Week of October 25
We will continue to work in our Happily Ever After on the story, The Three Bears.  The children will work with the color blue, a dot, and drawing lines over and under objects.  The children will also be introduced to the letter Ff and work on recognition, formation, and beginning sound of letter/f/.  We will watch  ABC Mouse letter Ff  and Captain Sea Salt Adventures with the letter Ee and learn many new words that begin with the /f/ sound.  

In math we will continue identifying the numerals 1-5 and practice our counting with counters, connecting cubes, and other objects.  The children will also pracitice counting "The Math Way" which has them start with their pinkie on their left hand, learning that we read and write from left to right.  

We will read the Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin and them the children will make their own little craft of Spookley. 

In Religion we will learn about Halloween and talk about safety rules that we should have during Trick or Treating. 

On Friday the children will put together a Halloween craft that our class mom will bring in for us.  Thank you to Julia's mom for being our class mom this year.

Weather permitting, we will spend time on our playground.  Please dress your child in appropriate shoes for running.  

Ryan will be our Star of the Week this week and we look forward to learning more about him.  The children have fun trying to guess Ryan's favorite things. 

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:
**On Friday, November 5, there will be an 11:15 dismissal for the Pre-k children due to a Faculty Meeting.
**On Friday, November 12 the Pre-K children will participate in the 2nd annual Walk-a-thon, which is a fundraiser. The Walk-a-thon flyer/sponsor sheet can be found in Mr. Jenson's Sunday Weekly News email. Thank you for your support!
**Also, Thanksgiving Pie orders are due by midnight on November 12th.  Order online at www.universe.com/srolpies. Please consider ordering a pie or two to support our school.  Thank you. 
                             
                              OUR DAILY MORNING PRAYER
                             
                              Thank you God for this day
                               In my school to work and play.
                               Please be with me all day long
                               In every story, game and song.
                               May all the happy things we do
                             Make you, Our Father, happy too. Amen.

Pre-K this year:
-This year we will be using the Literacy program, Happily Ever After.  The children will work on comprehension skills as they  listen to and follow along in big books, as well as in their own story booklets.   They will complete related activity pages, which teach new vocabualry, reinforce recognition of colors, shapes, and work on fine motor skills.
The children will also be introduced to a new letter of the week, working on letter recognition, formation, and letter sounds.  

-In Math this year the children will be counting, working on one to one correspondence, recognizing patterns, and sorting objects into categories.  They will be introduced to 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, measuring using length, weight, and capacity, and recognizing and writing numerals. 

-In Religion we will be using Sadlier's Discovering God's World, as well as reading and discussing Bible stories from our Children's Bible.   

-We will also be using the Scholastic Magazine, My Big World which has themed based lessons on seasons, holidays, our feelings, our senses, numbers, apples, pumpkins, fires safety, polar animals, caterpillars,and many more topics.    

Welcome to our class.  This week the Pre-K students will spend some time getting to know one another and the routines of the classroom.  We will talk about good classroom manners and the children will brainstorm with me on what would be good behaviors for the classroom.  The children will listen to the story, Pete the Cat, Rocking in my School Shoes and will have a chance to color their own sneaker their favorite color.    We will also read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and explore the letters in our names. 

We will start our first lesson in Religion on God's Gift of people and will learn about God's love for us.  

The children will play with our classroom toys, as well as work in small groups on puzzles.  We will read from our Scholastic interactive magazine about exploring new things as we start a new school year in a new classroom.  

Weather permitting, we will have fun in our playground this week!! Please dress your child in comfortable shoes for running around.