Week 1: Welcome to spring theme!
Dear Spoede Pre-K Families,
Welcome back from spring break. I hope everyone is had a wonderful break and enjoyed your time with family and friends. Thank you for sharing your vacation photos to share. I will add them to a spring break section in our Pre-K blog. This first week back from break included projects and themed activities welcoming spring.
Monday- Shared about our spring break adventures, either from our trips or from activities we did from around St. Louis. I showed the pictures that you turned in like a slide show. We were prepared to celebrate Mash's birthday but he was still on vacation so we celebrated on Tuesday instead. Read books about spring and enjoyed the beautiful weather that was not too hot and not too cold. Enjoyed cooperative play with our friends.
Tuesday- We celebrated Mash's 5th birthday with Birthday GoNoodle and some dancing and movement to Danny Go. We worked on Ladybug Spots Counting where we made dots with black paint and Q-Tips to match the numerals on each ladybug. We started working on our spring Wreaths by coloring and cutting the parts needed to make the wreaths. This will be a multi-day project. We also started work on Bug Jar Count, where the students cut out pre-colored bugs, glued them into a bug jar, and then counted and wrote the number of how many bugs they had in their jar. We enjoyed Music with Ms. Li. The students were ponies in Ireland with scarves as our tails. They walked, trotted and galloped with our scarves to Irish music. They also used drum sticks to keep the special beat to the song John Kanakanaka, Tur-ih-yay!... a Cape Cod Fish Tale.
Wednesday- We worked on Raindrop Counting where we used blue paint and finger prints to match the number of raindrops falling from clouds to the numeral on each cloud. We also continued work on our spring wreaths. We started putting together and gluing our spring wreaths with all of the components that we had colored and cut out. At recess, the students took a nature walk, looking for signs of spring.
Thursday- We worked on colorful dragonflies, using pastel colors and Q-tips to make patters on the dragonflies. We finished up the students who had not had a chance to work on the Bugs in a Jar counting activity. We also worked on very decorative eggs, using tape to make designed compartments on the eggs that we painted different colors with pastel paint and paint brushes. Once dried, we pulled off the tape and they were beautiful spring eggs.
Friday- We enjoyed Art with Ms. Tara. We watched a book about spring and then used cardboard rectangular pieces to make lined prints on black paper that represented grass. This will be the grassy background to our spring flowers we will make during our next Art class.
This week we will continue with our spring theme.
Upcoming Events/Dates to remember
March 31. 3rd Grade Comotion in the Ocean Assembly Concert. 2:00 pm all school assembly 6:15pm evening concert for families and parents.
April 1. Yearbook Orders due. (See information below)
April 7. No School - Teacher Professional Development
April 8. Julia's 5th Birthday
April 16. Ms. Levise's Birthday
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| Yearbook Orders 2025-26 Yearbooks are on sale now! Order through the Spoede link with Wagner Portrait Group. Yearbooks are $25 plus an option $6 to personalize the cover. Don't delay - the last day to order is April 1! REMEMBER - All 4th graders will receive a FREE yearbook courtesy of the SSA!! |
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| Kindergarten Registration for 2026-27 is Open Children who will be 5-years-old before Aug. 1 are eligible to attend kindergarten this upcoming school year. If you have an incoming kindergartner, registration is now open! Find out more about the registration and screening process here. |
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Pre-K--12 Ladue STEAM Fest '26! Get ready to IMAGINE, INVENT, and BE INSPIRED. Join us for an immersive journey through six STEAM innovation zones! April 8, 2026 | 6 to 8 p.m. | Ladue Horton Watkins High School Learn more and RSVP here. Volunteer with Us We need community volunteers to help with registration, setup/cleanup, giveaways, crowd support, and activity zones. Volunteer Sign-Up
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Panorama Survey for Families As in the fall, I’d ask all of our Spoede families to please consider taking a few minutes sometime over the next couple of weeks to complete the "Family-School Relationships Survey" within the Panorama platform. Your feedback helps us - as a district and, moreover, as your local elementary school - learn how we can be the very best school for you and your child(ren).
You can access the survey via this link or the longer hyperlink below. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration!
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The first group of photographs are of vacations taken earlier in the semester. The next set are either vacations or stav-cations durning spring break. Finally, we have all of the pictures of our activities from last week.
We hope you enjoy all of the fun activities.
Vacations Taken Prior to Spring Break
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Spring Break Pictures
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First day back from spring break! Monday Morning share about our spring break.
Alphabet train with Alphabet stencil cards.
Cooperative play!
Ladybug numeral match! Painting Dots with black paint and Q-tips onto ladybugs to match the numeral.on each bug.
Making first step of spring wreaths.
Cutting out bugs to glue into bug jar and count the total, writing the number with help in needed.
Cooperative play after rest time.
Music with Ms. Li! The students were walking, trotting and galloping as ponies in Ireland.
Morning recess
Counting Raindrops. Using finger painting to add raindrops to match the numerals between
1 -10.
Working on Spring Wreaths. Lots of coloring and cutting before putting together.
Taking a nature walk during afternoon recess.
Putting togeterh the spring Easter Wreaths.
Picnic snack allowing a little extra time for our friends to wake up from rest time.
Free Choice play
Thursday morning recess playing soccer with Mason, our Westminster Senior.
Dot painting patterns with pastel colors on Dragonflies
Making colorful eggs with tape and pastel paints.
Finishing some counting of bugs cut out to put in bug jars.
Afternoon recess!
Cooperativwe play after snack and during wake up time from rest time.
Finishing up some spring eggs.
Art with Ms. Tara. Listened to a story about spring and made green grass with paint on black paper with cardboard as the painting tool. The next art class will add flowers to our background.
Nico getting a Walking Boot from the Dr. for his hurt foot.
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