Pre-K: Thanksgiving! November 24, 25 & 26, 2025
November 24, 25, 26, 2025
Dear Pre-K Parents:
There has been so much excitement this week in Pre-K as we approach the Thanksgiving break. We missed a few friends who started their travels early, but we had enough in attendance to enjoy our few days together.
Miss Melanie came in on Monday and read us the first Thanksgiving story. We acted the story out and made story bracelets to help us retell the story ourselves. We made turkeys on Monday and Tuesday and decorated our classroom and feast table with them as part of our celebration. We also made Thanksgiving cards for loved ones where we practiced writing ‘Happy Thanksgiving.’
Our Thanksgiving Turkey looked great this week in our classroom with all of the things we are thankful for…ranging from our friends and family to our teachers and pets. As we continued to discuss kindness this week as well, we enjoyed the hearts parents sent in sharing how the children are kind at home too! We shared these with the class and had them on display this week. We celebrated all of this kindness!
We enjoyed Be Ahead of the Game on Tuesday where we worked on catching, throwing and rolling skills as well as following multi-step directions. We also reviewed our alphabet letters and sounds by playing several games and tracing our letters at the skills table and on our new doodle boards.
Our Feast was wonderful on Wednesday! Thank you parents for your help to make it possible. The food was great and the children enjoyed the time together.
We continued to work with play dough this week, enhancing our fine motor muscles to cross over to strengthen us for pencil grips in handwriting. In Dramatic Play we made our own Thanksgiving Feast and we also enjoyed practicing our names and journal writing (expressing our thankfulness).
We look forward to turning our focus to the upcoming December holidays when we return from the Thanksgiving break. We have started practicing our songs for our Holiday Performance in the coming weeks, the children are learning them quickly!
We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
Warm regards,
Miss Jan, Karen and Dana