Pre-K: November 17-21 2025

November 17-21, 2025

Dear Pre-K Families,

It seems hard to believe, but on Thursday we celebrated our 50th day in school! The children are now comfortable with our daily routines and always seem excited to walk into the room each day. We feel so grateful to be able to spend our days with our wonderful PreK bunch this year!

This week, we focused on kindness and being thankful as we head into Thanksgiving Week. We revisited the reasons for having kindness buckets (and receiving stones to recognize acts of kindness to friends and teachers). We have been sincerely telling the children how thankful we are to have them in class this year–they truly are a uniquely wonderful bunch of bucket-fillers!

This week, we also learned about the lifecycle of a turkey (egg, chick, poult (adolescent), and adult turkey. Can your child name all four? 

In Art this week, the children painted kindness stones and then chose some kind words to print on them. (they are waterproof and can live inside or outside)!  The  children also cut out giant (turkey) feathers and decorated them by cutting fringe and adding something that they are thankful for on them. Another project was making a Turkey Farm, using hand-traced turkeys, oil crayons and watercolors, and then decorating with feathers and fencing-very cute! 

Other highlights this week:

  • Jackson’s ME Week!  How fun it was to learn more about Jackson and thanks to his mom and dad for coming in to read us a story.
  • Mass Audubon’s (Susannah) came in with her (Northern Screech) OWL (Roosevelt) and told us all about him. The children (and teachers) were spellbound!
  • On the Skills Table this week: Journal writing, Turkey math number match project, and an alphabet search game with (turkey) uppercase letters
  • Music with Miss Elaine
  • Excellent Math Bags! 
  • Many giant block structures collaboratively built on the rug
  • Thanksgiving gatherings in dramatic play!
  • Learning our two turkey songs, “I’m Glad I’m not a Turkey”, and “My “Albuquerque Turkey”–the songs are posted on our website if you’d like to sing along!
  • Baking project:  Today we made banana bread right during our circle time and baked it so that it was nice and warm for our morning snack time. The room smelled good, too!

Books read this week include:

DW the picky eater

The Spiffiest Giant in Town, by J. Donaldson

Stone Soup

Setting the Turkeys Free!

(…more Thanksgiving books next week)!

Happy Weekend to all,

Miss Jan, Miss Dana, and Miss Karen