Pre-K: Week One – September 8-12, 2025

Dear Pre-K Families,

Our first week has flown by, and it has been an absolute pleasure watching the children bond with each other and learn their way around our classroom. We are SO impressed with this group! Collectively, they are curious, kind, compassionate, and adorable. We feel lucky to be their teachers.  We look forward to getting to know them (and you all), more as our school year unfolds.

This week, we worked on building our PK classroom community by discussing rules and expectations that will help to keep all children safe and happy on a daily basis.  As a class, the children generated their own “contract” that they “signed” with a handprint: Share, Listen, Help Each Other, Use Walking Feet, and Be Safe were all included. We are already off to a great beginning of creating a kind and caring classroom community!

Please see our ME WEEK sign up and let us know if you need to select a week for your child to have their special ‘Me week’!  Please note that this upcoming Thursday is “Bring your stuffed animal to school” day.  We will be having many friendship activities with our stuffed animals on this day at school!

Highlights this week:

  • Whole Class tour of the room exploring each activity center and discussing expectations in each one
  • Learning about our classroom jobs: each child will have a job each week
  • Our first Music this year with Miss Elaine!
  • Stamping our Names, counting our Letters
  • Learning about Smiley, our day-counting caterpillar
  • Building giant structures with our big blocks
  • Reading many books about friendship, sharing, and starting the school year
  • Learning our September song 
  • First Math Bag demonstration—we will begin to send the bag home next week
  • Friendship bracelets
  • Name tracing
  • Journal Writing
  • Matching upper and lowercase letters

Some of the books read this week as a group include:

  • Me First by Helen Lester and Lynn Munsinger
  • Will You be My Friend? by Peter Brown
  • Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev
  • No, David! by David Shannon
  • The Pout, Pout Fish by Debrah Diesen
  • Will I Have a Friend by Miriam Cohen
  • Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin
  • Danny the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff

Enjoy the weekend!

Miss Karen, Miss Dana and Miss Jan