Fun with food faces!

This week in Preschool our theme is MY FAMILY. We will make family trees, make "alphabet soup," make a class graph of family size, make Mat Man with our wood pieces, and share items found on our family scavenger hunt. We will play with the doll house, the gear set, legos, and beads. We will start our formal religion program and hear the story, "Let the Children Come to Me." - Don't forget Back to School Night, Mon. 8/29 at 6:00 pm, and No School on Labor Day, Mon. Sept. 5.

Week of 8/22 - 8/26/11

THEME: ALL ABOUT ME/MAKING NEW FRIENDS

This week in Preschool we will continue getting to know each other and getting used to our routines. We will make posters about ourselves in Art, which will be displayed in the classroom next week at Back to School Night. We will measure height and weight so that we can see how much we've grown by the end of the school year. We will make a fun "food face" snack with healthy foods. We will work on learning to recognize our names in print. The wood pieces used to form letters in our handwriting program will be introduced. In Religion we will continue to practice Catholic prayers and making the sign of the cross. We will be introduced to our Religion friends who we will learn about in stories throughout the year.

Tuesday, August 23 - Spirit Dress/Spirit Night Pool Party at LaFortune Park
Monday, August 29 - Back to School Night, 6:00 pm , beginning in the gym. Parents only, please!

Our P.E. days will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Please send your child in tennis shoes every Tues. and Wed.

Please keep our teacher's aide, Mrs. Glover, in your prayers. Her father-in-law, Mike Glover, passed away Friday, August 19.

Well, it's that time of year again! I'm so excited for school to start, although my enthusiasm might not be shining through in this picture :). I promise to upload much better pics throughout the year of all of the precious preschoolers!

Our theme for Preschool this week is "MY NEW SCHOOL." We will be getting to know each other, our classroom, some of the faculty, and parts of the campus. We will play some fun games, learn a few songs, learn about the rules of our room and the playground, and begin to learn that we are a Catholic school and are fortunate to be able to learn about God every day.

We will begin to learn about our schedule and routines which, as you probably well know, kids this age just love. We will do some painting to create a class bulletin board and we will have lots of great manipulatives out to play with and explore.

Don't forget this coming Saturday, August 20 is the SPX Feast Day Celebration after 5:00 Mass. And Back to School Night will soon be here on Monday, August 29 at 6:00, beginning in the church.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful children with me. It's going to be an awesome year in Preschool!

LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!

Can you believe it? This has been a wonderful year and I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching and getting to know your children. They are an awesome group and we have had so much fun together. We have also learned a lot from each other.

This week is called the Best of Preschool. We will be doing some of our favorite things such as playing with the knights and big castle, playing with the beauty shop and babies, playing with bears and the bear cave. We will review all of our letters and talk about how letters are put together to make words. We will finish the last chapter page from our Religion book. We will finish our keepsake books and growth inventories.

Wednesday, May 25 - Super Kids Day! Spirit Dress. You do NOT need to send money for snacks for your child that day. We will not be purchasing items from the concession stand but we will have our own special snack.
Thursday, May 26 - Last Day of School!

Our theme in Preschool this week is Birthdays. We will be making birthday collages and working on our end-of-the-year keepsake books in Art. We will have pretend birthday parties in Dramatic Play, make playdough birthday cakes, and play with confetti in the sensory table. We will also be playing with the gear set, unifix cubes, and Little People this week. We will learn about our last letter, the letter Z! In Religion we will learn that David often sang his prayers and we can, too.

Don't forget that Tuesday, May 17 is our party day, from 9:00 - 12:00. All preschoolers and parents are welcome to come and enjoy the outside activities. Your child may wear spirit dress that day.

I will be gone on Friday, May 20, and Mrs. Glover will be covering the class.

This week in Preschool we will be learning about Insects and Spiders. We will make Busy Bees in Art, learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and the coloring of butterflies and moths, learn about the differences between insects and spiders, learn about the letter Y, and play a letter recognition bug swatting game. In Religion we will continue to learn about prayer and make a class prayer box.

Friday, May 13 - Shakespeare in the Park - 10:55 am - Cafeteria is closed so please bring or send a lunch for your child.
Tuesday, May 17 - Preschool Party - 9:00 - 12:00
1/2 Price Book Fair- May 9-13 in Middle School Library

Thank you all for such a wonderful teacher appreciation week! We are so grateful for the flowers, cards, chocolate, school supplies, cookies, and gift cards. We are so blessed to be a part of such a supportive community.

Yay! Teacher for a Day!

We loved having our 8th Grade Teachers, Ana and Emi! (Hope we didn't wear them out too much.)

This week in Preschool, May 2 -6, our theme is Ocean Life. We will make seahorses and starfish in Art, examine real sea shells, have a day at the beach in Dramatic Play, make gifts for our mothers, learn about the letter X, and create ocean habitats in Blocks. In Religion we will learn that Mary loves us as a mother loves her children. We will also learn about rosaries. Your child may bring a rosary from home to share with the class. Please send rosaries on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.

Friday, May 6 - We will attend an all school assembly to hear a classical guitarist, Ron Radford.

Friday, May 13 - Shakespeare in the Park - Cafeteria closed

Happy Mother's Day on Sunday! Thanks for sharing your great kids with me.