Welcome to Mrs. Marnie's class!
Week of December 10, 2018
Dear Parents,
I hope your are enjoying your Friday! The children are so excited to countdown our final weeks to Christmas! We have a countdown christmas loops that represent each day until the holiday. Each day we count down and take off a loop to represent one less day of waiting. This week we had a special visit from Saint Nick. He left us a special treat in our stockings. Since our special visit the children are hearing reindeer on our roof and jingle bells in the hallways. We have been trying to catch a photo of him but he is too fast for us. Monday we will start off our week by lighting our classroom advent wreath to represent our second week of waiting until the birth of Jesus. We will continue our Holiday theme with our Letter H. Our friends will make their own "H" house with different shapes and colors. The children will break up into small groups and play games that include: matching the gingerbread houses (visual discrimination) and practice our counting with our homemade gingerbread game by rolling the dice and counting the spaces until he finds his way home. We will also decorate our gingerbread house with fruit loops, then we will match, sort and graph the cereal before we get to eat them, which is the best part. One of our stories for the week include the Gingerbread Man. The children will make finger puppets to act out our story with the group.
Our friends will go on a scavenger hunt in hopes to find our friend, the gingerbread man!
Next week we are having our fourth grade buddies come to the classroom and help us write a letter to Santa. We will also be practicing for our Christmas show on stage as well as in the classroom. The children are doing a wonderful job and they are so excited to have their families come to the show. Just a reminder to practice their lines every night and to bring in the headbands as soon as they are done. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me. This Friday, December 14, there will be no school.
Thank you so much, have a great weekend!
Week of December 3, 2018
Dear Parents,
December is finally here! The kids have been so excited to start December. Let the countdown to Christmas begin. This week we have Fabulous Fun activities planned for the letter F. We will begin our Monday with football themed games to get us ready for Monday night football, GO EAGLES!!!!! During small group time our friends will sort and match up our footballs together. Afterwards they will score a "touchdown" when they match up the correct football letter match and practice letter sounds. Touchdown dances are permited! We will continue the week trying to find all the words that begin with F around the classroom and practice their begining sound.
This week is the perfect time to celebrate our Friendships in PreK 4. Our "Kindness Tree" is quickly filling up with hearts for all of our friends random acts of kindness in the classroom. We will read books about friendship and continue to discuss what it means to be a good friend. The children will participate in a "friendship art" activity as a group. They will each get a turn to create art on their friends mural until the music stops. This keeps going until we get to the last person in the group. Afterwards the children can admire there art collaboration! We will continue with letter and number recognition games that include fish bingo, letter fishing, and leap frog. One of our favorite games is ornament bean bag toss. The children will keep a tally of which colored ornament was hit the most. During art we will continue with our Christmas theme activities thay include finger painting our Christmas scene, feather painting, fork painting Christmas trees, foil painting and painting our classroom Christmas trees with matching letter and number ornaments for play time.
This week we sent home the Christmas show letter with your child's assigned character. We ask that you just take a few minutes each day to practice their line for the christmas show. A little bit of practice each day goes a long way. The children are assigned partners so they will not be alone on stage reciting their line. There will be four children assigned for each character (two from each preschool 4 class) with the exception of the narrator. The children are very excited about their character and looking forward to the show. If you have any questions please let me know. I know its a busy time a year and we appreciate all your help.
Have a Great Week!!!
REMINDER: HEADBANDS FOR THE CHRISTMAS SHOW ARE DUE NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 18. YOU CAN BRING THEM IN TO SCHOOL ANY TIME BEFORE THE 18TH.
Week of November 26, 2018
Dear Parents,
I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving with family and friends. Our friends will be coming back to an Outstanding week with the letter O! We have many fun activities exploring all the words that begin with "O." The children will be making their own owl puppet "who am I" project. Our friends will describe themselves in three senteces and we have to guess who they are describing. During group time we will play octopus games practicing our counting and estimation skills with cheerios. Our friends will have fun in our sensory center drawing with oatmeal, painting with various "O" shaped objects, and playdough. We will also be exploring the ocean with our ocean paintings, fish bingo, and pattern blocks. With the Christmas holiday right around the corner we will begin our ornaments for our tree.
The children will be introduced to our classroom “Office Center”. This center is a big hit with our PreK4. The Office Center allows for imaginative play, practice with letters/numbers, team work, vocabulary and motor skill development as the wee ones pretend they are working in an office. The children will use keyboards, gently used phones, clip boards, pens, highlighters, pads, etc. to sharpen their pre-K skills.
Closer to the end of this week, our pre-K friends will create an Advent wreath to mark the weeks as we near the joyous celebration of the birth of baby Jesus. Advent begins on Sunday, December 2nd with the lighting of the first purple Advent candle. Our friends will consider kind acts that they can do in the classroom as gifts for baby Jesus. When a friend is discovered performing a kind act, he or she will place a heart on our large Advent candles in the classroom. We will do our best to remember to be kind, respectful, and responsible with our classroom friends.
Pre-K 4 Christmas Show: Wednesday, December 19th, 10:00 a.m., O’Brien Hall:
During the week you will receive a letter with information about our pre-K Christmas show. The Christmas show will be held on Wednesday, December 19th at 10:00 a.m., all are welcome! The theme of the show will be signs and symbols of the Christmas season. The children are asked, along with family’s help, to create a simple Christmas-themed headband at home to wear during the show. The crafted headband should reflect his or her assigned symbol, i.e. a Christmas tree, candle, star. Your child will be assigned a Christmas symbol and a short line from the show to practice. Each child will recite his or her line along with two or three other children. We will also sing and recite sweet Christmas songs and rhymes to celebrate the birthday of baby Jesus. Following the show, there will be light refreshments of Christmas cookies to enjoy with our friends and families. More information will be sent home this week. Feel free to contact me with any questions after you receive the information. The children look forward to sharing with you a beautiful birthday celebration for baby Jesus.
Important Dates:
Sunday, December 2 - Christmas Bazaar and Holiday Shop from 1-4:00 p.m. in O’Brien Hall: Check Home and School Association for details. Pre-K families, please consider visiting the Holiday Shop on Sunday if interested in having your wee ones do a little Christmas shopping.
Saturday, December 8 - Pancakes with Santa in O’Brien Hall: Check Home and School Association for details.
Friday, December 14 - No School
Tuesday, December 18 - Christmas headbands are due in school so the children may practice wearing them for the show. If your child’s headband is finished before December 18th, you are welcome to send the headband into school. Please be sure it is labeled with your child’s name.
Wednesday, December 19 - Pre-K 4 Christmas Show: Children arrive to school dressed in Christmas colors. FYI: Our children in pre-K 4A will be performing on the right side of the stage, looking from the audience. The show will begin at 10:00 a.m. with Christmas cookie treats to follow. All are welcome!
Friday, December 21 - Last day of school before Christmas vacation. Dismissal at 2:30 p.m. as usual.
Week of November 18, 2018
This week will be a short week with a half day on Wednesday. We have many exciting activities to share with the children as we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving. We will continue our theme of giving thanks this week with fun learning activities that involve letter and sound recognition with alphabet turkey games. Our friends will go on a turkey hunt to find the matching alphabet feathers for our class turkey. During group time the children will practice fine motor skills and math concepts with our counting turkey game.using counting beads. We will host our own friend thanksgving as our pals prepare our kitchen table with holiday placemats and all the fixings. Of course what's Thanksgiving without desert! We will get messy making our own pie dough and have fun with the ingredients and measuring tools. I am sure the little ones love to help their family in the kitchen at home. We will continue to learn our Thanksgiving prayers and fingerplays as we get ready for our feast on Wednesday. I am truly blessed to share each day of learning and fun with your children! I wish you all a safe and joyous Thanksgiving!!
November 12, 2018
This week we welcomed our new teacher's assistant, Mrs. Hayes. She has many years experience with preschool aged children and we are very excited to welcome her to the class. On Monday, the children offered morning prayer for all of our veterans and for those who presently serve in the military. All of the St. Bernadette school children received the gift of the United States flag from a veteran who visited the school to speak to the elementary classes. God bless America!
This week with the chilly weather upon us, we will be the exploring the creative letter C. The children will be engaging in colorful crafts and many learning activities! Our friends will paint with cotton balls using Autumn colors and fingerpaint our Fall scene mural. One of our favorite games is "I Spy" looking for all of the objects that begin with the letter C. During group time we will be practicing our letter sounds by dipping into our cookie jar and matching the same beginning letter sounds with the items. During small groups we will be refining our math skills, filling our cookie jar with the matching corresponding number. They will play "concentration" games that have them working on listening , identification., memory and counting skills. Our friends will practice symmetry by making beautiful clouds using paint and folded paper. Continuing with the letter C, we will conduct an experiment on how rain clouds are formed using jars, shaving cream and food dye. Cant wait for our little scientists to experience the results of our experiments. The children have been busy getting ready for Thanksgiving. Many of our activities include remembering to give thanks for all our blessings as well as the many yummy foods we will be eating. We will be learning new fingerplays and prayers to get ready for our Thanksgiving feast.
Just a reminder as the weather is getting colder, please label all items as well as switch out your child's extra clothes bag to winter clothes. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at lmarnie@stbl.org.
Thank you!
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