Announcements

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Thursday, June 1st - Zoo Field Trip, 10:00 am
Friday, June16th - PreK Celebration, 9:00 am
(more information to follow as the dates gets closer)

We will be honoring Mary with different songs, prayers and activities throughout the month of May.  Most of the children are able to recite the "Hail Mary" prayer with simple prompting.  They have a good understanding of how much Mary loves them and that they can always pray to her, knowing she that she hears our prayers.

Our Unit 9 story in the HAPILY EVER AFTER preaschool reading series is Peter and the Wolf.  This is a story told with music.  The characters in the story are all represented by various musical instruments.  During this unit, the children will work with the letters Uu, Vv and Ww.  They will work with triangle shapes and the color white.  The children will also begin using pencils to mark some of their activity and storybook pages.  They will identify same and different beginning sounds in words.  They will continue to gain practice following oral directions when completing their activity pages and when working in their storybooks.

Our Unit 10 story is the final one in this reading series and it is called ABC Book.  The children will work with the letters Xx, Yy and Zz and the color pink.  They will review colors, shapes and concepts taught previously in other units.  The focus of this "story" will be rhyming.  They will continie to use pencils instead of crayons.  Both the activity pages and storybooks will be sent home when completed near the end of the month.  

In math, we will continue to learn about addition and subtraction.  We will also work with numbers 11-20 during Centers.  Several of our games on Game Center days will focus on counting, sorting, identifying shapes and colors.  

During May, the children will learn about plants and insects.  There will be many interesting stories, fun activities and art projets to accompany these springtime themes.  

I hope you all have a GREAT month!  As always, thank you for all your supprt at home!!!