Welcome to Pre- 4S
Welcome to St. Helena Preschool. We look forward to working with you and your children this year!
If there is a Two Hour Delay then drop off for Pre-K students is 10:00am. There will not be a formal Car Line. Please just park your car, walk your child to the door and ring the bell.
“Tiger Time” begins at 8:00am. This is the earliest that you can drop your child off at Pre-K classroom. The cost is $7.00 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.
Please check the Saint Helena School website for continued updates to the calendar.
Mr. Smith’s email: ssmith@sainthelenaschool.org
Mrs. Dare’s email: bdare@sainthelenaschool.org
Homeroom Parent: Mrs. Meg Whelan (megwhelan@yahoo.com)
Week of January 17, 2021
Welcome to our fourth theme: Awesome Animals!
In this unit, the children will learn about life science through exploration of animals and life cycles.
Objective for this week: Creepy, Crawly Insects
Big Idea: I am very curious about bugs.
Social-Emotional: Attention
Alphabet Recognition: Nn
Theme Words: bug, crawl, insect, pinch, stinger, stings, swarm, wings
Sign Language: I love you, focus, listen, stop
Math Words: column, grid, row
Science Words: collect, need
Story Words: carry, creeping, flutter, fuzzy, gnaw, hunt, meadow, mossy, survive
Our letter of the week is: Nn
Our Personality of the Week is: Ryan Whelan
Our Family of the Week is: The Guckerts
Clue & Tell this week: Sophia & Lila
In your child’s folder is their ABC Journal. If you have time during the week, your child can practice writing the letter of the week “Nn.” They can also cut out pictures that begin with the letter “Nn” and glue them into the journal. 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 continue to 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 “*Nn*”
In Math this week the children will olay a game to review shapes.
In Science this week the children will learn about bugs.
Religion this week we talk about the Bible. (Lesson #16)
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: The Nicest Newt, What Do Insects Do?, BUGS!, Butterfly, Ladybugs, Over in the Meadow, Best Book of Bugs
Calendar Dates To Remember:
Monday January 4: SHS resumes classes
Friday January 15: 11:30am Dismissal for Faculty Meeting
Monday January 18: SHS Closed to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Class List:
Emma Burton
Sophia Capparella
Anthony D’Orazio
Kellan Ford
Blake Graybehl
Charlotte Guckert
Faith Humay
Shayla Kennedy
Bentley Kim
Lila Kopitsky
Greyson Mattes
Sloane McPhilemy
Olivia Moser
Chase Olivetti
Ryan Whelan
Warren Whitman