Welcome to our Pre-K! It is my pleasure to work with your children this year. I hope this will be the beginning of an amazing experience for your child. The curriculum in Pre-K provides a variety of preparatory activities that enable children to gain the readiness skills and tools they will need for future school success. Children gain independence, develop muscle coordination, and care for themselves. They learn to problem solve, socialize and love, and be loved as members of God's family. They will be introduced to religion, science and health, English language arts, social studies, mathematics, arts and crafts, and music.                                     
Morning Prayer:
God made the birds, God made the bees.
God made the sun, God made the trees.
Look all around you and you will see...
That God made you and God made me.
Thank you God, for all that you have made.  Amen.

Meal Prayer:
Thank you for the world so sweet,
Thank you for the food we eat.
Thank you for the birds that sing,
Thank you God for everything!

JUNE - What we are working on...
Review of letters in the alphabet (recognition and writing upper and lower case, beginning sounds, color words, review of numbers 0 to 29, especially 0 through 9 (phone number BINGO). Songs, fingerplays and nursery rhymes include My Dog Rags, The Butterfly Song, Five Little Seeds, 7 Little Flowers . Exploring favorite literature includes "How to Catch a Star", "How Will We Get to the Beach", "A House for Hermit Crab"and "Dream You'll Be". We are practicing "Hail Mary" and the Sign of the Cross. We are also looking for signs of the next season - summer, talking about summer safety, and the many creatures that inhabit the ocean, lakes and ponds.  Our green bean and sunflower seeds have sprung and grow steadily! (I will email photos of the first green bean and sunflower!) We've had lots of sorting activities - small/medium/large, shorter/taller, etc.  We are getting ready for the big day - gradution - and are very excited to begin kindergarten in September.

Important Dates/notes:
Monday, June 14 - last full day of school
Wednesday, June 16 - 11:30 a.m. - students arrive at usual entrance, will walk with other Pre-K classes to ceremony at church which begins at 12:00p.m.
Sunday, June 20 - Father's Day
Monday - June 21 - first day of summer