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. You can use this on an “as needed” basis. No need to sign up ahead of time.
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:
TBD…….
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 September 8, 2024
.Welcome to our first theme: Ready For School
In this unit, the children will learn the expectations, routines and behaviors of school.
Objective for this week: My School
Big Idea: I am getting to know my school.
Social-Emotional: cooperation
Alphabet Recognition:
Theme Words: class, name, school, teacher
Sign Language: I Love You
Math Words: next, pattern, repeat
Science Words: clean, germs
Story Words: favorite, gently, grinned, letters, promise, secret, terrific, write
Our letter of the week is:
Clue & Tell this Week:
Our Personality of the Week is:
Our Family of the Week is:
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 –
In Math this week the children will make AB patterns.
In Science this week the children will examine objects from nature with magnifying glasses..
In Religion this week we will ……….
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 Kissing Hand, My New School, Annie-Bea-and Chi Chi Dolores, Please Play Safe Penguin
Calendar Dates To Remember:
Monday September 9: Pre-K 4S Orientation
Tuesday September 10: First day of Pre-K 4S!!!!!!
Monday September 16: Back To School Night
Thursday September 19: Picture Day
Friday October 4: SHS Walk-A-Thon. 11:30am Dismissal for Faculty Meeting
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