McDanield Preschool Monthly News
March
Dates to Remember
March 2: Read Across America
March 3-6: Read Across America Spirit Week
March 3: Pajama Day
March 4: Hat Day
March 5: Silly Socks
March 6: Red & Blue
March 7: Peer Screening Clinic (9-11:15 AM)- Call MCD Preschool 913-422-7970
Peer Screening Clinic for the 2025-26 school year will be Friday, March 7th. If you have a student that will be 3 or 4 years old before August 31, 2025 and would like to be a peer role model at McDanield Preschool, we will have a screening clinic on March 7, 2025, 9am-11:15am, call 913-422-7970 to make an appointment.
March 13: Family Engagement Night (4-6 PM) @ MCD Preschool
March 17-21: Spring Break/NO SCHOOL
What are we learning?
Cognitive Learning themes this month:
3/3: D, C, L, S, #9/#19, Star and Gold
3/10: N, T, R, U, #10/#20, Triangle and Yellow
3/25: O, E, Review, Rainbow
3/31: A, I, N, M, 0, Square and Brown
At home: Practice 10-20 minutes a day
-Identifying the letters, numbers, shapes, and colors of the week
-Prepositions (under, over, beside, front, behind, between, next to)
-Matching
-Count to 20
-Identify greater and less than
-Find your name and identify the letters in it
Social-emotional themes this month:
Think of Solutions:
Inviting Others To Play
I can use my words to ask my friends to play with me.
Ex: Do you want to play cars with me?
Problem Solving
What can I do?
Managing Waiting
Strategies:
1. Count
2. Sing a nursery rhyme
3. I Spy
Tactile Activities for Home This Month
Practice Cutting
When we teach cutting, we always teach "Thumbs up to cut" and "Keep the scissors straight ahead, turn the paper round instead" to help students remember how to cut on a curved line. Here is a fun song to help them remember.
Self Help Skills
At home practice:
Zipping and unzipping coat
Zipping and unzipping backpack
Opening containers
Using the restroom independently (Pulling up & down pants)
Putting on coat, gloves, and hat
Taking coat, gloves and hat off
Parent Teacher Chat
Please download the USD204 app and join your child's classroom. https://www.usd204.net/page/rooms-support