Miss Kim’s Preschool News
Dates: May 2-12, 2016
Theme: Beach/Under the Sea
Notes for the Week:
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Please call me at Hilliard School 899-3075 ext. 2162 or email at mccue@wlake.org if
you ever have a need to contact me.
Please be sure to call the Hilliard attendance line each day that your child will
not be in school. The attendance line is available 24 hours a day. Call 835-6345.
The office must confirm each child’s absence for every day that they are not in
school.
Communication binders will be coming home daily. It really helps when you fill
them out.
Use the newsletter to expand on our school day by asking what your child did. When
they say I don’t remember you can use the information in the newsletter to guide
answers.
Newsletters and other information are always available on my website which you
reach from Westlake’s home page wlake.org.
Reminder: Library is on Wednesdays.
The only way for the students to become proficient with crayons and scissors is to
practice at home too.
Announcements: We need toilet paper rolls to make binoculars with. Please send in
empty ones. Hilliard Elementary Art Show evening of May 4th. Information is on
Hilliard’s website and was sent home. Last Day celebration and Ice Cream Social is
June 2!
How the World Works
Central Idea: Environmental relationships change over time.
Attributes: Inquirer, Principled, Thinker
Attitudes: Appreciation, Curiosity, Independence
Lines of Inquiry
 Changes in nature
 How people respond to changes
 People’s responsibilities for the environment
Vocabulary: ocean, beach, wave, sun, sand, palm tree, shell, squid, shark, eel, turtle,
lobster, jellyfish, dolphin, octopus, fish, shrimp, crab, swordfish, whale, coral, seaweed,
sunglasses, towel, sunscreen, umbrella, hat, ball
Activities for these Weeks:
Week of 5/2-5/5 IB word of the week: principled
Sensory Table: sand exploration
Numbers of the week: 5 & 6
Math Center: ocean counting
Craft: octopus coloring matching
Art Center: color ice cream cone, punch holes, and add string for lacing activity
Parent Helper: ocean counting sheet
Monday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/choose new jobs, discuss our day, choose a
song from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area. We will learn a
5 shells rhyme.
Large Group/Language Activity: Read There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed
a Shell. Sort shells by attributes.
Small Group Activity: goldfish counting and comparing
Tuesday:
Pawsitive Tuesday! Wear your Big 3 shirt or green or white.
Miss Rebecca will be here from Porter library.
Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day, choose a song
from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area.
Large Group/Language Activity: Rise Activity; Read In the Small Small Pond by
Denise Fleming. We will review sight words and use new vocabulary to retell
story.
Small Group Activity: patterning with ocean animals
Wednesday: Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day, choose a song
from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area.
Large Group/Language Activity: Read Wave by Suzy Lee. This is a wordless
book. We will write our story to go with the pictures. Match upper and lower
case letters. All will sort and match sea shells.
Small Group Activity: ocean animal matching
Thursday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day,
choose a song from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area.
Large Group/Language Activity: Miss Karen’s Language Lesson
Small Group Activity: beginning sound match
Week of 5/9-5/12 IB word of the week: independence
Sensory Table: sand exploration
Numbers of the week: 7 & 8
Math Center: ocean counting
Craft: paper plate turtle
Parent Helper: extra craft activity
Monday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day, choose a song
from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area. Dive beneath the
ocean
Large Group/Language Activity: Read What If? by Laura Seeger. Beach
Bucket Rhyming
Small Group Activity: ocean memory
Tuesday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day, choose a song
from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area.
Large Group/Language Activity: Rise Activity: Read Five Little Monkeys by
Eileen Christelow. We will produce words that begin with a specific letter sound.
We will write a class story Buster Learns a New Trick.
Small Group Activity: 1 to 1 counting
Wednesday: Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day, choose a song
from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area.
Large Group/Language Activity: Read I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by
Kevin Sherry. Concepts taught will be big, bigger, biggest, and small, smaller,
and smallest. A squid will come home to practice this skill.
Small Group Activity: beginning sound match
Thursday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day,
choose a song from song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area.
Graph our favorite Sea creature
Large Group/Language Activity: Miss Karen’s Language Lesson
Small Group Activity: rhyming mats