Preschool Newsletter 3 & 4

Welcome back! I hope everyone had an amazing spring break full of great family time. I'm so happy to be back with everyone. This week is one of my favorite weeks. We learned about dinosaurs and the letter D. We even had a dinosaur come and visit us!!! His name is Rex and the students loved him! It was such a fun experience for them. Next week we will be learning about letter X for extraterrestrials, space, and planets. We will also be talking about Holy Week.

For the 4 year old class, we won't have school next Friday, Good Friday.

This is a link to order the Bright School Kits for 2025-2026. It's on the SLA website under Resources as well.

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I hope everyone had a great week, and an amazing weekend.

Math:

• create patterns with paint and dinosaur sponges and identify letters of patterns
• dinosaur subtraction and write the #s left over
• put #s in order
• dinosaur # adding and write #s of how many altogether
• learn about 3D shapes and common objects that look like those and match pictures with those shapes
• guess how big dinosaurs will be and measure with strings and then cut the strings to correct amount and put in order from biggest to smallest
• fill in jars to make 10 (learning how to make the same # with different amounts)
• match written word of #s to the #s
• color dinosaur by #

Lit:

• Letter of the week: D (learned the sounds it makes, words that start with that letter, and how to write it)
• make letters with our bodies
• d tracing and write letter on own
• find dinosaurs around the room and ID the letter/sounds of those letters
• d sounds
• write letters or sounds in sand
• write dinosaur words on own
• dinosaur land game- like candyland, pull cards and ID missing letters and go to that spot, or go forward or back depending on the card
• match upper and lowercase letter
• with dinosaur masks on, act like dinosaur and stomp on the letters given
• read words of dinosaur anatomy and cut and paste them where they go
• For those starting to read:
• read/blend sounds of cvc words starting with d
• roll dice of cvc words and read/write word
• use dinosaur scales to create cvc words

Religion:

• virtue:
• stations of the cross

Science:

Fine Motor:

• play with salt dough
• be archeologists and dig and find fossils

Art:

• help create salt dough and play with it, then make dinosaur footprints and paint them
• color dinosaur picture
• create fossils/skeletons with tape on pictures- tape the dinosaur and then color it, then take it off and look at the skeleton they created

Math:

• roll dice and color dinosaur that matches with how many dots there were
• match dinosaur silhouettes and draw lines that match
• match fossils to which dinosaurs it is with strings and glue

Lit:

• Letter of the week: D (learned the sounds it makes, words that start with that letter, and how to write it)
• make letters with our bodies
• d tracing and write letter on own
• d sounds
• write letters or sounds in sand
• dinosaur land game- like candyland, pull cards and ID missing letters and go to that spot, or go forward or back depending on the card

Religion:

• virtue:
• stations of the cross

Science:

Fine Motor:

• play with salt dough
• be archeologists and dig and find fossils

Art:

• help create salt dough and play with it, then make dinosaur footprints and paint them
• color dinosaur picture
• create fossils/skeletons with tape on pictures- tape the dinosaur and then color it, then take it off and look at the skeleton they created
• paint with dinosaur sponges

Letters: Upper and lowercase letters. We have been practicing identification, sounds, and how to write our letters, Identifying letters by their sounds, what sounds words start with, syllables, rhyming, start and end sounds of words, blending

Handwriting: 4's- correct letter and number writing formation, 3's- tracing, especially names

Math: writing and identifying 1-10 or 20, counting, patterns, putting #'s in order, bigger and smaller, shapes, colors, 3D shapes

Religion: church etiquette

Sight words:

Overall: fine motor skills, listening and green choices, hygiene, especially with all our sicknesses going around, respect for others and our school, especially toys and materials, not taking toys from others but asking for them nicely

No school April 18th

• bring a water bottle and snack everyday
• have a change of clothes with them
• check their folders at least once a week if not daily
• Wednesdays we get out at 2:30 for the 4 year-olds

Hi, my name is Dani Strack. I am so grateful to be at St. Louis again this year. This is my 2nd year at this school, but 3rd year teaching. I love our school community, environment, and all the people that make this place amazing. In 2022, I graduated from Ball State University, with a dual major in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education. Aside from teaching, I love to babysit, do art, puzzles, play with my dogs, go on bike rides, be outside, and do fun adventures. I am so excited to have this opportunity to teach your children. I know we will have a great year full of learning, fun, exploration, creativity, and faith. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't be afraid to reach out to me either through text, email, or ClassDojo. I am so excited for this year, I know it's going to be a blast!

Dani Strack

Email: dstrack@stlouisacademy.org
Phone: (260) 804-3608