Preschool Newsletter

We made it to the 10th week of school and the start of the 2nd Quarter! Yay! This Friday there is an early release, 10:00am and 2:20pm.

PICTURE RETAKES are on October 19th for BOTH schools. If you would like your child to have a picture retake, please let me know. Otherwise, only those that were absent for the first picture day will have their picture taken again.

Starting back with Frog Street, week 2 in our Family and Friends Theme focuses on My Relatives, or their extended families. We will be talking about our grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.

Our Vocabulary this week: relatives, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, cousin

Photo discussion cards: reading, relatives, relatives #2, red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange

This week's letters: A, a, G, and g

For math we are starting to talk about the color and shape of different items; using words like blue, circle, flower, green, heart, orange, purple, red, star, and yellow.

For our calm down strategy, we are looking back at our S.T.A.R. breathing method.

October 19th is Unity Day or Kindness Day, and at school we will be wearing as much orange as we can. Unity Day is part of National Bullying Prevention Month, which is in October. So on Wednesday, feel free to wear as much orange as you want!

October 19th - Picture Retake Day For Both Schools

October 21 - Early Release

October 25 - At Bradley - Hearing and Vision Screening

November 4 - Early Release

November 11 - NO SCHOOL Veteran's Day

November 18 - Early Release

November 23-25 - NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break

December 2 - Early Release

December 15 - Early Release

December 16 - NO SCHOOL - Teacher Work Day

All of the kiddos loved seeing the fire truck, meeting Sparky the Fire Dog and the Firemen. Both classes were able to into the blow up house to practice "Get Low and Go" with some smoke blown into the house.

• Uses drawing, scribbling, letter like forms, random letter strings and/or dictation to express thought and ideas.
  
• Understands and uses some question words (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
• Recognizes letters in their name,.
• Correctly names shapes. (Squares, circles, triangles, rectangles.)
  
• Uses number words to indicate the quantity in small sets of objects (e.g., 2, 3).
• Places objects in one to one correspondence.
• With support, follows classroom routines and manages transitions.
  
• Begins to display socially competent behavior with peers.
• Follows basic health practices (e.g., puts dirty tissues in trash, washes hands, covers mouth when sneezing) with occasional reminders.

The video for the firefighter coat method is below. One of the big struggles that we have in class, is that are unsure what to when asked to pull their sleeves to the correct side of the coat. They will put their hands in the sleeve, but when they pull their hand out they don't keep hold of the coat sleeve. In class we are working on keeping hold of the sleeve when we pull the sleeve out.

Mrs. Dana Floetke, the kids call her Mrs. Floetke (pronounced Flakey).

Bradley - 913-651-6915, 1 Bradley Circle

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