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CLASSROOMS - Preschool Kindergarten 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th Computer Art Choir / Band / Music P.E.
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3 Year Old Class
We were able to wrap up our ball study this week. We learned the vocabulary word solid. We passed around balls and compared and contrasted the hollow and solid balls. We finished making our own balls with paper mache.
Our Religion lesson this week introduced the story of Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. This story comes from the Bible which is how God tells how he wants us to live. In this story, Joseph had many sad things happen to him. All throughout these sad times, Joseph still trusted God and did what he wanted him to do to help people. The children used their watercolors to paint a paper bag puppet of Joseph.
Next week is a short week for Thanksgiving. We will read some Thanksgiving stories and discuss our family plans. To celebrate Thanksgiving together, we will make a special snack to eat, apple pie in a bowl. We include some ice cream with our apple pie to introduce the vocabulary term a la mode!
When we return from Thanksgiving, we will be in the first week of Advent. Advent is a time to help us get ready for Christmas. We will light an Advent wreath at the start of class and discuss the meaning of each candle. The first candle is the candle of hope. We are hopeful that God will send us Jesus soon! We will also be learning about St. Nicholas and celebrate his feast day in class.
Highlights for week of 11/23/2020
Our Religion lesson this week introduced the story of Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. This story comes from the Bible which is how God tells how he wants us to live. In this story, Joseph had many sad things happen to him. All throughout these sad times, Joseph still trusted God and did what he wanted him to do to help people. The children used their watercolors to paint a paper bag puppet of Joseph.
Next week is a short week for Thanksgiving. We will read some Thanksgiving stories and discuss our family plans. To celebrate Thanksgiving together, we will make a special snack to eat, apple pie in a bowl. We include some ice cream with our apple pie to introduce the vocabulary term a la mode!
When we return from Thanksgiving, we will be in the first week of Advent. Advent is a time to help us get ready for Christmas. We will light an Advent wreath at the start of class and discuss the meaning of each candle. The first candle is the candle of hope. We are hopeful that God will send us Jesus soon! We will also be learning about St. Nicholas and celebrate his feast day in class.
Highlights for week of 11/23/2020
- Books: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie; 10 Fat Turkeys
- Songs: I'm a Little Turkey
- I Spy a Shape - Shape identification game. Where do you see these shapes in our room?
- Top the Pie - Children will flip over number cards and add that number of "whipped cream" cotton balls to the pie.
- Apple Pie in a Bowl - Children will crush up graham cracker and add pie filling to make a snack.
- Books: A Special St. Nicholas Day; 5 Minute Bible Devotions: Mary's Message; ABC Christmas; First Christmas Poem.
- Songs: Light One Candle
- Letter Lights - Children will match letter lights to letters on a tree.
- Top Secret Christmas Project
- St. Nicholas Shoe Decorating
- Go to the Number - Number identification game.
- Slanted Line Introduction - Children will practice writing slanted lines on paper.
4 Year Old Am Class
Hello 4 AM Preschool Families,
I’m not sure if we could have packed anymore into this past week than we did. The weeks just keep getting better and better. This week was a week full of Halloween fun. From counting witches to making room on a broom. We explored printing and surprised Mr. Earl with a surprise birthday party! We read Room on a broom and some other Halloween favorites. We worked on our letter sounds with our zoo phonics friends and whilst boxing with Dr. Jean. We worked on 1:1 correspondence with Halloween mini erasers. We reviewed the Spanish terms we knew and worked on answering the questions cómo estás with bien (good), muy bien (very good), Más o menos (so so) or mal (bad). We were so happy to see many of you at our parade and finally we enjoyed our Halloween party and games.
Next week we will learn about All Saints Day. We will learn how saints represent certain things and see how they were role models for how we can live like Jesus. We will read the book Lily Lolek Future Saint to see how she is working on becoming a saint. Over the next two weeks we will also be exploring a short change of seasons study that will look at what changes as we move into winter. We will combine Spanish with Religion as we learn to say the sign of the cross in Spanish. Also in religion with a new month comes a new virtue and bible study. The virtue that we will focus on this month is Gratitude. With November being the month of thanksgiving what better virtue to study. Our new bible story is Joseph and his coat of many colors. I can only hope that the children love and engage with this story as much as they did with Noah.
Highlights for Week of 11/02/2020
I’m not sure if we could have packed anymore into this past week than we did. The weeks just keep getting better and better. This week was a week full of Halloween fun. From counting witches to making room on a broom. We explored printing and surprised Mr. Earl with a surprise birthday party! We read Room on a broom and some other Halloween favorites. We worked on our letter sounds with our zoo phonics friends and whilst boxing with Dr. Jean. We worked on 1:1 correspondence with Halloween mini erasers. We reviewed the Spanish terms we knew and worked on answering the questions cómo estás with bien (good), muy bien (very good), Más o menos (so so) or mal (bad). We were so happy to see many of you at our parade and finally we enjoyed our Halloween party and games.
Next week we will learn about All Saints Day. We will learn how saints represent certain things and see how they were role models for how we can live like Jesus. We will read the book Lily Lolek Future Saint to see how she is working on becoming a saint. Over the next two weeks we will also be exploring a short change of seasons study that will look at what changes as we move into winter. We will combine Spanish with Religion as we learn to say the sign of the cross in Spanish. Also in religion with a new month comes a new virtue and bible study. The virtue that we will focus on this month is Gratitude. With November being the month of thanksgiving what better virtue to study. Our new bible story is Joseph and his coat of many colors. I can only hope that the children love and engage with this story as much as they did with Noah.
Highlights for Week of 11/02/2020
- Books: Lily Lolek Future Saint; Saintly Rhymes for Modern Times; Worm Weather;
- Nursery Rhyme: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
- Virtue Focus - Gratitude
- Religion Lesson - All Saints Day - What is a saint?
- Introduce the story of Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors.
- Graphing the weather - Children will help graph the weather over the next two weeks to see how it’s changing.
- Clothing Sort - We will look at what clothing should be worn during what weather.
- Letter Sounds - We will work on and record what letter sounds we know..
- Letter Formation - Children will continue practice writing their names, moving onto their last name if they have mastered their first with name plates.
- Spanish Lesson - Review Spanish greetings: Hola - Hello; Adios - Good Bye; Me Llamo - My name is; Como estas? - How are you?; muy bien - very good; bien - good; maso menos - so, so; mal - bad; por favor - please; gracias - thank you. Introduce - Sign of the Cross - Padre, Hijo, Espiritu Santos.
- Raindrop Counting Game - Children will add blue chain links to a cloud to represent the number shown in the cloud.
Kindergarten Prep PM class
We finished our clothing study this week. Our focus question was, “What other special clothes do we wear?” Thank you for sharing pictures of your child wearing special occasion clothes. They were a great start to our conversation. Thank you also for sending in the shirts for our fun with tie-dye. We will pick a day in December to all wear them!
For one of our small groups, we practiced listening to directions. I would give the children a series of 2 step, 3 step, and 4 step directions to follow. Most of the children are able to follow 2 - 3 step directions. The 4 step directions are more of a challenge. This can be a fun game to practice at home. Give your child a series of directions building from 2 step up to 4 step. The sillier the directions, the more fun they are to do.
Next week is a short week for Thanksgiving. We will read some Thanksgiving stories and discuss our family plans. To celebrate Thanksgiving together, we will make a special snack to eat, apple pie in a bowl. We include some ice cream with our apple pie to introduce the vocabulary term a la mode!
When we return from Thanksgiving, we will be in the first week of Advent. Advent is a time to help us get ready for Christmas. We will light an Advent wreath at the start of class and discuss the meaning of each candle. The first candle is the candle of hope. We are hopeful that God will send us Jesus soon! We will also be learning about St. Nicholas and celebrate his feast day in class.
Highlights for Week of 11/23/2020
For one of our small groups, we practiced listening to directions. I would give the children a series of 2 step, 3 step, and 4 step directions to follow. Most of the children are able to follow 2 - 3 step directions. The 4 step directions are more of a challenge. This can be a fun game to practice at home. Give your child a series of directions building from 2 step up to 4 step. The sillier the directions, the more fun they are to do.
Next week is a short week for Thanksgiving. We will read some Thanksgiving stories and discuss our family plans. To celebrate Thanksgiving together, we will make a special snack to eat, apple pie in a bowl. We include some ice cream with our apple pie to introduce the vocabulary term a la mode!
When we return from Thanksgiving, we will be in the first week of Advent. Advent is a time to help us get ready for Christmas. We will light an Advent wreath at the start of class and discuss the meaning of each candle. The first candle is the candle of hope. We are hopeful that God will send us Jesus soon! We will also be learning about St. Nicholas and celebrate his feast day in class.
Highlights for Week of 11/23/2020
- Books: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie; 10 Fat Turkeys
- Songs: Albuquerque is a Turkey
- Virtue Focus - Gratitude
- Journal - I'm Thankful For..... - Children will list things they are thankful for.
- Apple Pie in a Bowl - Children will crush up graham crackers and scoop apple pie in a bowl for their snack.
- Books: 5 Minute Bible Devotions: Mary's Message; Christmas Trees; The Legend of St. Nicholas; There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell; A Special St. Nicholas Day; Christmas
- Song: Light 1 Candle
- Class Tree Creation - Children will each decorate a triangle to create a class tree.
- Christmas Light Letter Match - Letter identification game.
- Build a Tree Challenge - Children will use playdough and craft sticks to build a tree.
- Letter Formation - Children will practice writing letters N and M on paper using gray boxes.
- Spanish Lesson - Review Spanish greetings: Hola - Hello; Adios - Good Bye; Me Llamo - My name is; Como estas? - How are you?; muy bien - very good; bien - good; maso menos - so, so; mal - bad; por favor - please; gracias - thank you; Sign of the Cross - Padre, Hijo, Espiritu Santos; family words: madre - mother; padre - father; hermano - brother; hermana - sister; abuelo - grandfather; abuela - grandmother.
- Introduce buenos dias - good morning; buenas tardes - good afternoon; buenos noches - good night.
- St. Nicholas Shoe Decoration - Children will cut out and decorate a shoe for St. Nicholas Day.
- Christmas Light Addition - Children will identify numbers and add that many Christmas lights to the tree.
- Top Secret Christmas Project
- If I was an Old ____ I would Swallow a ______ - Children will draw and write words to identify a Christmas object they would swallow.
Preschool PLus
P.E. We warmed up by skipping and galloping. The Games we played Lets go Hunting and Clean Your Room.
Lets go Hunting is when you have a tagger in the middle of the gym and everyone else is on the line at the end of the gym. The tagger asks “Do you want to go hunting?” Everyone else says “yes let’s go” Then the tagger says skip, jump, run, gallop, or hop. Then we all do that skill until the tagger yells “BANG” and everyone runs away trying not to get tagged.
Clean Your Room is where Mr R. divides the gym in half and divides the students in half; we played boys vs girls. Mr R. spread balls over the gym and we had to run to the balls. Then we throw them to the other side of the gym and we had to clean all the balls off our side while the other side tried doing the same. Then we played where we could kick the balls.
S.T.E.M. We watched Curious George’s Thanksgiving story. After the story the kids took turns painting a turkey on the computer. The kids got to finish their thankful turkeys. I think they looked great.
Stories Pete the Cat The Thanksgiving By James and Kimberly Dean
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving By Dav Pilkey
We did a worksheet on who was in the story and where the story takes place.
Next week we will be starting our lesson on Advent and learning about the Birth of Jesus.
Lets go Hunting is when you have a tagger in the middle of the gym and everyone else is on the line at the end of the gym. The tagger asks “Do you want to go hunting?” Everyone else says “yes let’s go” Then the tagger says skip, jump, run, gallop, or hop. Then we all do that skill until the tagger yells “BANG” and everyone runs away trying not to get tagged.
Clean Your Room is where Mr R. divides the gym in half and divides the students in half; we played boys vs girls. Mr R. spread balls over the gym and we had to run to the balls. Then we throw them to the other side of the gym and we had to clean all the balls off our side while the other side tried doing the same. Then we played where we could kick the balls.
S.T.E.M. We watched Curious George’s Thanksgiving story. After the story the kids took turns painting a turkey on the computer. The kids got to finish their thankful turkeys. I think they looked great.
Stories Pete the Cat The Thanksgiving By James and Kimberly Dean
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving By Dav Pilkey
We did a worksheet on who was in the story and where the story takes place.
Next week we will be starting our lesson on Advent and learning about the Birth of Jesus.
Preschool Plus
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