St. Louis Preschool Newsletter

We are off to a great start! Each time the children come to school it is amazing to see how they learn, grow and gain confidence. You should be proud of them! I will be sending one newsletter, monthly, for both Tues./Thurs. and M/W/F classes so please pay attention to dates regarding activities. It's nice to see what all the classes are doing.

During the first few weeks of school we will decorate our birthday crowns, make a self portrait, and talk about our favorite things. We also talk about our families and look at the pictures you sent. We want them to know they are important to God, their family and to us.

PreK parents don't be disappointed if you aren't seeing tons of work coming home. We do a lot of work and put it in our binders for safe keeping. You will see the binders later in the year and you will be amazed!

PreK classes will meet their fourth grade buddies in September and we will continue our friendship throughout the year. This is an awesome program to help the kids make connections.

Tues./Thurs. children will spend time with different jr. high classes who will read stories and engage them with story line recollection and basic comprehension. It is a win win for both groups.

8/17 and 8/18 Field Trip to visit cafeteria, art mural, and the big school playground.

9/1 Seventh grade Reading Buddies visit

9/7 and 9/8 School Pictures

9/9 Applefest with kindergarten

9/12 and 9/13 Mr. Moeller read to class

9/18 St. Louis Church Festival

9/22 and 9/23 Field Trip to Art room

9/27 St. Louis Night at Classic Pizza (Part of the sales for the evening go to St. Louis School)

9/26-9/30 Speech evaluations for PreK

Our number one goal with our religion classes is to teach that Jesus will always be our best friend and God is love. If you ask your children later on in the year who my best friend is...I'm pretty sure they will either say themselves or Jesus!

We will do our fair share of religious themed crafts, but practicing love, kindness and peace through our actions and expectations are where the real lessons lie.

During the week of 9/26, Natalie Scheibler will do a speech/language evaluation on the PreK children. We will be sending home detailed information regarding the results in October. We are always excited and proud that we offer this service. Natalie Scheibler graduated with an undergraduate degree from Purdue University in Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, as well as a Master's Degree from the University of Cincinnati in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

We will introduce the alphabet using a program called Zoophonics. Each letter is assigned an animal, a signal, and a sound. We emphasize learning the lowercase lettters since 90% of what we read and write is lowercase letters. We work the alphabet from Aa-Zz, spot lighting each letter for a week (expect Aa which gets two weeks.)We will be sending home an alphabet grid. We encourage you to display it on the fridge and use a highlighter to color each letter as we complete that week.

The letter Aa takes two weeks to complete. This is the only letter we do for two weeks because there are so many fun things to do! We will have an apple tasting with red, green, and yellow apples. PreK children will pluck out and count apple seeds to put into their own apple seed packet. Our art projects involve all things alligator. PreK and kindergarten will get together for Applefest. We will have a fun day of apple themed games, make homemade applesauce, and create delicious pretend apple pies.Oh yeah, and you might get this song stuck in your head!

Bubb b Bear is a charming character that loves honey! That is how he got his Big, Brown, Belly!! For snack this week we will have buttered bread and bananas. We will keep with the letter Bb theme through religion. The Tues/Thurs children will learn the song, “His Banner Over Me is Love.” and the PreK children will learn about Baptism. We will be making bubbles in the M/W/F class for what we like to call “Science Friday.” (Don’t tell NPR I stole the name!!)

We talk about Catina c Cat and how important it is that she keeps her face clean...just like us when we eat. We talk a lot about manners of all kinds at our school. For this week our activities include cutting coupons and tracing the word coupon. The Tues/Thurs class will make an adorable cat art project. Carrots with ranch dip and Cheerios will be on the snack menu.

Doughnuts are a really big deal during Dd week! We will actually make them for snack. (Keep it under your hats...we like to surprise the kids!) We will get out the dinosaur play set. In religion we will talk about Daniel and the Lions Den and David and Goliath.