Hey PreKPals and Families-
Can you believe it is already MAY? Time is going to start moving super fast! Hang on!
Happy Happy Monday! This week we will be continuing with our animal habitats study by visiting the Arctic and the Antarctic. We touched on some of this during our winter study but we have so much more to learn! This week we will have science on Thursday because we are working with the other PreK classes to complete our experiment. Next week, we will finish up our animal habitats study with the rainforest and then we will begin our Kindergarten Readiness unit! Can you believe we only have 20 school days left? I am not quite sure where this year has gone!
This week we have library, and music on Tuesday and Guidance on Wednesday and then we will have a make-up music class on Friday.
In literacy, we will be reviewing all of the letters and in math we will be working reviewing on all of the numbers! In Heggerty Phonics, we are doing Rain, Rain Go Away. We are sending a copy home for you to enjoy with your child.
Mr. Brad (my husband) is working on fixing our light table! The parts should be here Monday so maybe we will have it back this week! I wrote a grant for it in 2019 and unfortunately it had a one-year warranty. ☹ So maddening for something that cost so much! But the good news is that the parts were less than $20 – so we have our fingers crossed!! The PreKPals have really been missing it.
Mrs. Dunn sent the lunch menu last week. Check dojo to review!
Our caterpillars are all in their chrysalis now! I checked on them today and they are still hanging around! We are loving waiting on our wings!!
Find your 5 snacks, jacket, Library Book, water bottle WITH A VALVE (NO OPEN POUR BOTTLES), Robot Binder, nap mat and backpack. Please remember that PreKPals only need to bring water in their water bottles. No juice, tea, sodas, milk or other beverages.
Don’t forget that you will NOT need to register your child for kindergarten. Your PreKPal is already in the TCS system so they will roll over into the kinder registration automatically. You received instructions on how and when to update your information last week. It doesn’t take too long to do, so go ahead and get it done to ensure that your child is in the system with all of the needed updates.
NEW Updated Dates:
May
6: PreK Derby Days: A fun day of Pool noodle “horse” races at recess. The girls will have lovely flower hats and the boys will have derby hats! Just a fun little PreK tradition!
*******************9: GRAY DAY!! Mrs. Gray is retiring at the end of the year and everyone is going to show our appreciation by wearing gray on Monday, May 9th.
19: Kindergarten Breakfast & PreK Celebration (We do not graduate at RQES, but we do have a celebration! We have it on the same day as kinder b’fast so that parents only have to take off one day of work and can attend both events!) The Breakfast will be in the morning around 9 am and the PreK Celebration will be at 12:30 or 1:00. I will have to check the times.
25-26: Half Day Dismissal (PreKPals will be dismissed at 11:15 at the PreK doors)
26: Last Day of PreK
NEW Links:
Here’s the link in case you want to have caterpillars at home.
Butterfly Garden With Live Cup of Caterpillars ® – Insect Lore
PreK Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1NIMKDO4OUN7A?ref_=wl_share
PreK Celebration Song: https://youtu.be/iCrs4YINVtA
Let’s Learn to TIE OUR SHOES!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm5ItoIJ4sg
PreK Jacket flip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73qom9IueV8
PLEASE send jackets that button or zip to school. NOT over the head sweatshirts (Unless your child can take it off and put it on INDEPENDENTLY! It takes a LOT of time for 2 teachers to get 18 wiggly students in and out and in and out of sweatshirts.) The PreK Jacket Flip only works with jackets that are open front.
Learn to cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT3PCQTBdeM
A great resource for letters and sounds is the Letter Factory by Leap Pad. You can find them all on YouTube or in DVD’s. All of the Leap Pad videos are great and the songs stick in your head! Here’s a link for you to use at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ID9ucqKtsE&list=PLC5F928D32C3E270D&index=2
Have a great week! Alicia