PLEASE NOTE:  IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
 Please continue to bring back your child's manilla folder, along with their regular folder each day and we will continue to send it home as well. 
Please Note: School will be closed on Monday, January 18 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 

The Week of January 19
This week we will continue in our Happily Ever After Reading Series with our "story" Jingles, Poems, and Rhymes.  The children will listen to sounds and using their new vocabulary words, the children will say whether a sound was heard before or after another.  We will review recognition of letters L, M, and N and we will be introduced to the letter Oo and work on the recognition, formation, and writing of the letter Oo, as well as review the writing of lower case letters from the past. 

In Math we will continue working on recognizing numerals and counting groups of objects.  The children will be introduced to the numeral 0 and 9 and recognize 9 as 8 plus one more. 

In Religion we will learn about the Bible and the children will have an opportunity to listen to stories from the Bible, starting with the story of creation, since we have been talking about God's many gifts to us.  

We will continue reading winter themed stories and will read The Missing Mitten Mystery by Steven Kellogg.  Before finishing the story,  the children will predict where they think the missing mitten is hiding. and then, the  children will color their own mittens to decorate our bulletin board in the hallway. We will also be  learning about animals of the Arctic this week. We will read from our My Big World Scholastic magazine.  The children will then have a chance to make a walrus craft.  

There will not be a new Star this week, as we have a shorter week.  

Children will also have a chance to play in our playground each day, weather permitting. Please have the children dress warmly for the winter and make sure they have their name in their sweatshirts, sweaters, and jackets.  Thank you.

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, number, apples, pumpkins, fires safety, polar animals, and many more topics.