Announcements

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  We have many fun and exciting activities planned for January.

During this month, we will lbe learning about winter animals and the habitats in which they live.  The children will learn about the Arctic and the Antarctic regions of our world as we study polar bears and penguins. 

During math time, the children will learn about measurement as they compare their footprints to those of a polar bear and their bodies to those of a variety of penguins.  They will measure items in "polar bear feet" throughout the classroom and they will be able to see how their bodies "measure up" to certain penguins.  The children will also be working on a Winter Coloring Book, as they practice tracing and writing the numbers 1-10.  We will also focus on the months of the year as we begin our "brand new year" of 2022.

The children will focus on using descriptive language (adjectives) as they tell about pictures they are shown of Arctic animals during our morning Circle Time.  The prechoolers will then learn how to "carry over" this descriptive detail in their "writing" (illustrations), which we will also begin to practice this month.

We will also learn how water freezes and truns to ice and then as it melts, how it changes back to water.  There will be several "hands on" lessons and observations regarding this throughout January.  The children will also learn about their five senses and how they help us to "enjoy" our world around us.

In religion, the children will be reminded that Jesus was a little child at one time, just like them, and that he was part of a family, just like they are.  They will also learn a song call "I Am Special", which reminds them that God has a special plan for them and that they are all special to God.  

Our unit 5 story in the Happily Ever After readiness series is called "Jingle, Poems and Rhymes".  The children will learn about the letters Ii, Jj and Kk and work with the color purple and squares.  They will learn about positional terms such as in front of, next to, behind and between.  The children will learn to distinguish rhyming and non-rhyming words throughout this unit as we read other stories with rhyming patterns.

January promises to be a fun-filled month of learning, singing, sharing and enjoying our time together in preschool!  Thank you for your continued support at home and for sharing your children with Mrs. Tierney and I this year!!!