Week of May 2
I can not believe we are in the month of May already.  Before we know it, your child will be done with Pre-Kindergarten and on their way to kindergarten.  

This week we will review our letter recognition and formation and continue working on letter sounds with various activities.  

In our Happily Ever After Reading series, we will start the story, Peter and the Wolf.  This week and next the children will work with the color white, the triangle shape, and the terms more than and fewer than.

In Math, we will continue with our counting and concentrate on the numbers 1-10 comparing two groups.   This week we will continue with using the terms more than, less or fewer than when comparing our two groups of smaller objects.

In Religion, we will learn more about the Mass and how we can go together as a family and participate in the Mass.  

In science we will continue to watch our Zinnia seeds that we planted.  As your child probably told you, are caterpillars arrived and have been eating and growing.  When the children left them on Friday, a couple of them were already getting into the Chrysalis stage.  How exciting!!  Now, we just have to be patient and wait and to help us with the waiting, we will read The Very Impatient Caterpillar story written by Ross Barach.  The children usually enjoy this story.  

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:
SAVE THE DATE: June 13th is our End of the Year Stepping Up Ceremony, starting at 9:30 am. Please see note sent home for more details. 
                             
                              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.