Thank you to those of you who were able to come and see Santa at the open house. It was a lot of fun.  I missed those who were not able to make it and I saved their gifts for them when they come back Jan  3rd and 4th.

Merry Christmas and have a happy new year🎄

Just reminding you that there is NO School this week.  Have a wonderful thanksgiving🍗

As I go thru each week and type in my thoughts in what the kids have learned I feel like I'm starting to repeat myself too much so I'm thinking I won't post as much. A lot of teaching is repetitious learning.  We have a new sight word besides "look" and that is "the". We have
learned 3 more shapes; hexagon, octagon and parellagram. We are still learning our alphabet songs that go with each letter, identifying letters and their sounds, we are learning about rhyming words and just finished learning what opposites are.  I keep them on their toes in the classroom and in general they are making sweet friendships.  In the next several weeks the kids will be making pumpkin pies and the fun part is giving them the whip cream spray cans!

Advice:  make sure your child knows how to write his/her name
Write down the alphabet on pieces of paper and mix the papers up. Ask your child to tell you the letter, it's sound and a word that starts with that letter.

🎃such a wonderful week of preschool!  The children are settling in with the routine and structure. They repeat the pledge of allegiance each day they come. They take turns praying and are so sweet and quiet. They sing their letters they have learned since the first day of school (phonic song),  and each week we have learned a new letter the children have also learned a song that goes with it.

This weeks letter "E" was fun as we read books like, "the ear book", " the elephants birthday party" and the song, "one elephant went out to play - out on a spiders web one day.  Each child took home an elephant for their fingers to fit through along with a spider to remind them of the song.

Each class was introduced to "opposites". The children helped with a few of the opposite words like back/front, tall/short, long hair/short hair, etc.  we even took a balloon outside demonstrating light/heavy ( 5 lb weights).  Please work on spelling your names. I still have children who really struggle with that.

The 4-5 year olds are working hard on their sight words. Please be sure to help them at home and remember to keep their reading books you will be getting in your envelopes this month.  It will help them review all summer long so they will be prepared for kindergarten .

For our Halloween party I have Halloween buckets for each child to take home.  If you would bring 13 wrapped treats or surprises on our scheduled Halloween party day we will fill those buckets pretty well.  We will be playing games so please dress your child up in his/her costumes that will be safe to run around in and use the restroom at preschool.

Look forward to another great week. See you all then🎃

This past week was so much fun.  On Monday and Tuesday the children painted their dinosaurs, completed their "d" worksheets and Wednesday and Thursday we made our "D" clouds for each child to take home and hang up on a wall.  Also, some of the kids chose to make Halloween cats with stickers.  They were very proud of their fine work.

The 4-5 year olds practiced counting to 100.  They love trying to do this a lot!  We will have a new sight word and book to hand out next week.  Be sure you are helping your child memorize at home their sight words.  I am so proud of the children who have them memorized. It will be easier for them to move ahead each time They get a new word.  We have learned a few shapes (circle, square, triangle,oval, rectangle). I will be adding a new shape this coming week. Make sure your child is practicing writing their name.  If you need a worksheet with their name printed in dots on it I will be happy to copy one for you.

The 3-4 year olds are still learning to share and be kind to each other.  They are learning how to count to 10 and know a few of the shapes(circle,square,triangle) I will add more once they learn these shapes really good. i am so proud of each one of them. Their little personalities are really showing who they are.  They are so fun to be around!

Both classes played games and sang "hey diddle, diddle". I read some "d" books and the children really enjoyed them.

Please remember there will be NO SCHOOL this week (October 3,4, 5 and 6) See you next week and have a great potato harvest!  For those who have not paid please pay on October 10 or 11th.After which you will have a late charge of $10.00.  Thanks.

PS. I noticed I made an error on the dates....the above information is correct now.

This week the children learned about the letter"B".  The 4-5 year olds read the four sight words we learned last week in a book I made up for the children.  They will bring this book home next week to read to you.  You will be getting 15 of these books during the school year.  Find time every night to have them read these books to you and please keep these books  in a safe place so that during the summer you can have them to review and help them remember their sight words.

For all my classes this week we learned many words that start with b.  You can check their work assignments in their backpacks.  The pledge of allegiance is coming along better for each class.  We sang and learned a song called"bluebird".  We played bingo and the match game, finding matching b pictures.  They love this game. It teaches them even more b words.  We played games with the parachute and they laughed very hard.

Sharing is a struggle for a few of the children, but that is part of preschool - learning how to be kind and saying sorry.  I apologize if I come across stern, but when a child hurts another I address it and I don't sugar coat it.  I want each child that comes to feel save and loved when they are at preschool. Loved by their peers and loved by me.

The children made their "B" clouds and I sure hope you are helping your child hang them up and say their letters and sounds every night before going to bed.

No school during Spud harvest is October 3,4,5,6 & 7.  if you can pay me on or before before the 1rst - that will be great!  You all have the Manila payment envelopes. Please return them each month to put your payment in.

The children should be writing their names by now so if you need a practice sheet, please let me know.  The spud harvest break is a good time to work on this.

This coming week we will be working on the letter"C".  They will be doing cat clouds on Wednesday and Thursday.  Make sure you remember that show and tell is every Wednesday and Thursday, depending when your child comes to preschool.