Hello PreKPals Families!

We will finish up with our Gingerbread study this week and will send home gifts for the family this week! They are sooo cute and we hope you enjoy them. We have our Child Safe Program 2 days this week, Salih’s mom is coming to share their family traditions on Wednesday and we have Library on Thursday. Our party and sing along are on Friday and then we have a long holiday break. So much fun all in one week!

Dates to remember-

December

5-17 “Santa For a Day” (See the list in the Bear Binder)

19: Nap Mats come home

20: School Wide Sing Along and Class Party day. Class party at 8:30-9:30.

Sing Along from 9:30-10:30

Dismissal 11:15 for PreKPals, grades K-5 dismisses at 11:30

Learning to be independent-

In PreK, we use the jacket flip. Practice this at home and your child will be an expert in no time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wRKDeKbAcI

Want to get a jump on shoe tying? This is the easiest way to do it and I have been teaching kiddos to tie their shoes for 26 years! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJVR8hHBQyM

Get your 5 snacks packed in a big ziplock bag (Please do NOT pack snacks inside the lunchbox). Find your water bottle (with a valve) and fill it up MAKE SURE IT DOES NOT LEAK.

We kept all nap mats on Friday because this will be a 4 nap week and nap mats will come home on Thursday.

Ms. Hoffman and I cannot wait to see you bright and early in the morning!

Have an amazing week! Alicia

Hello PreKPals Families!

This has been the hardest week ever. Thank you so much for all of your care and concern in the untimely, sudden passing of our PreKPals#3 teacher, Mrs. Weldon Wyant. Although this was her first year in RQES PreK, she and I taught first grade together years ago and she’s been a good friend for over 10 years. Please keep her family and especially her baby boy, Wyn, in your thoughts and prayers. It is going to be a tough holiday season for them for sure.

This week we are learning about Gingerbread! We have gingerbread playdoh and lots of learning activities that center around gingerbread. We are going to learn lots about family traditions in the next two weeks. We’d love to learn about your special traditions or holidays. If you’d like to share anything special that your family celebrates, we’d love to learn more about it. In the past, we have learned about Hanukkah, Kwanza, Diwali, Eid and even the Christmas pickle! Let me know if you’d like to share your favorite holiday or tradition with us!

Our holiday party and school wide sing a long will be on December 20. I will send more information later this week, but a room mom will be contacting you soon for so holiday help. The children are loving seeing their stockings fill with goodies and they are practicing patience by trying very hard to not look in the stockings! We will open them on our party day! So fun!

Reminder: Dollywood is also giving PreKPals a free season pass for 2020! You have to register by January 5, 2020. Click on this link for the article and directions to register. https://www.wbir.com/article/life/people/dolly-parton/dollywood-giving-free-season-passes-to-kids-in-pre-k/51-4b98ecb1-7c5c-4060-80ae-afebcc368757?fbclid=IwAR0_MX5Uy3JeA0nEkEdCqZJ1tTxS5FD-s2QJ0eIrP_O_64ND_mzT-07WTmA

So fun!

Dates to remember-

December

5-17 “Santa For a Day” (See the list in the Bear Binder)

20: School Wide Sing Along and Class Party day

Learning to be independent-

In PreK, we use the jacket flip. Practice this at home and your child will be an expert in no time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wRKDeKbAcI

Want to get a jump on shoe tying? This is the easiest way to do it and I have been teaching kiddos to tie their shoes for 26 years! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJVR8hHBQyM

Get your 4 snacks packed in a big ziplock bag (Please do NOT pack snacks inside the lunchbox). Find your water bottle (with a valve) and fill it up MAKE SURE IT DOES NOT LEAK.

Ms. Hoffman and I cannot wait to see you bright and early in the morning!

Have an amazing week! Alicia

Hello PreKPals Families!

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving vacation! It flew by, didn’t it? Before you know it- our Winter break will be here! This month is short and it is going to fly by!

We celebrated Emma at the end of last month for displaying the character award of “Service”. Emma is always a good helper to others. This month we are looking for a PreKPal who always exhibits “Self-Control”. We will celebrate this PreKPal at the end of the month before we get out for our winter break. Who will it be? Ms. Hoffman and I will be trying to determine who has great self control.

Our fieldtrip to CHOM (Children’s Hands On Museum) is December 3. No special lunch will be needed. We will be back in time for our regular lunch at school. We’d love for you to meet us there or you can follow the bus from school. There “may” be some seats on the bus, but I cannot promise, so if you’d like to attend, please make travel arrangements. You will pay at the door for your admission. OSR pays for the children’s admission. We are going to learn about the Gingerbread Man! So much fun. Look for a special dojo message tomorrow listing all of the important details for this fun trip.

TODAY, December 1 is the LAST day to order yearbooks! You will NOT want your child to miss out. Go to www.balfour.com to order. Go ahead and set up an account. You will order yearbooks through this site until your child graduates! (I have had parents ask, and everyone enjoys getting a yearbook. If you have more than one child you certainly can have them share a yearbook, no need to purchase 2 unless you want to do that.) Yearbooks are optional, but they rarely have any extras, so order now or miss out.

Dollywood is also giving PreKPals a free season pass for 2020! You have to register by January 5, 2020. Click on this link for the article and directions to register. https://www.wbir.com/article/life/people/dolly-parton/dollywood-giving-free-season-passes-to-kids-in-pre-k/51-4b98ecb1-7c5c-4060-80ae-afebcc368757?fbclid=IwAR0_MX5Uy3JeA0nEkEdCqZJ1tTxS5FD-s2QJ0eIrP_O_64ND_mzT-07WTmA

So fun!

Dates to remember-

December

3: CHOM fieldtrip “The Gingerbread Man”

5-17 “Santa For a Day” (See the list in the Bear Binder)

Learning to be independent-

In PreK, we use the jacket flip. Practice this at home and your child will be an expert in no time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wRKDeKbAcI

Want to get a jump on shoe tying? This is the easiest way to do it and I have been teaching kiddos to tie their shoes for 26 years! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJVR8hHBQyM

Get your 5 snacks packed in a big ziplock bag (Please do NOT pack snacks inside the lunchbox). Find your water bottle (with a valve) and fill it up MAKE SURE IT DOES NOT LEAK.

Find your nap mat and bring it to school

We kept your Bear Binder over the holiday (unless you were absent on Friday) and you will be all ready for the week! If you missed school on Friday, please send a parent note or a doctor’s excuse so I can send that to the office for the weekly attendance report.

Ms. Hoffman and I cannot wait to see you bright and early in the morning!

Have an amazing week! Alicia