PLEASE NOTE:  IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER
-Early dismissal Days for the Month of May
-Wednesday May 12 11:15 dismissal.
-School will be closed for the children on Thursday, May 27, Friday May 28, and Monday, May 31.  May 27 is a Teacher Professional Day and May 28 and May 31 are for Memorial Day observance.  

The Week of April 19
This week we will continue with our letter of the week, learning about the letter Yy.  We will work on recognition, letter formation, and letter sound.  We continue to remind the children that all leters and numbers begin from the top of the line to the bottom and we always read and write from left to right. The children will view videos (Captain Sea Salt and ABC Mouse) to help them get a better understanding of words that begin with the letter Yy.  The children will also review the beginning sounds of letter s-x.  We will continue with our Happily Ever After program and will work on various skills with  our story The Tug of War.  The children will work with the color orange, will learn to follow arrows, gain an understanding of the terms thin, and wide. 

In math we will work with numbers and on recognizing numerals again.  The children will practice counting objects in various configurations, like in circles, linear, and scattered configurations.  The children will also learn that the last number in our counting is the total number of objects.  We wil also looke at 2 sets of objects and see that sometimes one might have more or less than the other. 

In Religion this week we are continuing to learn more about Jesus through the Bible.  We will read some stories from the Bible.  Last week we read the story of Jesus, at 12 years old,  going into the Temple to teach others about God.  On Monday of this week the children will hear the story of the Disciples fishing and not having any luck and then Jesus comes and tells them to put their net back in the water.  After this, the disciples find lots of fish.  From these stories, the children will understand that Jesus is powerful and He is there to help us in our lives. The children then drew a picture of one of these Bible stories. 

This week, since we celebrate Earth Day, the children will read a story, Katie Woo, Katie Saves the Earth  by Fran Manushkin and we will talk about how we can do things to preserve our Earth.  We will also discuss how God wants us to take care of His gifts. The children will each name something they can do to help preserve our Earth and will color an Earth Day sheet.   We will hang these in our classroom. 

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.