Building Strong Minds and Faith-Filled Hearts
PreK - Mrs. Carter
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WELCOME TO Mrs. Carter's PRE-K 2024-2025
Our class meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8:30 until 2:15.
Just a reminder that snack should be in a separate bag placed in your child's lunch box, along with their lunch food, including a drink for both.
If your child has food allergies, please bring in a bag with a few special safe treats for them to eat if we should have a birthday celebration. Thank you so much for your help with this.The Week of April 28th
*PLEASE NOTE: From now on, whenever tracing or writing in their homework packets children should use pencils. Crayons should now only be used for coloring. Thank you.
The children will be introduced to the letter Zz this week. We will watch Singing Walrus, ABC Mouse, and Captain Sea Salt for letter recognition, formation, and letter sounds.In Literacy the students will continue with The Tug of War activity pages and then be introduced to the story, Peter and the Wolf .
In Math we will continue working on measurement. This week the children will continue working on heavy and light objects and compare them using the terms heavier, heaviest, and lighter, and lightest. We will then start learning about non standard measurement.
This week in Religion we will learn more about the bible and the Holy Family and Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
In Science we will learn about the plant cycle. Our caterpillars should arrive this week and we will start learning about the life cycle of the butterfly as well.
Important Information:Students should bring their lunch box and folder to each class. Students should bring snack and lunch as well as drinks for both. Please label the snack so that we know what they should have at that time. Thank you for your help with this.
**PLEASE NOTE: We will not have a Star of the Week this week, but Olivia will be our Star the following week, starting on May 5th.
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, recognizing and writing numerals, and introduced to simple addition and subtraction.
-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.