Welcome to Pre-K 4S
Welcome to St. Helena Preschool. We look forward to working with your children this year!
***If there is a Two Hour Delay then drop off for Pre-K students is 9:45am. ***
“Tiger Time“ begins at 8:00am. This is the earliest that you can drop your child off at the Pre-K classroom. The cost is $8.00 per day. There is no charge if the child will be attending CARES or Early Birds that day.
Weather permitting, we will go outside every day! Please dress your child according to the day’s weather. Even if it is raining we may have to walk over to the “Big School” for an activity such as Library, Gym or Music.
Please also check the Saint Helena School website for continued updates to the calendar.
Teachers:
Lead: Mr. Smith email: ssmith@sainthelenaschool.org
Aide: Mrs. Dare email: bdare@sainthelenaschool.org
Homeroom Parents:
Mrs. Crawford – rcrawford0322@gmail.com
Mrs. Lonergan – lalonergan08@gmail.com
HOT LUNCH PROGRAM:
Please send lunch money into school inside an envelope with your family name on it and place it in your child’s classroom folder.
DO NOT put it in your child’s backpack. We do not check the backpacks for lunch money.
Monday – Hoagie $5.00 / Cheesesteak $5.50
Tuesday – Chicken Sandwich $5.25
Wednesday – Cheeseburger $7.00
Thursday – Chicken Nuggets $5.25
Friday – Pizza $2.50
Week of May 5, 2024
.Welcome to our eighth (and final) theme: Moving On
In this unit, the children will reflect on all the ways they have grown and changed during the year.
Objective for this week: Going New Places
Big Idea: I am ready to go to new places.
Social-Emotional: persistence
Alphabet Recognition: Letter Review
Theme Words: travel, trip, visit
Sign Language: I Love You, focus
Math Words: behind, left, position, right
Science Words: environment, iceberg
Story Words: canyons, mane, marshes, peace, prairies, shaggy, slam, world
Our letter of the week is: Review
Our Personality of the Week is: Emma Staniszewski
Our Family of the Week is: The Laurinaitis Family
Clue & Tell this week:
In your child’s folder is their ABC Journal. If you have time during the week, you can help your child practice writing the letter of the week ** of words that begin with the letter of the week.
You can send the journal back to school in their folder. The children will then share their work with their classmates.
The children will learn to write their first name on their papers. We will discuss the rules of the classroom and how to treat each other and learn about good manners. We learn how to bless ourselves and say the Our Father, the Hail Mary and Grace Before Meals. We will also learn the Pledge of Allegiance, Star Spangled Banner and Grand Old Flag. We will discuss the days of the week and the months of the year. We will discuss the weather and learn what a thermometer is and what causes the mercury to move up and down the thermometer!
In centers this week we will practice writing the letter – Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd
In Math this week the children will use position words.
In Science this week the children will examine objects from nature with magnifying glasses..
In Religion this week we will learn about Mary’s month of May.
Our sight word reader is:
Our sight words to date are:
To assist your children, you could create flash cards with our sight words on them for home.
They will come home with a copy of the Sight Word Reader on Fridays. Please have your child read this book to you. They can use these books to build their own library of Sight Word Readers!!
Books we will read this week: In Our Country, Grace Goes to Washington, Can You Say Peace?, We’re Going On a Lion Hunt
Calendar Dates To Remember:
Friday May 3: 11:30am Dismissal for Faculty Meeting
Tuesday May 7th: Class Group Photos (Tipping envelopes came home in classroom folder)
Thursday May 9th: SHS Closed Ascension Thursday
Friday May 10th: SHS Closed
Friday May 17th: May Fair!!!!! School carnival in the morning
Monday May 27th: SHS Closed Memorial Day
Tuesday June 4th: Pre-K Garden Party – Stay tuned for more info
Thursday June 6th: Pre-K Closing Ceremony at 9:30am
Class List – 19 students
Annabelle Baker
Gabriella Bocchino
Isla Cabrey
Rylee Carfi
Ryan Crawford
Madeline Donahue
Charles Duffy
Alessia Filippone
Mila Grewal
Brennan Incitti
Connor Laurinaitis
Tristan Lonergan
Gianna Marchese
Whitney Reichert
Emelia Rost
Vienna Sclafani
Joey Shacklett
Emma Staniszewski
Christopher Whitney