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Week 2 Ocean Theme

Dear Spoede Pre-K Families,

I hope you are all celebrating your Mother's on Mother's Day!!! Thank you all for making Teacher Appreciation Week special for the Pre-K Team. We love working with your students and enjoy watching them grow. It was great seeing so many of you at the Fine Arts Festival on Tuesday evening. This week we worked on finishing our special projects for the Fine Arts festival. We also worked on Mother's Day projects and celebrated Nico's 6th birthday. The whole class went through the Glow Show in the Art Room on Wednesday so those who missed seeing our cool hammer heads at the fine arts festival got to see the whole thing. We will continue to work on our Ocean theme.

Monday- Enjoyed wearing pajamas and working on our public speaking, sharing stories about what the students brought for Show and Tell. Finished up any last minute touch ups for our bulletin board art work for the Fine Arts Show.

Tuesday- Worked on Aluminum Foil fishes with permanent markers. Started working on our Mother's Day Hearts by cutting out the frames. Enjoyed a Kindergarten music performance and a Choir concert, the same performances the students would perform for parents and families at the Find Arts Festival.

Wednesday- Celebrated Nico's 6th Birthday with GoNoodle Birthday song and Nico's Choice of dance/movement songs from Danny go. Completed the last few letters in our Handwriting without tears work books. Started adding colored pieces of tissue paper to our "stained glass" heart frames for mother's day presents. Visited the Glow Show and enjoyed all of the exciting and colorful artwork. We completed a We Belong/No Room For Hate lesson on Compromise.

Lesson Objectives:

Identify and celebrate differences in their peers' preferences, interests, and ideas.
Demonstrate active listening and turn-taking by using a specific protocol to ask for and acknowledge a peer’s ideas.
Co-create a "plan for play" with at least one peer, demonstrating a willingness to compromise and include others' suggestions.
Practice non-verbal behaviors of acknowledgment, such as smiling, nodding, or waving, to make others feel seen and included.

We started with discussing the meaning of Compromise. We discussed what happens when we don't agree on how to play, such as arguing, unkind works, taking toys, leaving others out, hitting or pushing and eventually sitting and playing with nothing. We then listened to the Read Aloud, "The Great Compromise" read by Dr. Koenig and written by Julia Cook. We discussed several of these different scenarios:

What is something you like to do that is different from your friend? 

What do you do when you and a friend don’t agree on what to play? 

What happens when our friends aren’t listening to our ideas? 

If two friends want to play different games, how can they make a plan so everyone is happy? 

Why is it important to treat everyone with fairness, even if they like different things than we do? 

How does it feel when someone listens to your idea and adds it to the plan? 

What are some kind words we can use to invite someone who is sitting alone to play with us?

We did a little role playing, and then we wrapped up with what it looks like to compromise.

To compromise, we have to cooperate. Behaviors that show cooperation include:

Eye contact
Smiling
Taking turns
Sharing ideas
Asking questions
Using kind words

Thursday- Morning music with Ms. Nutt. Music went along with the theme of the Under The Sea Glow Show and our Ocean theme. Learned a song about Sailors . As the students walked around, they waited for a certain verse and and then jumped into hula hoops which were the ships. Enjoyed our last visit with Ms. Maggie Travers and Jag, our favorite Thursday visitor. Ms. Travers and Jag have been reassigned to work exclusively with Old Bonhomme and the Fifth Grade Center.

We will miss Jag and Ms. Travers very much. Hopefully we will be able to get another service dog

someday. Finished work on our "We Love You to Pieces" mother's day "stained glass" hearts.

Friday- Enjoyed Art with Ms. We worked with self drying clay sculptures and experimented with various tools to make different textures into the clay. Next we will paint the clay. We added a hole so we can make a multi-colored beaded loop to help hang the sculptures. Next week we will finish our Very Hungry Caterpillars and we will also meet with some Fifth grade students (who will take bus over to Spoede.) A group of Fifth Graders collaborated with the LECC, Old Bonhomme and Spoede Pre-K students to make a Monster art project. We are really excited to see what they have done with our Monster pictures.

Upcoming Events/Dates to remember

May 16 - Spoede End of the Year Picnic. 12 - 2:00 (See Details Below)
May 17 - Ladue High School Graduation
May 21. Pre-K End of the year Celebration 9:30 - 1:30 on Pre-K Playground.
May 22 - Khaza's 5th Birthday
May 25 - Memorial Day. No School for students or teachers
May 27 - Early Release Day. Last day for students
May 28 - Teacher Work Day: No School for Students
May 29 - Teacher Work Day: No School for Students

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Spoede Pre-K Grade Level Art Raffle SSA Fund Raiser

You have a great opportunity to win a part of our Pre-K Class experience this year by purchasing raffle tickets to win the pre-K art project. Our pre-K students all worked together to create this turtle flower base with a thumb print lady bug flower pot. It’s a special item commemorating this year at Spoede and helps out the SSA fundraising effort.

Raffle tickets are $10 each and can be purchased online at membership toolkit under “signup parties”. The winner will be chosen at the Spoede picnic on Sat., May 16. However, you do not need to be present to win!.

Here is the direct link: https://spoedeschoolassociation.membershiptoolkit.com/packet/19214

SAVE THE DATE: End of Year Picnic

Mark your calendars for the Spoede End of the Year Picnic!

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026

Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 PM

Location: Spoede backyard

Details: Bring a blanket and picnic basket full of your favorite foods, or order from food trucks including Speedway Eats, Tom's Coffee, and Kona Ice!