RELIGION

We will be practicing “The Passion Play” and reading New Testament stories. You should have been given your child’s character.

LANGUAGE ARTS

We are beginning a new unit “At the Farm”. We will learn new finger plays, songs and read books about farms. We are sounding out three letter words. We will be practicing writing letters on the white board. We will be making a book about baby animals and farm animals.

MATH

We will be weighing different objects. We will also be adding numbers 1 – 10. We will be subtracting numbers 1 -10. If I have one and I add one more it will make two; if I have two and I add one more it will be three etc. If I have ten and I take one away I will have nine, etc.

SCIENCE

We will be talking about plants.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will learn about USA symbols.

IMPORTANT DATES

Spring Break March 15 to March 12, 2010

Passion Play – April 1, 2010

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The Environmental Club will meet March 9 and March 30 from 3:30-4:00 p.m. in Mrs. Strunk’s Pre-K room.

Did you know that gadgets shouldn’t go in landfills? They can leak lead and mercury into soil and ground water.

We will be having a collection drive for the following items: cell phones, batteries, ink cartridges, and light bulbs. The contest will begin Monday, March 22 and end April 22, Earth Day.

The class with the most items will earn an ice cream party!

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Religion

We are learning what Advent means and that Christmas time is when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. We will be learning about Christmas Traditions around the world and our own Christmas Traditions. We are also working on the Christmas Program.

Math

We have been using a bar graph. We have graphed our favorite colors, eye color, and shapes. We continue to work with numbers 1 – 10, sequencing and one-to-one correspondence.

Language Arts

We are still working on our Unit “Helping Hands.” Learning what a community helper is.

Important Dates

• December 17, 2009 Christmas Program at 7:00pm
• December 16, 2009 Christmas Breakfast at 9:00am to 10:00am
  Making Gingerbread Houses 10:00am
  Noon Dismissal

Ms. Martinez and Mrs. Strunk want to wish you a very blessed Christmas and may the joy of Christmas be with you always.

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Religion

November is Saints Month! We will learn about saints and what it means to be a saint.

Math

We will be working with numbers 1 – 10. We will also be working with more and less, first, last and in between.

Language Arts

We are finishing up our unit on ‘All Kinds of Friends” and we will begin another unit “Helping Hands”.

Science

The Food Pyramid is our focus and we will begin an experiment with water.

Social Studies

We will be learning about the first Thanksgiving. We will be reading about the Pilgrims and Indians. We will be doing arts and crafts on these subjects.

Thank you to our parents who helped make the carnival a big success. PREK won the pizza party!!!!!

We want to take this time to wish all our families a very happy blessed Thanksgiving!!!!!

REMINDERS:

November 13, 2009 Parent Conferences

November 24, 2009 Half Day (noon dismissal)

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PRE-K had a great time doing the Boosterthon Fun Run!! It was a great way of starting off the school year with Saints Pride.

During Religion time we are learning how to be friends of Jesus and that God made each and every one of us special. We have also learned about the creation story.

We have been having a great time during Language Arts. We have been reading books, singing songs and learning finger plays.

We have been working hard with shapes and counting one to five at Math class. We are also sorting objects.

In Social Studies we are learning about manners and when to use them. We have also practiced our class procedures, cafeteria procedures, how to line up procedures.

The primary colors are our focus in Science.

Exercise is what we do in PE besides play games.

The children have also been busy going to their specials. It seems everyone likes to go to their specials, Spanish, Library and Computers.

The best was Teddy Bear Day! We had a great time and the picnic was lovely.

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