Week 2--Preschool Angels

JMJ

Well, this week was MUCH better than last week.  I felt terrible about leaving my binder with ALL the printouts for the day at home, but Jodi was an amazing teacher while I was gone retrieving it.  

They found their name mats and worked on matching colors.  They all have a different colored star on their name cards, mats, and on the board, so they can match the color if they are having trouble identifying their name.  It is a young class, so name recognition may take a while.  :)  They went over the letter B, coloring some in their letter books and going through the B grab bag.  You can talk to your child about bags, bunnies, bandannas, bowls, buttons, beads, and bucking broncos.  Can you think of anything else around your house that starts with the letter B?

We sang a little color song about the color BLUE because it starts with B.  We went around to see who in class was wearing blue, and then found objects around the room that were "wearing" blue.  It was fun and the kids did an amazing job of identifying many different blue things.  

We talked about St. Helen and how she found the true cross.  We decorated silver crosses and talked a little bit about how special a cross is.  We also built a cross out of waffle blocks.  None of them wanted to color in class, but I sent a coloring page of St. Helen home with them.  

We joined the K class for music and went over the first verse of Mother Mary, Meek and Mild.  I don't know if any of them will be singing it at home, but we went over it many times and several of them seemed to catch on.  

There should be a coloring page with two saints on it St. Anne for A and St. Bernadette for B.  If you cut the large rectangle around the saint, then you can fold it around and staple it so it will stand up, like this:  http://www.catholicicing.com/abc-saints/

We will be doing one or two of these per week and these guys don't seem to be big on coloring in class, so it will most likely go home with you untouched.  If you are able to do cut it out and stand it up, I think the little ones might be more interested in them.  

You should have also taken home a book for #1 and #2.  We did not have time to work on these in class, but they are yours to utilize this week.  We will hopefully be going over #3 next week.  

Thank you all for your patience as we work the kinks out of the schedule and curriculum.  I had a great time today and I hope your preschooler did, too!