Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

We have had another fun week at Pre-K learning all about our ABC's. We reviewed the letters M, B, P, S, and R. We also worked on identifying and naming the letters in our name. We made Chicka Trees with our handprints, made a collage of letters, and even made a Chicka Hat! Our Fun Friday activity this week included making and decorating cookies in the shape of different letters in the alphabet.  Check out the pictures below to see our activities from this week.

Next week we will begin talking about weather changes as we transition into the Fall season. We will read The Rain Came Down by David Shannon and talk about what types of clothing we wear according to what the weather is like outside. We will also talk about the letter N and the color brown. We will be doing an art project that requires recycled paper towel rolls and would greatly appreciate any donation to our class. FYI- Next week we will be having our Scholastic Book Fair. This is a great opportunity for you to expand your child's library! LCPK Yard Sale will be Saturday, October 1st from 8:00 to 12:00 AM. Come out and support our school! LCPK Spaghetti Dinner will be Tuesday, October 4th from 5:00-7:00 PM. Adutl tickets are $6 and child tickets are $4.00 each. Tickets are on sale now and must be purchased in advance. Each dinner will include spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert, and tea. You can dine in or carry out. See Judy Flatt in the front office for more information. Our class newsletter, calendar, lunch menu, and scholastic book orders will be sent home next Friday, September 30th. Please keep these documents as reminders of what will be going on in our classroom and around the school for the month of October. As fall is fastly approaching, please make sure that you label your child's jackets/sweaters. This is the best way to ensure that your child will come home with the clothing items that they brought to school. As always, thank you so much for all that you do! We look forward to another awesome week! Mrs. Oakley and Mrs. Whitehead

Pre-K Friends and Fun!

We have had an awesome week learning all about how to be a good friend. We talked about what it means to be nice to our friends, read a story about new friends, and we even learned the nice way to speak to our friends. Click on the link to read our story from this week - New Fish on the Reef.

We also talked about how we play nicely at the playground. Check out our pictures below of our students playing with their friends.

Next week we will be reviewing letters M, S, B, R, and P. We will read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault and will practice identifying the letters in our name. Look below to watch Chicka Chicka Boom Boom at home with your child.

FYI -

• Please see last weeks blog if you would like to donate items for our class art projects. Also, a big THANK YOU to all you parents who sent in varous items! We really appreciate your support.
• McTeacher's Night (September 19th) has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date. Please check our blog and your child's bookbag for more information regarding this event.
• Scholastic Book Fair will be the week of September 26th - 30th.
• Please check your child's folder daily for important school and classroom information.

We look forward to another awesome week at Pre-K!

Mrs. Oakley and Mrs Whitehead

We Are Family...

We have had a wonderful week learning about families! We made a family tree in our classroom that included several pictures of ours students and their families. If you have not sent in a picture of you and your child, please send one on Monday so we can add it to our family tree. Other skills we worked on this week included the letter R, the color purple, identifying our left and right, and stringing beads. Check out our students enjoying our FUN Friday activity of stringing Froot Loops.

Next week we our theme will be All About My Friends. We will talk about how we can be a good friend to our neighbor and read the story Skippyjon Jones in the Dog House by Judy Schachner. We will also be talking about the letter P and the color white.

FYI -
We do many fun art projects in our classroom that require recycled materials. We would greatly appreciate any materials that you would like to donate to our class. Below is a list of recycled materials that we need most.

• Toilet paper rolls
• Paper towel rolls
• Egg cartons
• Shoe boxes
• Old magazines
• We also would benefit from the donation of Fiori pasta (or any other types of dried pasta), rice, zip-lock bags (any size), and food coloring.

If you would like to donate any of these items, please send them in your child's bookbag. Thank you so much for all that you do!

Mrs. Oakley and Mrs. Whitehead

If You're Happy and You Know It...

We have had another awesome week at Pre-K! This week we explored our feelings - happy, sad, angry, and scared. Monday, we talked about feeling happy and sang the song "If You're Happy and You Know It". Tuesday we talked about feeling sad. Check out the video below to see Elmo teach us about Happy and Sad.

Finally, on Wednesday we talked about feeling angry and Thursday we talked about feeling scared. We read "IF You're Angry and You Know It" and played a Feelings Game from Sesame Street. Check out our kidd-o's showing us their different feelings.

Happy!

Sad

We also talked about the letter B and vocabulary words such as boy, baby, butterfly, banana, and blue. We also made B's out of pasta and we made a collage of B words.

Just a few reminders...

• We will be observing the Labor Day holiday on Friday and Monday!
• Next week we will talk about Our Family. Please remember to send a picture of you and your child for our family tree.
• Open House will be rescheduled for next week. We will be sending home a reminder next week with updated details.
• Make sure you turn in a completed Impact Aid Form on Tuesday, if you have not done so already.
• Parent Volunteer Orientation will be September 7th at 9:00 AM. If you would like to volunteer at Pre-K you must attend this meeting.

Next week we will be learning about Families. We will talking about the Letter R and the color Purple. Mrs. Whitehead and I hope that you have a safe and fun Labor Day weekend! Thanks for all you do!

Mrs. Oakley and Mrs. Whitehead