The Week of September 26

This week the children will be introduced to the letter Bb  The children will work on identification, formation, and the sound of the letter Bb.    We will listen to the ABC Mouse song and watch Captain Sea Salt to learn many new words that begin with the /b/ sound.  The chidlren will continue in our Literacy program, Happily Ever After and work on various skills in their activity pages.  We will continue to work  on the color red, the terms a dot, a line, under, across, same, and different.  

In Math the children will continue sorting by colors.  They will work with connecting cubes and counting bears and sort them by color, as well as other small objects.  The students will also sort and find the objects that are different.  They will be introduced to recognizing, counting, and writing the numbers 1 and 2 this week. 

In Religion this week we will work on lesson 3 on Helping Others.   We will discuss different ways we can help around the house and in our classroom. 

The chidlren will be painting "leaves" on tree templates for our Color of Fall bulletin board. 

Charlotte will be our Star of the Week.  We can not wait to learn more about Charlotte this week.  

IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS

**If you have not already, please  send in $6.50 for the Scholastic My Big World Magazine/interactice resource  that we read/use in class.  An envelope for the returned money will be sent home on Monday for you to place your money in.    Thank you for all your support!  

**Individual and class pictures for Pre-K will be on Monday, September 26th.  Please bring in payment with your photo selection on Monday.   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, 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.   

-We will also be using the Scholastic Magazine, My Big World which has themed based lessons on seasons, holidays, fire safety, polar animals, dental health, friendship,  caterpillars/butterflies, rainbows, ladybugs, plants, and many more topics.