Pre-K Report

May 14-18, 2012

Field Day: May 17- We will be outside for the majority of the day. Please dress your child appropriately for a day of fun physical activity! You may want to put sunscreen on your child as well.

Camp Learned –a-lot: May 21- We will be outside much of this day as well doing lots of different kindergarten readiness skills we have learned in a “camping” setting.

Water Day- May 23- Please send a bathing suit and towel (optional sunscreen) in your child’s backpack. We will do water day activities after lunch.

Pre-k Picnic: May 24- This day pre-k students do not come to school. We meet at Don Fox Park for a celebration with all LSSD Pre-k. We will be there from 9:00-12:00 and serving hot dogs and such for lunch. If you think you are able to make it, please sign up at the sign in book so we can get an estimated count. We will be handing out your child’s portfolio, progress report, and DVD at the picnic. You are responsible for your child this day. We hope to see you there! 

Theme Time:

This week finishing up hospital this week. We will introduce ambulance scenarios to extend out play for the week. Everyone is doing a great job with this theme!

Field Trip News:

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! To everyone who helped out on field trips this year!

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be reading books about Zoo animals this week.

Upcoming Events:

Field Day May 17

Water Day May 23

Pre-K Picnic at Don Fox Park May 24

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

What did you do in centers today?

Read me a play plan.

Help your child write a simple sentence.

If you would like a sound map to help your child continue their writing this summer, please let us know!

 Pre-K Report

May 7-12, 2012

Our Pre-K Performance is this Thursday, May 10 at 10:00.

** We still need 2 parents to ride the bus with us to the Library and Park on Tuesday. More volunteers are welcome to meet us there but 2 must ride the bus with us as a pre-k rule. Please let us know asap if interested. **

Theme Time:

This week we continue to play out problem solving scenarios in our hospital centers.

 Share and Tell: Every Friday your child may bring an item from home having to do with our theme, a favorite toy or something that interest them and share about it during our Share the News Activity.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be Tuesday, May 8 to the Library and Don Fox Park.

 New Vocabulary:

 We continue to read books about hospitals and vets. We also we be learning about farm animals this week. We will leave names of animals found on the farm, their babies.

Upcoming Events:

Field Trip to Don Fox Park and Library May 8

Tennessee Program for upper grades May 8

Parent Performance May 9 at 10:00

Field Day May 17

Water Day May 23

Pre-K Picnic at Don Fox Park May 24

Think and Talk Time:

Ask your child to identify letters sounds. “What letter sound do you hear in the beginning of the word – cat?” “c”

What starts with a d sound? Ball or dog?

Tools of the Mind:

 As we the school year comes to a close, we are really encouraging children to write more independently. Most students are able to write their lines for a sentence on their own and many are writing the sounds that belong on those lines.

 Pre-K Report

April 30-May 4, 2012

Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration is on May 3^rd at College Hills Church of Christ 10:00-6:00. Take your packet to registration if you have not turned it in already.

***If you have not given us an updated shot record then you will need to turn that in by the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year for Kindergarten. This includes any shots your child might need AND their yearly physical. There are 2 separate signatures for this on your child’s immunization form. ***

There is No School this Friday for students.

We will also be conducting testing this week with Children’s Progress and Brigance.

*If you would like to order a field day t-shirt the money is due Monday, May 7. The cost is $10. Order forms are at the sign in shelf.*

Theme Time:

This week we are expanding our centers by using scenarios and problems in make believe play. Share and Tell: Every Friday your child may bring an item from home having to do with our theme, a favorite toy or something that interest them and share about it during our Share the News Activity.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be Tuesday, May 8 to the Library and Don Fox Park.

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be many books about hospitals, doctors, and vets to build our theme such as Franklin Goes to the Hospital. Our vocabulary words are x-ray and operation.

Upcoming Events:

Pre-K & K Registration May 3

No School on Friday, May 4

Children’s Progress Testing May 1

Field Trip to Don Fox Park and Library May 8

Parent Performance May 9 at 10:00

Field Day May 17

Water Day May 23

Pre-K Picnic at Don Fox Park May 24

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

Make compound words. Ex.What does the word “foot” and the word “ball” make? “football”

What did you do in centers today?

Name a word that starts with the letter “v”.

 Pre-K Report

April 23-27, 2012

Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration is on May 3^rd at College Hills Church of Christ. Please turn in your kindergarten registration packet if you haven’t already.

*Spring pictures must be returned by Tuesday, April 24.

Share and Tell: Every Friday your child may bring an item from home having to do with our theme, a favorite toy or something that interest them and share about it during our Share the News Activity.

Theme Time:

This week we will continue exploring and understanding our Hospital and Vet Centers and the roles and actions in them.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be Tuesday, May 8 to the Library and Don Fox Park.

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be many books about hospitals, doctors, and vets to build our theme. Our vocabulary words are pediatrician and patient.

Upcoming Events:

Pre-K & K Registration May 3

No School on Friday, May 4

Children’s Progress Testing May 1-3

Field Trip to Don Fox Park and Library May 8

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

What did you see at the hospital?

What did you do in centers today?

Name a word that starts with the letter “t”.

Tools of the Mind:

 Make a Rhyme: This activity introduces simple rhymes and rhyming patterns. This one can easily be done at home. Talk with your child about a rhyme such at cat and hat.  The rhyming pattern is “-at”. Then ask your child to come up with different beginning sounds to form new rhyming words. Such as cat, hat, fat, sat, mat, pat, etc.

 Pre-K Report

April 16-20, 2012

Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration is on May 3^rd at College Hills Church of Christ. Please turn in your kindergarten registration packet by Friday, April 20.

*Spring pictures must be returned by Tuesday, April 24.

Share and Tell: Every Friday your child may bring an item from home having to do with our theme, a favorite toy or something that interest them and share about it during our Share the News Activity.

Theme Time:

This week we will begin exploring and understanding our Hospital and Vet Centers.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be Monday, April 23 to UMC hospital.

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be many books about hospitals, doctors, and vets to build our theme. Our vocabulary words are nurse and newborn this week.

Upcoming Events:

Field Trip to UMC Hospital April 23.

Pre-K & K Registration May 3

No School on Friday, May 4

Children’s Progress Testing May 1-3

Field Trip to Don Fox Park and Library May 8

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

What does a nurse do?

What did you do in centers today?

Name a word that starts with the letter “s”.

Tools of the Mind:

 Write Along is an extension of our message of the day. In write along, children write the daily message using scaffolded writing instead of watching the teacher. The children draw the lines and write the words on their own dry erase board. Children are able to write using the many letter sounds they know and using the sound map.

 Pre-K Report

April 9-13 2012

Pre-K and Kindergarten Registration is on May 3^rd at College Hills Church of Christ. More information will be coming soon.

*** We will begin Share and Tell this week. Every Friday your child may bring an item from home having to do with our theme, a favorite toy or something that interest them and share about it during our Share the News Activity. ***

Theme Time:

This week we will continue building our Hospital and Vet Centers.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be April 23 to UMC hospital.

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be reading Curious George and The Animals along with many other books about doctors. Our vocabulary words are doctor and veterinarian.

Upcoming Events:

Field Trip to UMC Hospital April 23.

Pre-K & K Registration May 3

Children’s Progress Testing May 1-3

Field Trip to Don Fox Park and Library May 8

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

What does a doctor do?

What does a veterinarian do?

Name a word that starts with the letter “R”.

Tools of the Mind:

 Story Lab: Story Grammar

This activity is where we read a story several times throughout the week to become more familiar with it. Then we sequence the story using pictures and our puppet friend Fiona.

You can do this at home when reading a story with your child. Choose a book they are familiar with and talk about what happens in that story. Choose no more than 4-5 events in the story to talk about and put in correct order.

 PreK Report

April 2-5, 2012

Thank you for donating any items for our hospital/vet centers!

Please send in small wrapped candy for our Egg Hunt on Wednesday.

If you are joining us for our field trip, please be her at 8:15.

I’m so glad to be back! Thank you all for your kind words and well wishes! I have missed all my sweet friends! I’ve so pleased to hear all the wonderful things your children have done with Ms. Maggie and Ms. Erin while I was away. They were in such great hands!

*** We will begin Share and Tell this week. Every Friday your child may bring an item from home having to do with our theme, a favorite toy or something that interest them and share about it during our Share the News Activity. ***

Theme Time:

This week we will begin building our Hospital and Vet Centers.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be April 5 to Cumberland University.

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Our vocabulary words are accident and underneath.

Upcoming Events:

Field Trip to Cumberland University April 5.

No School- April 6.

Field Trip to UMC Hospital April 23.

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

What do you find in a hospital or doctor’s office?

What did you see on your field trip to Cumberland University?

Name a word that starts with the letter “Q”.

Tools of the Mind:

 Letter Sound Recognition

Help your child learn the sounds of the letters by this fun game we play with our Mystery Question.

Find and object/picture and same the name of it and emphasize the first letter /sound/.

Example: boat: Say, /b/ /b/ /b/ boat

Then show your child 2 more objects and say them the same way. Make sure one of the objects starts with the same sound the first object does. Example: Fish and Book

Ask your child to say them with you and pick the one that matches or sounds the same as the first. So boat and book.

 PreK Report

February 27- March 2, 2012

Check out our class website at www.samhouston.us/mccord

Theme Time:

This week we will be continuing with community helpers.  We will be introducing story problems.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be March 8 to the Lebanon Fire Department and the Lebanon Post Office.  Field trip forms will be sent home this week.

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be reading The Little Red Hen.  Our vocabulary word is sprout.

Upcoming Events:

Field Trip to the Post Office and Fire Dept. is March 8.

Spring Break is March 9-25.

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

What is the weather like today?

What do you wear when it’s raining? Snowing? Sunny?

Name a word that starts with the letter “N”.

Tools of the Mind:

We are focusing on matching the number of lines to the number of words in a sentence.  Please practice saying a sentence out loud, then restate it and mark a line for each word.

 For example:

I  am going to help cook.

1.       Say the sentence out loud

2.       Say the sentence and write a line representing each word

3.       “Write” the words on the lines

4.       Check the number of lines written compared to the number of words spoken

 PreK Report

February 21- February 24, 2012

Check out our class website at www.samhouston.us/mccord

Theme Time:

This week we will be continuing with community helpers.

Field Trip News:

Our next field trip will be March 8 to the Lebanon Fire Department and the Lebanon Post Office.

 New Vocabulary:

 We will be reading The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear.  Our vocabulary word will be ripe.

Upcoming Events:

Monday, February 20: Presidents Day- No School

Thursday, February 23: Family Night

Family Night will be at Coles Ferry Elementary School from 5:30- 7:00.

Think and Talk Time:

The following are questions you may ask your child at home about what he or she is learning:

What fruit is this?

What are your Five Senses?

Name a word that starts with the letter “M”.

Tools of the Mind:

Our play planning has improved greatly over the year. Please work with your child on recognizing the initial sound of a word.  This will increase their ability to recognize the first letter of a word.