🎃 Pre-K Weekly Newsletter: Week 8 🦇
Dear Pre-K Families,
What a fun and exciting week we had in Pre-K! Our room was filled with pumpkins, bats, and spiders as we explored everything autumn. Here is a look at what we learned and created this week:Have a look at many photos from our week in the photos folder.
🌅 Morning Meeting & Skills
- Interactive Morning Greeting: We started our mornings with a special bat poem! Students practiced number recognition and active listening by standing up when their bat’s number matched the poem or ten-frame count.
- Letter & Sound Focus (U & C): We introduced the letters U and C this week! Students practiced letter formation, identified their sounds, and engaged in hands-on building activities using Play-Doh, blocks, and paint.
- Morning Literacy Practice: We worked on matching uppercase and lowercase letters, blending and segmenting sounds, and pairing pictures with their initial sounds.
- Heggerty Phonemic Awareness: We launched our new "Heggerty Hero" routine! Each day, one student gets to model our daily hand motions while holding our class puppy stuffed animal and then selects the next hero for the following day.
📖 Shared Reading & Literacy
- Shared Reading Poem: We read "What I See in Fall", deconstructed the poem line-by-line, and worked together to put it back together.
- Anchor Chart: Together as a class, we created a "What We Know About Fall" chart to record all our observations and ideas about the changing season.
- Non-Fiction & Storytime: We read many great books about pumpkins, bats, and spiders and watched non-fiction videos to build our vocabulary and learn real-world facts about bats and spiders!
🎨 Discovery & Center Time
- Sensory Table: Our new fall sensory bin was a huge hit! It was filled with "spaghetti hay," autumn leaves, acorns, and fun tactile materials.
- Dramatic Play — The Pumpkin Store: Thank you so much for all of your pumpkin donations! The pumpkin store was a favorite all week.
- Fine Motor & Hands-On Play: Students crafted spider webs and built pumpkin patches using Play-Doh.
- Fall Art Projects:
- Spooky black construction paper spiders complete with googly eyes!
- Hand-painted paper pumpkins cut into unique jack-o'-lantern faces.
🧸 Friday Fun!
We wrapped up our week with a super fun Stuffy Day! The students loved bringing their stuffed animals to school and enjoying a fun cozy autumn cartoon together to end the week.🌟 Looking Ahead
We look forward to seeing all of our learners back next week for another fantastic week filled with pumpkins, leaves, bats, and spiders!Have a wonderful weekend!
Warmly,
The Pre-K Team
