Pre-K Newsletter

November 2 - 2 Hour Early Dismissal

November 3 - No School

November 5 - PTO Meeting

November 6 - Mama K’s Fundraiser Orders Due

November 12 - Planetarium Field Trip

November 18 - Mama K’s Fundraiser Order Pickup

November 19 - Multicultural Night

November 25, 26, 27 - No school for students

🧥As the weather gets cooler, please send in jackets for recess.

📁Check take home folders daily.

✅Remind your child of school rules.

📕Please read to your child each night at home.

📃PLEASE JOIN OUR PTO!!

⛔Do not send toys from home to school.

👣Take a family hike

🍂Collect colorful fall leaves

🔎Go on a nature scavenger hunt

🌲Make a pinecone bird feeder

🍎Drink some apple cider

🎥Have a family movie night

📖Read with your child.

✍🏼Practice name writing.

🔢Practice counting to 10.

🔠Say and sing the alphabet.

🍎Practice rhyming.

🍎Practice sorting objects - use cereal, pasta shapes, etc.

Domain 1 “All About Me” - During Read-Alouds in Listening and Learning, students learn concepts and vocabulary related to the five senses, body parts, and body movement.

• I can recognize and name the letters in my first name.
• I can understand that letters and their sounds make words and I can find the first letter of my first name.
• I can talk to my teachers and my friends and reply to what they are telling me.
• I can talk about what I am learning and share my learning with others.

Marking Period 1 Skills:

We are learning how to rhyme.

• I recognize rhyming words in spoken language.
• I identify and isolate individual words within sentences.

We are learning how to identify hearing syllables.

• I count the syllables in a word.
• I pronounce the syllables in a word.
• I blend the syllables in a word.
• I segment syllables in a word.

We are learning how to identify hearing onset & rimes of a single-syllable word.

• I blend onset & rime.
• I segment onset & rime.

We are learning how to write our names.

• I recognize and name some upper and lowercase letters in my first name.
• I recognize name in print.
• I isolate and pronounce the initial sound in name.
• I print upper and lowercase letters in first name.
• I recognize name begins with a capital letter.
• I use a pencil correctly (tripod grip).
• I develop fine motor skills necessary to control & sustain handwriting.

Unit 1 (September) Overview Math:

The theme of apples serves as a context for sorting, counting, patterning, graphing, and comparing this month. As they become familiar with the routines and rhythms of classroom life, children create calendar markers for the month, participate in a variety of counting games, and explore some of the math manipulatives they’ll use throughout the year.

• I explain that rules help protect and keep us safe.
• I compare how rules might be different at home, school, and community.
• I explain why rules are different at home, school, and community.
• I determine if classroom rules are fair.
• I describe ways to resolve conflicts.

Before your child knows the letter names or sounds:

• Identify letter names on the cards (uppercase and lowercase)
• Letter writing - Pick a card and have your child write the uppercase and lowercase letter
• Indoor/Outdoor Letters - Look for the letters in print at home and at the store/park/anywhere you are with your child with printed letters

When your child knows some or all the letter names and sounds:

• Spread the cards all over the floor. Call a letter sound and have your child find that card.
• Work together to arrange the cards in alphabetical order.
• Pick a letter card, say the sound, think of something else that begins with the same sound.
• Spell three letter words with letters - cat, bug, pin, etc.

Families and Communities

• Students will learn about families, family members, celebrations and traditions, and work and play in their community.

• We are learning how to identify and hear syllables in a spoken word. (blending and segmenting)
• We are learning how to hear onset & rime in spoken words. (blending)
• We are learning how to write our names.

Conflict & Compromise

• How can we make good choices?
• How can we resolve a conflict?

We are exploring what happens when we shine light on different objects.

We are learning how to create shadows with light.

Pumpkins and leaves provide numerous contexts for counting, sorting, patterning, graphing, and measuring during Number Corner and Problems & Investigations this month.

The October number routine is “Regular Finger Patterns.”

Skills Letter Focus:

• Cc, Oo, Ii, Uu, Aa, Gg, Ee

Continue to Practice these Letters:

• Bb, Dd, Jj, Kk, Pp, Tt, Vv, Zz

Skills

• Students focus on rhyming, syllables, onset and rime, name writing, hearing sounds in words, letters and sounds, and handwriting practice.

Knowledge

• Students learn about families, family members, celebrations and traditions, and work and play in their community.

Help at Home

🔠Practice alphabet cards at home daily

📝Practice name writing daily

📔Reading with your child daily

• This month, children combine shapes to make designs, pictures, and larger shapes.
• They count, sort, pattern, and graph shapes. They hunt for shapes in the classroom, around the school, and on the playground.
• They listen to stories about shapes; play shape games; move in, on, and around giant masking tape shapes; observe that many of the things we see each day are composed of two or more different shapes; and discover that shapes are everywhere.

Help at Home

🔢Number Recognition 0-10

🔢Counting to 10 and then 20

🔢Counting backwards from 10

🔢Identifying the number before and after

🟥Making patterns

🟢Identify Shapes

Place and Movement

• Describe how near and far our school is from other places.
• Identify important objects in the classroom using position words.
• Transportation is used to move people and places in the community and beyond.

Human and Environmental Interaction

• Personal identity is shaped by community. Location, families, schools, and institutions create and support the broader community culture.
• What makes my community special?