I am delighted to be a teacher at St. Mary School, and it is wonderful to be back for another year in Pre-Kindergarten.  My philosophy of teaching is to engage students as active learners on their educational journey.  The goal is to encourage students to love learning!  They will be guided and supported as they grow academically, spiritually, emotionally, socially, and physically.  I am looking forward to working with you and your child to give him or her an amazing learning experience in Pre-Kindergarten.  Let's create spectacular memories to be cherished for a lifetime!

"I give thanks to you, O Lord, my God, with my whole heart."  Psalm 86:12
 

Highlights for Week of January 10, 2022

RELIGION: The Christmas season ends with the Baptism of Jesus. We will learn about this event by listening to the bible story and watching a video.  Students will also learn about the gift of water and sea animals this week.  They will also complete a booklet about Jesus.

THEME: Winter

ELA 
Word of the Week: snowflake
Letter of the Week: Vv 
This week we will focus on name recognition and letter identification.  We will also learn a different way to sing our ABCs.
Letter of the Week activities include letter recognition, letter sound, and printing of the letter in notebooks.

Letter Formation Song
When you want to print a letter, start at the top!
When you want to print a letter, start at the top!
When you want to print a letter,
And to make a better letter,
When you want to print a letter, start at the top!

MATH
Number of the Week:  8
We love to count in Pre-Kindergarten! We are counting the number of days that we have been in school.  We also have a weather graph that we use to count the type of weather we have in each month. We will also continue to review the attributes of basic shapes: circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles.  
As we continue with Number of the Week, we will also focus on counting to cardinality for #1-10.  We also continue to work on identifying different patterns like AB, ABB, AAB and ABC.




 

HOMEWORK
Monday: Play with Playdoh
Tuesday:  Trace, Print, Color #8
Wednesday: Letter Vv Trace with a Pencil
Thursday: Read a story with a family member
 

WEEKLY SPECIALS
Tuesday:  Physical Education 
Wednesday:  Spanish
Thursday:  Music
 

Gentle Jesus 
Gentle Jesus, now I pray.
Listen please, to what I say.
Make me gentle,
Kind to all.
Just like you, when you were small.
          Amen.           

Guardian Angel Prayer
Angel sent by God to guide me,
Be my light and walk beside me,
Be my guardian and protect me,
In the path of life, direct me.
Amen.