Pre-K3: February 2024

Qq Week was quite quick but not at all quiet!

Weekly Recap: We had a short but very busy week! Letter Qq was so cool to learn about! We also learned about the water cycle and had lots of fun with clouds and rain as part of our Weather Unit.

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: We will be learning Letter Rr, focusing on Rainbows in our Weather Unit, as well as finishing up our February themes and launching our March ones!

🐷🐮🐍Space Farms Zoo & Museum Field Trip🐯🐻🐦

Mark Your Calendars! We will be taking a combined PreK-3, PreK-4 and Kindergarten Field Trip on Wednesday, April 24th with a rain date of Friday, April 26th!! Details will be coming home soon!!

🐇🐰Easter Hat Parade🐰🐇 - March 22nd at 11:15am (rain date 3/25): Easter is in March this year and so is our Annual PreK Easter Hat Celebration! Time to get out the Peeps, plastic eggs, flowers, bunny ears and your hot glue gun!! It's your time to shine in creating the most amazing Easter Hat with your little honey bunny! You can be as simple or elaborate as you'd like. I'm sure your little cutie will be proud to wear whatever you create together! Please see the notice that came home in your child's folder for more details. (I thought I'd give everyone an early heads-up since the dollar stores are already full of Easter items!)

Here are some examples from years past:

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Rr
Number of the Month: Number 6
Colors of the Month: Red, Pink and Gray
Shape of the Month: Heart

February Themes: Counting, Numbers 0-6, Sorting, AABB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Camouflage, Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Calendar, Valentine's Day, Dental Health, Presidents' Day, Groundhog Day

Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Praying for Others, "God is Love"

Show & Tell: Friday, March 1st: 🌈Wear your favorite rainbow color to school and bring one thing that is your favorite color to show and tell our friends about!

Dates to Remember:

March 1st: 🌈R is for Wear your favorite Rainbow Color Day!!

March 8th: 🧦S is for Silly Sock Day

March 22nd: 🐇🐰PreK Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt 11:15

March 25th: Easter Hat Parade Snow Date

March 28th: NOON DISMISSAL- No After School Care

March 29th- April 5th: No School- Easter Break

April 8th: School Reopens

April 24th (rain date 4/26): SPACE FARMS PreK and Kindergarten Field Trip (Details coming soon!)

Our Week in Photos:

📸 Here's A Little Snap Shot of Our Week📸

Q is for Quilt

💗We love our little "Q"-ties!!💗

q is for queen too!

Ask your little one all about the NAUGHTY queen we read about!!

And then our studies took quite a twist as we turned our eyes to the skies!!

We took a little field trip outside to look at the Clouds above and to take our Winter Tree Photos! It may have been our last chance to take them since we are forecast to have springlike weather this upcoming week!! YAY!!!! A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Lieutenant Rocco for helping our class with our photos!! He was such a big help!

Then we came inside and made our own clouds!!

We used a cool new painting technique!!

(ssshhh! It was more fine motor practice!!)

We had so much fun making our rainy day umbrellas and counting out our SIX raindrops too!!

Our scientists were back at it mixing a new color!!

Ask them which two colors we used to make our new one!!

HINT, HINT: We used it to paint our rain clouds!!

Can you guess what we will be adding to our rain clouds next week???

Raindrops were so fun to learn about and to make too!

(Lot's of fine motor skill work here too!!)

Our rainy day stories came out great too!

Polar Bear and Penguin Yoga was sooooo cooool!!!

We got a jumpstart on some rainbow fun!!

Now here's a look at what our Five Day Friends were up to this Fun Filled Week:

We learned all about Penguins!!

We loved making our Penguin Puppets!

And used balloons to help us waddle like penguins!

SSSHHHH!!! Don't tell our little penguins they were working on their gross motor skills!

Then we took a polar plunge!

YES! THAT'S REAL SNOW!!! Brrrr...

ssshhh... Don't tell our little scientists that we were working on sensory skills!!

We loved learning about real penguins!

And we learned why they can swim even though they are covered in feathers!

Our scientific experiment was so cool!!!

Then we turned our attention to Polar Bears! We learned that even though Penguins and Polar Bears do not live near each other, their HABITATS are very similar. We also learned all about CAMOUFLAGE too!!!