Weeks 13 & 14: November 21st- December 1st I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break!!! Last week we discussed Thanksgiving and what we are thankful for. We created handprint turkeys, played a numeral identification turkey game and played Thanksgiving Bingo. We made bracelets that correlated with a Thanksgiving story. Each bead that the children added to their bracelet represents part of the story... White: The Mayflower Blue: Ocean Green: Land Black: A hard year Brown: Turkey Red: Cranberry Sauce Yellow: Corn Orange: Pumpkin Pie Ask your child to retell the story. This week we focused on early literacy skills. We are working on naming parts of a book, identifying the title, author and illustrator and using the pages to find information / pictures / letters. The children are working on retelling stories. We are using the following story elements to help us recall important details: characters, setting, problem and solution. We are also working on making connections to the stories we are reading. We read Max the Brave. The children shared about a time that they were brave like Max. One of the favorites stories from the week was Max Found Two Sticks. The children used two sticks to create different rhythms and patterns from the story. They keep requesting to read it again and again! Gabrielle from the Kellogg Hubbard library came and read to the morning group this week and left us 22 more books for our classroom library! *Important Dates* December 26TH-January 1st: Winter Break-- No school **Reminders** Pre-Kindergarten Sick Policy: For the protection of all children attending Pre-Kindergarten, please do NOT send your child to school if they are sick, unable to play outdoors or are unable to participate in routine daily activities. In the event that your child becomes ill at school, we will notify you to make prompt pick up arrangements. Fevers: Your child must be fever free for 24 hours without taking any fever reducing medication Vomiting & Diarrhea: All symptoms must NOT be present for 24 hours *** Please bring appropriate outdoor gear to school as we do go outside daily (warm jacket, snow pants, hat, mittens, boots) *** Please bring a pair of inside shoes News from the Library Did you know we have a subscription to World Book Encyclopedia online? Well, we do! And students can access great informational text at three different reading levels (Kids, Student, and Advanced). Also, World Book online has a read aloud feature built in so students can have the articles read aloud to them. It also has beautiful photographs, charts and videos. This website can be used here at school or at home. This resource is paid for by the district and requires a Log-in ID and password. Log-in ID- u32library Password- raiders Use this link to access the site: http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Login?ed=wb
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Weeks 11 & 12: November 7th-17th Thank you families for attending conferences. It was great getting the opportunity to learn more about your child and share more about Pre-K! Last week we read The Hungry Thing and The Hungry Thing Returns by Jan Slepian. This week we read Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young. Many of our games and activities were focused around these books. During circle time we played a game with the Hungry Thing. He would ask the children to feed him a food using a word that rhymed with the food that he wanted. The children needed to listen, find the rhyming food and feed him. We acted out Seven Blind Mice using paper colored mice. The children also practiced ordinal numbers by lining the mice up and following the sequence from the book. We used our sense of sight to make inferences about what a particular picture could be. The children were shown part of a picture. They needed to use the clues from the picture and gather information to infer what the picture was. We also used our math skills to show different combinations of seven. We used our math hands to show seven and objects to make different groupings. During Table Time and Free Choice we explored puffy paint and soft dough. We practiced our scissor skills... we cut pictures from magazines to create collages. We also practiced cutting straight lines to make turkey wind socks. Many children chose to wear them as necklaces. We cut apart a picture of "The Hungry Thing" and tried to paste it back together. We also played "I Spy" using Thanksgiving foods and created Thanksgiving pattern block shapes. The children created paper bag turkeys. Gabrielle from the Kellogg Hubbard library came and read to the afternoon class and left us 20 books for our classroom library! Meg, our school speech and language pathologist, came into our classroom to teach us about composting with worms and how to care for them. *Important Dates* **November 21st: SPOT vision Screening at 9am **November 23rd-25th: No School-- Thanksgiving Break **Reminders** We have snack during each session. Please remember to pack your child a snack. If your child attends full day they will need two snacks. Please do NOT send candy. The weather is getting cooler. We do go outside each day. Please provide your child with appropriate outdoor gear (warm jacket, hat, mittens, boots) |
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