December Information and News

Preschool students have been practicing  for the St. Malachy Christmas program. This will be at Creston High School at 6 p.m. Please check folders for bus transportation permission forms, forms are due by Tuesday December 4, 2018.  

There are many upcoming projects/forms due. The December family project has been sent home. Please complete your child’s tree and return by December 7.  We will use these to create one large class tree outside our classroom. Book orders are due next week as well.  If you are ordering books for Christmas, please let me know and I can disguise them or leave them in the main office to be picked up.


This week we worked on writing the letter Oo and the sounds it makes. Our big word this week was hibernation and we are learning about the many winter sleepers.

Preschool students may play outside if the feels like temperature at the time of outdoor classroom is 13 degrees or higher. Please send outside snow gear, if a child does not have snow clothes they will have to stay on the concrete area outside away from snow.

Conference Info!

We had so much on our visit to the Creston Fire station. This week we have worked on the letter Ff. We have practiced writing it and saying the letter sound. We have learned a variety of items that start with the letter Ff. After conferences, we will start learning two letters a week. We have finished our beginning of the year unit and will start a mini unit on Fall/Halloween. We had a fire drill today. I was beyond impressed with each preschool student. They did exactly what was expected of them and were so brave .

  If you have not yet signed up for a conference please use the link below to sign up!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e4ca8aa29a4f49-preschool2

Fire Station Field Trip and other news

   It has been a busy week at preschool. Everyone took such great school pictures yesterday.  There were hearing tests on Wednesday. You will find the results on a yellow paper in your child’s take home folder.  We are super excited for our field trip to the fire station on Tuesday October 16, please send $2 to ride the trolley, if you have not yet done so. (If you are not sure you have paid or not please email me and I can check.)

  There is a religion puzzle from our lesson to color, cut out and glue with your child. You can have your child put it together and glue to paper.. When you are finished send it back to preschool!

   The weather is changing and the temperature is dropping. Please make sure your child is wearing weather appropriate clothes and has a coat.  We have gone through the extra set of clothes for each child. If your child’s bag has been sent home, please change out your child’s set of extra clothes for cold weather attire or add something you are missing.


If your child brings an item for rest, please no baby dolls, just a stuffed animal. 

Preschool information

     Preschool picture day will be on October 10, 2018. Picture forms will be sent home soon. 


     The class is settling in to the new classroom and routine really well. We have continued with our “Beginning of the Year” study from the Creative Curriculum. We will finish this unit in a few weeks. We will finish out the month of October with a mini Fall/Halloween unit.  On Wednesday we started our first lesson from “Stories of God’s Love” the preschool religion curriculum. Each week we will add more and more. 

   Our friends Al, from Al's Pals came to visit a few times this week. He brought his friends Ty and Keisha to talk with the students about sharing and being kind to friends. Students learned a new song about being friends and danced with friends.

   I will be at meetings on October 12 and October 19.  Also, I'm getting married on October 27 so I will be gone October 24-October 30.  If you have any immediate concerns please call the office while I'm away.

Second Week Information

          Our first full week of school is almost finished! We are still working on learning school, center, outside and many other rules and routines. I have seen so much growth in each student since their first day of preschool.

     Please send your child’s purple folder everyday. They make beautiful artwork that needs a safe way to get home, along with other important papers.  Students should not be bringing toys from home to preschool. They will have an opportunity when we start Star of the Week to share items from home.

    Rest items are sent home Fridays, please wash them and return them on Mondays. If your child has not brought a blanket for rest time and would like to, please send one.

Scholastic Reading Club offers a wide variety of high-quality books to help your child find something that they will feel excited to read. Plus every order that you place earns FREE books and supplies for our classroom!

            Two ways to order! You can fill out and return this order form or order books online: Scholastic.com/readingclub, our Class Activation Code is: P8XLY   

            Please have book orders returned by Thursday September 20, 2018.  Let me know if you have any questions!

Music Concert/ End of the year news

We finished off our Mo Willems unit with a hotdog party! A class favorite story by Mo Willems is “The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog!” The last day of preschool is Thursday May 24, 2018. It has been a wonderful and fun filled school year.  Each student has grown and learned so much! We have been working hard to finish portfolios.

                    Three year old preschool students are welcome to attend Wednesday May 23 12:15-3:15 if they need transportation to the concert practice at the high school.  If you do not need transportation just meet us there and you are free to go when PK is done rehearsing!   

                 

                    Four year old preschool graduation is May 24, 2018 at the chapel located in the St. Malachy middle school building. Students are welcome to leave with their families when the ceremony is finished. 

April 30- May 3

         We are almost finished with our final study. We have explored many of the trees at St. Malachy. Our visit to the Mt. Ayr Nature center was very informing. We got to see a variety of trees, plants and bugs on our nature hike. Both classes had such a blast on this field trip.

         We will spend the last few weeks of preschool learning about one of our favorite authors, Mo Willems and all his loveable characters.

       The Blank Park Zoo field trip is Thursday May 10, 2018 for four year old preschool students. Preschool will be from 8:10-3:10. Students will need a sack lunch and comfortable walking shoes. The bus will be leaving at 8:30, please have your student at school no later than 8:15.

There will be no morning preschool for the three year old class on May 10, 2018, due to the field trip for the afternoon class. 

       May 24, 2018 is the last day of preschool for both classes. There will be a graduation ceremony for the four year old afternoon class.  It will be at St. Malachy at 2 pm. More information will be sent home soon.