Preschool Newsletter
February 8, 2021
Week 21
Hello! I hope everyone had a restful and wonderful weekend. I hope everyone had a safe and fun Super Bowl Sunday! If you would like to drop off Valentine's for the class, you can drop them off at the office on Monday. Tuesday at the latest, as I will get them out in the mail by Tuesday afternoon. You don't have to put individual names for each student, but your child does need to put their name on the Valentine, so they know who it is from.
This week will begin our unit on Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, but we will have some fun with Valentine's Day books and Chinese New Year. This week's letter will be letter Q and number 16.
Our vocabulary this week: tales, helpful
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
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: No Small Groups Today!
Wednesday: Play Doh Fun Day! Show me what you can make!
Thursday: Simon Says! No materials needed.
Friday Valentine Whole Group Fun! 10:00am for the morning class and 1:30pm for the afternoon class. Valentine's Day Bingo and a Simon Says game.
Choice Boards
Dates To Remember!
February 12 - Valentine's Day Fun
February 15 - NO School - Presidents' Day
February 17 - Spring Picture Day!
February 19 - Early Release
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
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.