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 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 Music or Library.
Please check the Saint Helena School website for continued updates to the calendar.
Week of December 1, 2019
Welcome to our third theme: Our Community
In this unit, the children will learn about the role of the community in their lives and the importance of good citizenship.
Objectives for this week: Going Green
Big Idea: I can make a difference.
Social-Emotional: Responsibility
Alphabet Recognition: Jj
Theme Words: Earth, environment, protect, recycle, reduce, reuse, trash
Sign Language: stop, listen, focus
Math Words: first, second, third, fourth, fifth
Science Words: environment, plastic
Story Words: junk, lunchbox, patches, spied, splashing, stream, sulked, yard
Our letter of the week is: Jj
Our Personality of the Week is: Ella Clark
Our Family of the Week is: The Rodemer Family
Clue & Tell this week: Logan & Robert
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 “Jj.” They can also cut out pictures that begin with the letter “Jj” 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 “Jj.” In Math this week the children will sort and count recycled items. In Science this week the children will sort recyclables into groups of paper, plastic and cans. Religion this week we will learn about Advent.
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!!
Monday is library, Music is on Wednesday, Wednesday or Friday is gym,
Books we will read this week: Jaguar’s Jungleberry Jamboree, The Cleanup Surprise, Big Earth Little Me, Stuff!, The Earth Book, Take Care, Recycling Day, Green is a Chile Pepper
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns at: ssmith@sainthelenaschool.org.
Our Home Room Parents are: Lisa Traver (lisa.traver@ppdi.com) and Collenn Mallozzi (colleenmallozzi@gmail.com)
Calendar Dates To Remember:
November 27: 11:30am Dismissal – Thanksgiving Break NO CARES today!!!
December 2: SHS Classes Resume
December 4: Photo Re-Take Day 9:00am
December 6: Santa Shop…We will need parent volunteers to assist the children shop & 11:30am Dismissal(Faculty Meeting)
December 11: Pre-K performs in SHS Christmas Show at 7:00pm (dress in Christmas colors)
December 18: Pre-K Field Trip to see the Wizard of Oz
December 20: 10:30am Pre-K 4S Christmas Party in the classroom. 11:30am Dismissal for Christmas Break
January 2: SHS Classes resume
Class List:
Kaitlyn Canuso
Avery Clark
Ella Clark
Maddie Clark
Logan Hammar
Robert Hunt
Ava Iacovelli
Madison Mallozzi
Nolan Moore
Addy Organsky
Emma Pilo
Billy Pironti
Ella Rodemer
Thomas Rogers
William Traver
Joseph Zazworskey
Vincent Zepp