(4-5 year old)- We have now learned at least 13 sight words and we only have a couple of more reading books to complete. I have never gotten this far with sight words before and the kids were up to the challenge. Please keep the cards I have made for each of you so that in the summer time you can go over the sight words and really help them remember them well for kindergarten.
We are still working on counting to 100 - I believe the kindergarten test asks them to count as high as they can. They are hoping they can count to 10.
They are ready for their colors, opposites, shapes, rhyming words (we will be working more on this month) and writing their names. Some of the children are now writing both their first and last names as well. Pretty impressive! I love em so much. Overall the phonics and letter recognition is something we just have to work on a lot, but I believe each of these children can and will have a great understanding.
We will now start memorizing and learning our preschool graduation program that will be held at the East Idaho Stake House (East of my house -just come in the back doors and come into the gym, where your child will sit on the stage on a designated chair ready to put his/her cap on. The graduation is scheduled for May 21rst. I'm still waiting for the approval in scheduling that particular building on that day so this date is just tentative.
(3-4 year old)- We are still developing growth in our fingers, but today for the first time the children wrote their names with a pencil - incredible too! They each tried very hard and they all were confident in trying. Yeh! Sometimes I hear sad words like, "I can't" or "I don't want to do this", but today's experience was very positive. We are still learning shapes, phonic songs, letter songs, counting to 20. We do pretty well until we get to 13 and after that we really have to work on that. Our ABC's are coming along great. Today as well as the 4-5 year old class we skipped, walked toe to toe, hopped on one foot, hopped on both feet, and did some story plays like "Jack and Jill" and "speackled frogs" and "Little monkeys jumping on the bed", which they loved all of them and wanted to do them over. Playing these games and learning where our right and left feet go help them not only about coordination and balance, but what I am looking for is sharing, kindness towards each other and developing their social skills to a higher level. They are becoming very positive about trying as I mentioned before and I feel very happy how far they have come in believing in themselves.
