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Hello Pre-K Families,

This week we finished up our Construction theme mixed in some spring themes, including Read Across America (Dr. Seuss' Birthday Mar. 2) and introduction to St. Patrick's Day and some leprechaun fun. We also continued with our phonemic awareness lessons through Heggerty, letter practice through Handwriting without Tears, and interacted with a lot of rhyming through the works of Dr. Seuss. We also did some one-on-one assessment throughout the week to get ready for our spring parent/teacher conferences. I am excited to be able to share your child's progress.

Monday- We started our day with our circle time Monday Share about weekend activities or anything they want to share. The students helped update our calendar for March by fillig the calendar numbers. Each student recieved two to put in its place. Everyone works together and then we go over the new calendar, pointing out birthdays, early releace days, any holidays, and days we do not have school. We count the numbers and the Calandar Kid points to each number. Sometimes we count backwards as well. We worked on Construction Patterns, finishing ABAB, ABBABB, ABCABC, and AABBAABB patterns. We Counted Construction Tools and then found the correct numeral that matched the number they counted. And we did a Count and Color activity where a numeral was provided and only that number of tools was colored. These are all important math skills.

Tuesday- After our full morning routine, we worked on the letter M and N with Handwriting withut Tears wooden pieces. We worked in our Handwriting without Tears Workbooks. We enjoyed Music with a substitute music teacher for Ms. Li. The substitute started by reading a music themed story. Mrs. Nutt actually stayed and taught the rest of our lesson with the substitute assisting her. The kids really enjoyed the singing and dancing to the chicken dance, using the Egg Shakers, and moving and dancing in the wind with scarves.

Wednesday- After morning circle time with Heggerty, alphabet chant, and calendar, we welcomed the day with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue fish. we cut. We first colored, then cut, organized the pieces and then built a Dump truck by gluing the pieces onto a background, Many students also experimented with paper plate designs, making paper plate colored twirlers. They saw a sample of a project we will do this upcoming week and i let their creativity drive the center.

Thursday- We celebrated Kaisey's 5th birthdy with a birthday ribbon and crown, along with singing happy birthday and her choice of a couple GoNoodle, Danny Go, or DJ Raphis dance alongs for the birthday girl. We made rainbow dot painting picture after introducing St. Patrick's day and the soon to be visiting Lucky the Leprechaun. We also made Get Well Soon cards for Ms. Li and participated in our own Read Across America moment.

Friday- We watched the Kindergarten Galimoto Parade: The Kindergarten student made machines that moved either by Push or Pull. They all did a great job and my kids got excited about participating next year. We had Art with Ms. Tara which created construction themed art collages. They painted a piece of cardboard with blue and white paint for background sky. Then they used the wet paint as the adhesive to making houses and buildings out of colorful shapes. The paint acted like glue and the creations turned out beautifully.

This upcoming week will be shortened by and Early Release Day on Thursday and No School on Friday. However, we have a lot of fun things planned, including a visit from Lucky the Leprechaun. We will be starting in on spring themes, mostly working around St. Patrick's Day, rainbows, and Lucky the Leprechaun.

If you have any small boxes you can spare, please send them in for our "Leprechaun trap' making this week, mostly on Wednesday.

Upcoming Events/Dates to remember

Mar. 10 Spring Parent /Teacher Conferences. 4:15 - 8:15
Mar. 11. Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences. 4:15 - 7:15
Mar. 12. Early Release Day. Carpool starts loading around 1:07.
Mar. 13. No School for students or teachers
Mar. 16 - Mar. 20. Spring Break - No School District Closed
Mar. 23 - School Resumes
Mar. 23. Mash's 5th Birthday
Mar. 27. Passport Night

We hope you enjoy the pictures from the week! I was doing a lot of hands on learning and assessing with the students so I did not take as many pictures as usual.

Count and color the correnct numeral of tools counted

Indoor Recess

Working on the letter M and N with Handwriting withut Tears wooden pieces.

Working in our Handwriting without Te4ars Workbooks

Enjoying Music with a substitute music teacher for Ms. Li. The substitute started by reading a music themed story. Mrs. Nutt actually stayed and taught the rest of our lesson with the substitute assisting her. The kids really enjoyed the singing, dancing and rhythm. We did the chicken dance, used some Egg Shakers, and danced in the wind with scarves.