Welcome to Mrs. Mullen’s class!
 

Kindly return any Back to School Forms
and Kid Coupon Books

*We are a tree nut free classroom*
 

Friday, October 12, 2018

TGIF!

Well, the wee ones were so energized by this nice cool weather!  Our friends got right down to the final day of letter S week with super-cool activities.

The children participated in three small group activities this morning.  The first event allowed the children some not-too-spooky fun with a Halloween BINGO game.  This game allowed for the children to enrich their vocabulary with Halloween-themed words.  Following directions is always a key skill when playing a game, too!

Our friends also had free play and played a spider and web counting game.  First the wee ones created a web using black paper and a white crayon.  The crayon allowed for the children to design an original web.  One pre-K friend offered a spider fact and told us that the spiders use their webs to catch their food.  Correct!   The pre-K pals then spun a numbered spinner to determine how many spiders they were going to put on their webs.  Now, our friends did not just pick up the spiders...they used tweezers to pick up each plastic spider.  Such good muscle control!

The children were out the door quickly when the school had a surprise fire drill this morning!  What a wonderful job our friends did getting up and out the door quickly and quietly.

Once we returned from the fire drill, our friends enjoyed snack and a few neat-o songs on the SMARTboard.  We also played a game of Simon Says and practiced our poem and song for the Halloween parade.

Before we enjoyed a yummy lunch, the children had a bit more free play as well as a scissor snipping lesson.  Our friends practiced safe and useful scissor skills with me in small groups.  Snip!  Snip!

After lunch, our pals built up, up, up with cups, had fun drawing pictures and piecing together puzzles.  We also read a silly story about dinosaurs attendind a dance titled, "Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp".

Rest time allowed for peaceful moments.  Clean-up, prayers and song to end our day closed out a super week!

Next week will be positively pleasant in pre-K!  Can you guess the next letter?

 

Week of October 15-19, 2018

Dear Parents,

What a lovely fall weekend!  I hope you enjoyed a pleasant time with your family.

This week our pre-K pals will participate in plenty of practical and perfectly pleasant letter P presentations!  The children will delight in the language and fun of Halloween poems and songs, investigate pumpkins, enjoy popcorn and pizza learning games, create puzzles and practice piecing them together, engage in a STEM-building activity inspired by the “5 Little Pumpkins” rhyme, meet Pete the Cat through a number of storybook readings, care for pretend classroom pets, offer prayers in a variety of ways, and welcome Mrs. Montie (our favorite principal!) to the pre-K classrooms for a little surprise.  On Wednesday, October 17th, the children will have a lot of fun as they have the opportunity to come to school in their PAJAMAS for letter P!

Pajama Day:  Wednesday, October 17th - Our pre-K friends are welcome to wear their pajamas to school to celebrate letter P.  We will also have a popcorn party during snack time.  The children may wear their PJs, but please no nightgowns.  If your wee one would like to wear comfy clothes like sweat pants and sweat shirts, that is A-OK as well.  Please remember to put sneakers on those wee feet, too!

Friendly Reminders:

We are a tree nut-free classroom.  Kindly check all food items for traces of tree nuts or if manufactured in a facility that may have contact with tree nuts.   Please check with me before sending in any birthday or holiday treats.  Thank you for your consideration!

Arrival and Dismissal Parking:  Please pull into the school lot and continue driving forward in a lane when you arrive to drop off or pick up your child from school.  Kindly do not park along Bond Avenue in front of the school doors to drop off or pick up your child.  All children are to be escorted to the Bond Avenue school door area.  These directives are for the safety of all our children and families.  Thank you!

Please check to see if you have downloaded school forms needed by the office for information purposes.  All families have returned classroom pre-K forms, but there are general school forms that are needed by the office, too. These forms are especially important in the event of a school-wide emergency as well as the permission to allow your child’s photo/name to be posted online or in print.  Kindly review to see if you have downloaded the Back to School forms:  https://www.st-bernadette.org/back-to-school-forms-1

If you have yet to return the KIDS COUPON BOOK, please do so if you are not purchasing the book.  Thank you!

Halloween Parade:  Our pre-K friends will be getting in the spooky spirit with a Halloween Parade on October 31st at 9:15 a.m.  After arrival the children will come out the Bond Avenue doors at 9:15 a.m. to recite a pumpkin poem  along with a Halloween tune.  The little ones will then parade along the sidewalk around to the front of the school then back into school.  Short and Sweet!  We hope you can join us for a fun way to start the Halloween day.  Children are asked to wear costumes over their clothing to school.  Please send in a bag with your child’s name so we may place the costume back in the bag.  Kindly do not send in any accessories that may hinder your child from walking down steps, etc.  Please, no toy weapons.  Thanks!

Thursday, November 1st:  No school due to the All Saints Holy Day

During the month of October the pre-K friends will continue to learn about fire safety and important actions that help keep everyone safe and sound.  Mrs. Wallace presented a fun and educational Physical Education activity last week in which the children practiced dialing 9-1-1 and stopped, dropped, and rolled, too.  Important lessons for all!  The children will learn about the role of our community helpers, the firefighters, and practice leaving quickly and quietly during a fire drill.  The lock-down drill will be presented and practiced in an age-appropriate manner, too.  

October is the month of the rosary.  We will practice the beautiful prayer, “Hail Mary” in the classroom and offer special prayers for all of our pre-K friends and families.

Cold and flu seasons are on the way.  Please check the school website for information regarding guidelines for returning to school after an illness:
https://www.st-bernadette.org/communicable-diseases

Chillier weather is coming!  Kindly be sure that your little ones are prepared for playtime outside in this crisp weather with proper outerwear.

Please label all items with your child’s name especially outerwear, water bottles, and gym uniforms.  Thank you!

Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns at any time.

May you have a happy and blessed week,
Kaky Mullen