Miss Kim’s Preschool News
December 7-17, 2015
Theme for the Weeks: Nursery Rhymes
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.
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.
Library is on Wednesdays.
For letter writing it is VERY important that the children begin their letters at the top. When
they practice at home please help them remember.
Class books/literacy backpacks are being sent home to share one family at a time. Please make
sure to return it when you are finished with your family’s comment so our whole class will
have the opportunity to share it with their family. It helps if you keep all items in the ziplock
bags they are sent home in. This keeps them clean so all of the students can enjoy!
I have included a coloring book with the nursery rhymes we will be working on for this
unit.
International Baccalaureate:
How We Express Ourselves
An inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture,
beliefs, and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend, and enjoy our creativity; our
appreciation of the aesthetic.
Central Idea: Creativity inspires expression of ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs, and
values.
Attributes: Communicator, Reflective, Risk-taker
Attitudes: Appreciation, Creativity, Enthusiasm
Lines of inquiry:
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Ways we express ourselves
Ways to express our individual traditions
Sharing our ideas and beliefs with others
Vocabulary: flower, garden, candlestick, spider, spout, rain, sun, sheep, black, wool, hill, up, down,
fish, mittens, kittens, rhyme
Housekeeping Area: This area will be transformed into a pizza parlor
Week of 12/7-12/10 IB word of the week: enthusiasm
Sensory Table: tree decorating
Letter of the week: Ss
Parent helpers this week will work with the rhyming houses
Math Center: holiday matching
Craft-watering cans and flowers
Monday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/pick NEW jobs, discuss our day, choose a song from
song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area. See you later alligator…rhyme
Large Group/Language Activity: We will read The Night Before Preschool by Natasha
Wing. Our focus will be directionality of print. Left to right, top to bottom.
Vocabulary focus on time concept words first, next, then, last.
Small Group Activity: “pigs” sorting and patterning using different attributes
Tuesday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/jobs, discuss our day, choose a song from song chart,
review class rules, & choose a play area.
Large Group/Language Activity: Mary, Mary, quite contrary...We will get into 2 groups
and separate flowers into groups of same and different. We will also say flower names
and clap the syllables.
Small Group Activity: flowers sorting and patterning using different attributes
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: Baa, baa, black sheep..In pairs play a sheep game
involving counting wool bags. We will be using dice. When you play dice games at
home have them count the dots until they memorize the pattern for each number.
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: candlestick size sequencing
Week of 12/14-12/17 IB word of the week: connection
Sensory Table: tree decorating
Letter of the week: Jj
Parent helpers this week will play with the nursery rhyme sequencing puzzles
Math Center: holiday matching
Craft-fish puppet
Monday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/pick NEW jobs, discuss our day, choose a song from
song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area. Itsy Bitsy Spider… listening
activity. We will sequence story pictures.
Large Group/Language Activity: Sing a Song of Sixpence act this out with our pretend
pie crust!
Small Group Activity: ordering numbers
Tuesday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/review our jobs, discuss our day, choose a song from
song chart, review class rules, & choose a play area. Animal Rhyme
Large Group/Language Activity: One, two,…once I caught a fish alive.. We will use the
rhyme and the fish the children made to count up and down.
Small Group Activity: patterns
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: Jack and Jill. Will they fit? Activity involving spatial
awareness.
The afternoon class will go to the 4th grade music program at 1:15.
Thursday:
Circle Time: calendar/weather/review jobs, discuss our day, 3 Little Kittens
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: chalkboards