Paetow, Mrs. P. J. (Pre-K)
Welcome to St. Michael's Preschool!
We Are All God's Children, Chosen and Loved!
Registration for the 2010/2011 school year is currently underway.
HAPPY SPRING!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
VIP DATES
- Thursday, April 29...PreK-3.....VIP day at 10:00 a.m.
PreK-pm...VIP day at 1:00 p.m.
- Friday, April 30... PreK-4......VIP day at 10:00 a.m.
WORLD LANGUAGE PRESENTATION DATES
All world language presentations will be held in the church
- Monday, May 17 PreK-4.....9:00 a.m.
- Wednesday, May 19 PreK-pm...12:30 p.m.
- Thursday, May 20 PreK-3.....9:00 a.m.
END OF THE YEAR CELEBRATIONS
- Tuesday, May 25 PreK-3....10:00 a.m.
- Wednesday, May 26 PreK-4....10:00 a.m.
- Wednesday, May 26 PreK-pm....1:00 p.m.
Welcome to the preschool spring fling!
As we welcome Sring 2010, the St. Michael Preschool children will be busy exploring the themes of transportation, weather, plants and animals. Below you will get a taste of some of the activities in which the children will be engaged.
Religion
The preschool children are learning that God is the creator of all things. The children explore a saint each month and learn what special plan God had for them. Our April saint is St. Martin, and we will honor Mary the mother of God during May. Each week the preschool children listen to and discuss a children's bible version of the upcoming Gospel story and work on an accompanying activity from our religion series, "Seeds." Our daily prayer reflects our belief that God is loving, caring and watching over us.
Art
The preschool children use many media and materials to express what they see, interpret, and think about our world. Some of the planned art projects for the Spring season are:
- Umbrellas, rain, sun and rainbows
- Trains, boats and airplanes
- Flowers, with roots, stems and petals
- Frogs, turtles, sheep just to name a few
Social Studies
During the months of April and May we are exploring different types of transportation used around the world to get to school. Using the book, "This is the Way We Go to School" the children will identify different locations around the U.S. and the world on maps and discuss reasons for different transportation methods.
Science
The students will graph weather by temperature, precipitation and determine what activities would be appropriate and how they should dress based on the weather conditions. The children will use their 5 senses to explore plants...the aroma of different flowers, the texture of the leaves and stems, the sound of different seeds, the sight of the plants and their respective parts, and the taste of the more edible varieties.
Math
The children will compare the size of stems and leaves from different varieties of plants. We will graph plant preferences. The students will be continue their numeral/number activites using cars, trucks trains and flying machines. Our graphing questions for the months of April and May are:
- What is your favorite type of weather?
- What form of transportation would you most like to use to get to school?
Animal sorting activities will include number of legs, habitat and
- Would you rather play in the mud or the sand?
- What is your favorite animal?
- How many legs does each animal have?
Reading Readiness
Each week the students focus on a letter of the week. The children compile a list of words that begin with the letter....we list those words and hang them up for the week...the children look in the classroom mailbox for items that begin with the letter of the week. The children work on an activity relating to that letter...some students use stickers to outline the shape of the letter, some trace the letter, others write the letter independently...an art activity is completed to compliment the letter awareness...ie for letter of the week U the students will make an umbrella project.
The letters of the week for the month of January are
- 4/19 Letter U
- 4/26 Letter V
The children will hang their paper mittens on the clothesline by attaching the mitten with the Uppercase letter to the clothespin with the lowercase letter
- 5/3 Letter W
- 5/10 Letter X
- 5/17 Letter Y
- 5/24 Letter Z
Large Motor/Music
In relation to our spring theme we are learning poems and songs that relate to spring,transportation and animals. The children will continue to use the gym one day a week and explore the outside whenever weather permits. We will also focus on the songs and fingerplays that will be performed at our end of the year celebrations.
