Dear parents,
This first week of Pre-K was Awesome.
Our Theme was Yom Kippur. We are all friends in our class and we are learning how to listen to one another. When a friend wants to speak, we all say “shhh”. We use our eyes and ears to listen to our Morah’s and our friend’s. We used cutting, gluing, pasting and painting to decorate our Yom Kippur Book. We also practiced singing our sharing song: “You share, I share…”
In our handwriting program, we are practicing to recognize our right hand. (Note: we do not encourage right hand over left, but it is easier for children to identify their sides by starting by their right hand.) We are also signing in our names every morning, starting at the top and sing the following song:
Where do you start your letters? At the top!
Where do you start your letters? At the top!
If you want to write a letter,
Then you better, better, better,
Remember to start it at the top!
Is this the top, top, top? No it’s the bottom.
Is this the top, top, top? No it’s the middle.
Is this the top, top, top? It’s the top, top, top,
Where do you start your letters? At the top!
In the afternoon…
We went over class rules:
*Indoor voices *Walking feet *Listening ears *Hands off
We are all friends. We are learning to all work together, play together and respect each other in our classroom community. We listen to each other, take turns, respect our friends belongings and share with each other.
We started the Weekly Reader Program. Each student will receive a weekly age appropriate children’s newspaper called The Weekly Reader. Each week high lights a topic of interest that we will discuss in class.
We will be learning a new letter each week. We started the letter ‘A’ “a”. We made a letter ‘A’ page for our alphabet book that we will be adding to all year as we learn our letters.. We ate red, yellow and green apples. We graphed which was our favorite apple. Red was definitely the favorite! We are also working on name recognition- our own name and the names of our friends.
In our reading program we read Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus. Ask your child all about Leo.
*Please send in watercolors (8 colors), 1 glue stick, 1 liquid Elmers glue and a pair of scissors for your child.
Have a good Yom Kippur fast and a happy and healthy new Jewish year.
Morah Chaya and Morah Arielle
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