Preschool Newsletter

The third week of our Safe and Healthy Me theme is over Eating Well. Our word of the week is Nutritious. We will be talking about what kind of foods are healthy, what food we should have as treats, and why.

Vocabulary this week: Nutritious, vegetables, fruit

Photo cards: Five Food Group Card

Letters: V, v, X, x

Our math focus will to continue to be on AB patterns. We will keep making patterns with our manipulatives, calendar, and more.

For our calm down strategies, we are reviewing all of our strategies. S.T.A.R, Balloon, Bunny, Pretzel, and Drain.

On the 27th there are Parent/Teacher Conferences, these are as needed conferences. I have contacted those that I would like to meet with. If you don't hear from me about conferences, that means that your child is doing great and I have zero concerns. If you would like to meet with me, please let me know.

I will be at Ike for the conferences as I will be leaving at 11:30 to go out of town. If any Bradley families would like a conference and aren't able to come to Ike, I can set up a zoom conference if needed. If Friday doesn't work, please let me know and we can reschedule.

You can order books online or send the flyer back in with your order. If you have any questions, please let me know.

With a $25 order, you can pick a FREE $5 Book (use code: READS).

Class Order Due Date: 01/20/23

Shop Our Class Page: https://orders.scholastic.com/P96GL

Shop Digital Flyers for Our Grade with Your Child: https://clubs.scholastic.com/prek

January 20 - Early Release

January 20 - Scholastic Book Orders Due

January 27 - Parent/Teacher Conferences - 8:00am - 11:30am** - NO SCHOOL

February 3 - Early Release

February 17 - Early Release

February 20 - Presidents' Day - NO SCHOOL

March 3 - Early Release

March 10 - 1/2 Day School - NO PRESCHOOL

If you have junk mail at home, that would be great practice for them to just cut away on. Or if you don't want to worry about scissors at home, having them tear paper with their pincher fingers. Junk mail has many uses to help with fine motor muscle building.

We are continuing to practice self help skills in the classroom to work on independence. They are getting so great at putting their own coats on, that we are starting to work on putting their own masks on by themselves.

*IF you would like a fine motor packet, I can provide you with one. A fine motor packet has OT provided materials and tips that will help strengthen their muscles at home.

• Uses drawing, scribbling, letter like forms, random letter strings and/or dictation to express thought and ideas.
  
• Understands and uses some questions words (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how)
• Recognizes letters in their name
• Begins to make letter like forms and print some letters in their name.
• Correctly names shapes
• Uses number words to indicate the quantity in small sets of objects (e.g., 2, 3)
• Places objects in one to one correspondence
• Counts in sequence to 10.
• With support, follows classroom routines and manages transitions
• Begins to display socially competent behavior with peers
• Follows common safety rules that have been discussed and taught with reminders
• Recognizes, identifies, and manages own emotions and starts to recognize emotions of others with adult support.
• Moves with increasing coordination and balance (e.g. kicks a ball, jumps, uses alternating feet when climbing stairs).
• Uses classroom tools independently (e.g. scissors to cut paper).

Ike - 913-651-6663, 1 Eisenhower Circle

Email: jgerecke@usd207.org
Website: https://eisenhower.usd207.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=517799&type=u&pREC_ID=770691
Location: 1 Eisenhower Circle, Fort Leavenworth, KS, USA
Phone: 9136516663