Sandy HighScope Preschool Newsletter
September 4th -7th
Welcome back to preschool! On the first day of each week there will be a newsletter for each family.
Please read the newsletters to obtain information about what we are learning and if there are important
dates to save on the calendar.
Please Note:
 Tuition and registration is due the first week of each month. Mon/Tues class tuition is $100 and
Wednesday/Thursday/Friday class is $145. Registration is $60. Payments can be made to LWF or
Sandy HighScope. Please give payment to Julie in the office, or Sandy if Julie is not in. Thank you!
 Some families need to complete updated forms. If you receive one, please fill it out and return it
to Sandy or Julie in the office.
 We will be scheduling a back to school night. I will send home a separate paper with the date,
time, and anything you need to know prior to that evening.
Goals for the Week
The first week of school the children is a time to learn the schedule and routines, rules for each part of
the schedule, meet new and familiar friends, and explore the room. It is also a time for me and teacher
Rita to get to know your children! Although we start with the letter Aa this week, and include other preacademic skills, our primary focus is on getting each child comfortable with preschool. Since the two day
a week class only meets one time, we will carry over the same goals to next week. The three day a week
class will also begin these goals this week and carry most over to the following week.
Phonemic Awareness: We will learn what the signal “use your listening ears” means. We will practice
this with listening and identifying words that start with the “a” (short a sound, like apple). We will also
start our nursery rhyme with Humpty Dumpty. This will be our nursery rhyme for 2 weeks.
Alphabetic Principle: The children will be introduced to the zoo-phonics animal letters. We are starting
with letter “a”, Allie Alligator. We will also go through letters Aa-Cc this week during our meeting time.
We will also identify our names and the letters in our name during meeting time and a small group
activity.
Comprehension: Children will answer questions about our story of the week and our reader of the week.
Concepts about print: We will talk about talk about the cover of a book and the title. We will make a
book that will include what we did on our first day of school.
Vocabulary: We will pull words out of our book of the week and go over the meaning and use it in a
variety of ways to connect the word to real life experiences. We will also start to focus on art vocabulary
words. This week, and for the next couple of weeks, we will learn what primary colors are. We will make
a school out of shapes that are all primary colors.
Book of the week: The Kissing Hand This book is a sweet book that discusses an animal that is afraid of
leaving his mom to go to school. Some children will have some apprehensions about going to school,
and once we read the book, kiss their hand when you leave and they can do the same comforting thing
that the character in the story does…put their hand on their cheek, so your kiss is always there
Reader of the Week: Carlos Goes to School
Color of the week: Red
Shape of the week: Circle
Number of the week: 1
Other math goals: We will make a graph about how we got to school (bus, walk, car). This will
incorporate identifying numbers, counting, following directions, and interpreting a simple bar graph.
If your child knows their numbers, colors and shapes, we will adjust activities to still challenge them.
Thank you so much for giving us the privilege of teaching your child about friendships, caring, learning,
and having fun while we learn. If you ever have any questions, please email or call me. I will return
phone calls in the evening after the Kindergartners leave. If it is something that is more urgent, please
wait for all families to pick up their child and I can chat for a few minutes. Please remember the teachers
only have 30 minutes in between preschool and Kindergarten, so if it something that can be answered
via email or phone please use that form of communication first. Thank you for understanding! We are
going to have a great year and I look forward to all of the milestones met and the fun that we will have.