Preschool Newsletter 3 & 4

Happy Halloween!! Oh my gosh the 4 year old class had such a blast dressing in our costumes, trick or treating, painting pumpkins, watching a pumpkin "explode", getting to eat some goodies, and overall just having so much fun at our party. Thank you to Mrs. Yoder for organizing and setting up for our party, and thank you to Mrs. Schortgen for helping during the party. Thank you to all the parents who brought candy in to share/give out to the class. We couldn't have done it without you! I loved seeing all of the student's costumes, they were so cute and amazing. They also got to talk to/learn about the saints, and they were so kind and respectful during it!

This week we learned the letter H for Halloween. Next week will be letter J for Jesus and jobs/careers. If anyone would like to come in to talk about their jobs, we don't have anyone signed up. Next week there is no school for the 3 year old class. E-learning was already sent home in a packet for you.

Thank you for everyone signing up for Parent-Teacher Conferences. I hope it was beneficial for everyone. If you have questions or concerns about anything, please let me know. Any work you can do with your child at home to help them learn and grow more will be extremely beneficial to your child.

I hope everyone has a great Halloween, hopefully you go to Trunk-or-Treat, and have a great weekend!

• identify patterns and what comes next
• pick # card and put that many erasers in Halloween cauldrons and then write how many they counted each time
• pick # card and put that many ghosts on haunted house with tweezers and cotton balls
• Halloween Bingo
• color by shape pumpkins
• count and circle how many Halloween objects
• graph and write how many objects counted

• Letter of the week: H (learned the sounds it makes, words that start with that letter, and how to write it)
• letter H tracing and writing letters on their own
• upper and lowercase matching letters on bat halves
• Halloween scavenger hunt around the room
• glue pictures into the boxes if they start with h sound or not
• cut and glue pictures into H houses or not depending on what it starts with
• identify pictures in spider webs and match to its starting letter on the spiders
• identify the picture and what sound it starts with, then put cotton ball over the letter that makes that sound
• pick picture and then determine if it starts with H, M, B, or A and put them into those piles
• Those starting to read:

1. read cvc words and match to picture

• virtue:
• visited saints and got to learn about different ones

• saw "exploding" pumpkin- we put baking soda, food coloring, and vinegar in a pumpkin and watched the reaction

• Halloween lacing cards
• pick # card and put that many ghosts on haunted house with tweezers and cotton balls

• painted pumpkins
• put "hair" on letter H

• identify patterns and what comes next
• pick # card and put that many erasers in Halloween cauldrons and then write how many they counted each time
• pick # card and put that many ghosts on haunted house with tweezers and cotton balls
• Halloween Bingo
• color by shape pumpkins
• graph and write how many objects counted

• Letter of the week: H (learned the sounds it makes, words that start with that letter, and how to write it)
• letter H tracing and writing letters on their own
• Halloween scavenger hunt around the room
• glue pictures into the boxes if they start with h sound or not
• find H fishes and cover with erasers
• make letter H with cotton balls

• virtue:

• Halloween lacing cards
• pick # card and put that many ghosts on haunted house with tweezers and cotton balls
• put eyeball in bag of hair gel and then trace the lines with the eyeball following the lines

• put "hair" on letter H

Job/career week week of Nov 2nd

Letters: Upper and lowercase letters. We have been practicing identification, sounds, and how to write our letters, Identifying letters by their sounds, what sounds words start with, syllables, rhyming, start and end sounds of words, blending

Handwriting: 4's- correct letter and number writing formation, 3's- tracing, especially names

Math: writing and identifying 1-10 or 20, counting, patterns, putting #'s in order, bigger and smaller, shapes, colors, 3D shapes

Religion: church etiquette

Sight words:

Overall: fine motor skills, listening and green choices, hygiene, especially with all our sicknesses going around, respect for others and our school, especially toys and materials, not taking toys from others but asking for them nicely

• bring a water bottle and snack everyday
• have a change of clothes with them
• check their folders at least once a week if not daily
• Wednesdays we get out at 2:30 for the 4 year-olds

Hi, my name is Dani Strack. I am so grateful to be at St. Louis again this year. This is my 4th year at this school, but 5th year teaching. We are expecting our first child, a little girl in November! I will be on maternity leave at some point in November or December, and will come back at some point in January. Aside from teaching, I love to babysit, do art, puzzles, play with my dogs, go on bike rides, be outside, and do fun adventures. I am so excited to have this opportunity to teach your children. I know we will have a great year full of learning, fun, exploration, creativity, and faith. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't be afraid to reach out to me either through text, email, or ClassDojo. I am so excited for this year, I know it's going to be a blast!

Dani Strack

Email: dstrack@stlouisacademy.org
Phone: (260) 804-3608