Week 3

 

Week 3 Newletter

What another wonderful week of Pre-K! I am really loving teaching Pre-K and getting to know all of our sweet kiddos. Thank you for being such a supportive group of parents.

Please access photos from the week here!

Look What We Learned This Week!

• Classroom Expectations & Routines: Students are doing a wonderful job learning the PreK way and settling into our daily schedule!
• All About Me Unit: We read stories highlighting how we are all unique, celebrating our similarities and differences, and learning to feel comfortable with who we are while accepting others.
• Daily Survey: Our class had fun answering daily questions like summer vs. winter, chocolate vs. vanilla, and cat vs. dog to learn more about each other's preferences.
• Concepts of Print & Phonemic Awareness: Through our weekly poem, we practiced reading left-to-right directionality, return sweep, and identified letters, words, and sentences. We also worked on listening for rhyming words, blending and segmenting compound words, identifying beginning and ending sounds, and counting words in spoken sentences.
• Name Activities: Students practiced recognizing and spelling their names. We counted the number of letters in everyone's name and built a class graph—5 letters was our most common length!
• Rest Time & Center Exploration: Rest time was a big success this week, with students lying quietly to relax for 30 minutes. Afterward, they dove into center time exploring dramatic play, blocks, drawing, sensory play, writing, library books, fine motor tasks, and STEM building.
• Pencil Grip Practice: We worked hard on mastering our pencil grip in our writing books! Ask your child to demonstrate the "pinch, pick up, flip, and tuck" technique: pinch with thumb and pointer, flip the pencil back to rest on the middle finger, and hide the ring and pinkie fingers in the palm.
• Specials: Students enjoyed music with Mrs. Li, art with Ms. Tara, library book checkout, and gym activities during PE with our teacher assistants.

Looking Ahead to Next Week

• Fall Apples Unit: We begin our new unit next week!
• Apple Donations Needed: Please send 2 to 4 apples with your child on Monday for painting, making applesauce, taste tests, and learning activities.
• Apple Toys Needed: If you have any unused toy or play apples at home, we would love to have them for our dramatic play center.

Thank you so much for your support and donations!

Sincerely, 
Caroline McGee