The Pre-K Post
December 9th, 2022
Tis the season to be jolly!!!
Information and Reminders
Important Dates
November
12/9 Pj day
12/12 Hot cocoa day and field trip
12/13 Wear green for grinch day and cookie decorating
12/14 Pancake breakfast and presents from your teacher
12/15 Pj day again! Wear mickey ears if you have any
12/16 Jingle jog, PK holiday party at 10, 1/2 day
Reminder- Friendly reminder that Pre-K students are not allowed to be a walker unless you live within a mile of the school for safety reasons. Also, Pre-K students may not be released from the bus or walker line unless a guardian/approved adult is present. Thank you for helping keep all of our children safe!
Curriculum Highlights
The kiddos are enjoying learning all about different holidays around the world! We have transformed our classrooms into a winter wonderland! The kiddos will get a special visit from Buddy the Elf, The learning Zoo, The Children's Museum, and many more fun surprises this month!
Aside form circle time, we also have fun at centers each day. Here is some information on what our centers are!
Centers are hand-on learning activities in our classroom!
· During centers, students rotate to different areas in the room and participate in hands-on learning activities.
· The concepts taught during our Circle Time (teaching time on the carpet) are reinforced through our center activities.
· Activities change periodically, within units of study, upon mastery, or thematically.
· In addition to academics, Center time is an important component to social-emotional learning in prek. Students learn about compromise, taking turns, sharing, and using words to express needs and wants.
Centers in our classroom include:
- Library and Listening Center: This is our classroom library with age-appropriate books and poems. We often read the material together before it is placed in the center. There are also ipads for interactive read alouds which will be introduced later in the year.
- Science and Sensory Center: This table is used for hands-on exploration and discovery of new items, concepts, and sensory learning.
- Pretend and Learn Center: This center is where students learn through dramatic play and pretend play. Items students will experience this year include puppets, school, winter wonderland, restaurant, kitchen, and more!
- Math Center: Math skills are a great way to play! Students learn about counting, writing numbers, patterning, number recognition, and many more concepts through math activities, games, and play.
- Construction Center: Students play with various types of blocks, magnatiles, and other manipulatives that encourage spatial and motor awareness.
- ABC Center: Students work on letter and sound recognition, explore the alphabet by playing with letters, matching capital/ lower case, and letter games at this center.
- Creativity/Puzzle Center: Students use special and reasoning skills at this center to put together puzzles. Puzzles and activities of varying skill levels are placed in the center so all students have an opportunity to be challenged. Students may also play with Play Doh and other manipulatives to create something! In this center, students also create crafts, art, play with playdoh, paint, work on other activities.
- Writing Center: This center is where students will practice spelling and writing, work on writing strokes and progressing to printing upper and lower case letters, name writing, and “story” writing.
Weekly Information
We have noticed many students wearing velcro shoes, thank you!! Shoe laces can get very dirty and since these kiddos are so young, they haven't quite figured out how to tie their shoes or keep the laces out of their mouths..... By sending your child in no tie shoes, it makes learning and playing much cleaner and easier for them!
Our grade level is always in need of Clorox wipes and snack donations. Goldfish, animal crackers, pretzels are class favorites!
Remember to keep these items in your child's backpack at all times
A Change of clean clothes (including underwear)
A full water bottle
A daily snack if your kiddo wants to bring something in addition to the small class snack
The Pre-K Team
Mrs. Deckert, Ms. Capote, Ms. Banuelos, Ms. Ruiz, Ms. Velez