Hey PreKPals and Families-
Last week was just. The. Best. Week. Ever!!! We heard that over and over from the PreKPals. Thank you so much to all of you who came to the kindergarten breakfast, to the PreK Celebration and to the Spring Fling portion of our day on Friday! I know we had a lot of photo posts on Friday, but we wanted to let you see Field Day because it was so much fun! Special thanks to our amazing PTA and all of the workers and volunteers who made it all happen. We are so lucky at RQES, because our school community really wants every child to be included. That’s why they do the INVEST fundraiser at the beginning of the school year. Your donations paid for all of the snacks, water, materials needed for games, and all of the bouncy houses. We appreciate all of you so much! Thank you for helping us have such a great year!
This week, we will have a full day on Monday and Tuesday, and early dismissal on Wednesday and Thursday. Dismissal is 11:10 on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is the first day of summer vacation for the PreKPals (teachers still have to work) and that is the first day we will officially say that they have turned into KinderFriends! We are going to be so sad to see them go! If you know that your child will stop coming to school before the last day, please let us know as soon as you can. We do still have things to send to them and we want to make sure everyone gets all their things.
We hope you loved the portfolios!! They are a labor of love but our amazing Mrs. Dunn has a system and she is always on top of it! When you remove the Night Before Kindergarten book, that will give you a sleeve to put your certificates in. Did you love their awards? We worked hard to match everyone’s award to their gifts and personalities!! It was so fun! We loved the way they cheered for each other as the awards were given. PreK is the very best!!
On Monday, we are making our handprint ceiling tile with everyone’s handprint so that we will be able to remember them for years to come. They love coming back as a big kid and looking up to see their name and their handprint on the ceiling. I’ll send a photo when we are finished.
I will keep this dojo active until this time next year. You will not get the weekly blog posts because I have already made a new dojo for next years class. However, you can still access the dojo to capture pictures and if you need me to send an announcement about a party or some other event, I am happy to do that for you.
This week, your child will need his backpack everyday. We WILL EAT LUNCH EVERY DAY. If you normally send a lunch from home, please continue to do that. If your child normally has a lunch box and doesn’t bring one, we will provide a school lunch. It’s a state law. I have to serve lunch for the day to count as a full day.
Find your 4 snacks, 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.
We will send napmats home on Tuesday afternoon, and all their extra clothes will come home on Thursday.
We have loved every minute of PreK with your children. Thank you for sharing them with us! We wish you the very best safest summer, and we will see you in August! Please come by to see us and tell us all about who your new Kinder teacher will be!
We love you all! You were the very best part of all our days! Keep reading, keep learning, keep counting, keep singing and keep being awesome!
Alicia and Whitney
Dates:
25-26: Half Day Dismissal (PreKPals will be dismissed at 11:10 at the PreK doors)
26: Last Day of PreK
NEW Links:
PreK Celebration Songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCrs4YINVtA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4fI7Ik2rwY
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
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