year olds need to move sometimes, and that is fine as long as I can see them.
- Bathroom breaks are as needed, just leave the iPad signed in to the zoom meeting.
- Fidgets are ok; items like play doh, putty, small amounts of slime, small pieces of Legos, etc.
- Monday and Friday are assessment days if needed, I will email you ahead of time to schedule a time to meet individually. Please remember that it is an assessment of what your child knows, so please do not help them with answers. If needed I will give them a hint or clue if possible.
Third 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.
Third 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.