Week of 9/19 - 9/23/11

This week in Preschool we will finish our COLORS and complete our color books. We will celebrate at the end of the week by making crayon hats, marching and singing, and eating rainbow cupcakes! We will sort fruit loops on pipe cleaners, participate in a color diffusion experiment, and review some basics of our handwriting program to prepare for learning our first letter next week. In Religion we will learn that Jesus is our good shepherd.

Tues. 9/20 - Picture Day - Wear uniform - M-W-F kids may meet us in the Parish Hall at 8:45 am.
Thurs. 9/22 - Spirit Dress (SPX t-shirt and jeans or shorts)
Book Fair all week in the Middle School Library.

Thank you for sending kleenex for our room. SPX will be collecting change for the St. Francis of Assisi Tuition Fund 9/14 - 9/23. If your child contributes, they may wear free dress on Oct. 4. Thank you for attending our Parent Teacher Conferences. I enjoyed meeting with you about your wonderful children!

Week of 9/12 - 9/15/11

We will celebrate COLORS for the next two weeks of Preschool, emphasizing a different color each day with some fun culminating activities at the end of next week. We will make a class rainbow and paint in art, mix colors as a science experiment, sort by color, play in a pretend paint store, and in Religion we will learn all about Noah's Ark and God's sign of the rainbow. We will learn about the Olympics as a Greek Week activity and will try some Greek food on Wednesday.

Wed., 9/14 - Pizza Day, send money for your child if you have not already done so.
Thurs., 9/15 - PTC - After School.
Fri., 9/16 - PTC - No School.

School Pictures have been moved to Tues., 9/20.
Spirit Dress - Thurs., 9/22.

Thank you for sending kleenex for our classroom!

SPX will be collecting change for the St. Francis of Assisi Tuition Fund 9/14 - 9/23.

I made a separate post with pictures from last week. Go to older posts and check them out!

Shaving Cream Fun!

Week of 9/6 - 9/9/11

THEME: SHAPES

This week in Preschool we will make a shape book in Art, make shapes from shaving cream and playdough, search for shapes in the Sensory Table, pretend to work at and visit the beauty shop in Dramatic Play, learn some shape songs and play some shape games. In Religion we will hear the story of "My Teacher Welcomes Me," like Jesus welcomed the children in our Bible story last week.

Pizza order forms are due Friday, 9/9.

Wednesday, 9/14 is Pizza Lunch Day and School Picture Day (wear uniform.) T-Th kids may come to get pictures taken. We will let you know the time as soon as we get the information.

Parent Teacher Conferences are Thursday, 9/15 after school and Friday, 9/16 - No School.

Ice cream days are Thursdays and Fridays. Cost is 75 cents. You may also purchase a $15 punch card.

If anyone would like to donate a box of kleenex for our classroom, it would be most appreciated! We inadvertently left this off the supply list.

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!