Northview Elementary School Pre-K Newsletter Dec.12 - Dec.22, 2016
Reminders/Announcements
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Please be sure to place all money sent to
school in an envelope marked with your
child’s name, the amount of the money
you are sending, and the purpose for the
funds.
Please check your child’s backpack and
folder daily for important information
and their Daily Commitment Chart.
Please make sure your child has an extra
set of clothes (shirt, pants, socks, and
underwear). Please make sure that your
child’s name is labeled inside all their
clothes. The weather is getting colder, so
please update your child’s extra clothes
replacing them with warmer clothing.
Thank you to all of the parents that were
able to come to Parent-Teacher
Conferences. If you were not able to make
it, I completely understand and you can
contact us to set up a meeting or a phone
conference at your convenience.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Friday, Dec. 23rd - Monday, Jan.
2nd schools are closed for Winter
Break
Theme 4: Choices
★ The first week focuses on choices they make
on their own.
★ The second week focuses on making healthy
choices
★ The third week focuses on developing
healthy habits
★ The fourth week focuses on problem solving
Suggestions to do at HOME
❖ Practice identifying the letters of their
names
❖ Have your child draw illustrations and ask if
they will dictate words and sentences to
accompany them
❖ Have your child identify, find objects, and
draw pictures of things that have the
following shapes: circle, oval, square,
rectangle, triangle, and rhombus (diamond)
❖ Practice the Disengage the Stress Response
Strategies we have learned (S. T. A. R. , The
Balloon, The Drain, and The Pretzel, The
Eye Rest, Bunny Breathing)
❖ Encourage your child to write his/her first
name, capitalizing the first letter in the name
and writing the remaining letters in
lowercase
❖ Help your child use the correct pencil grip
❖ Read to your child every night
❖ Identify the author and the illustrator when
reading books to your child and the role of
each
❖ Ask your child questions after reading a book
(who, what, when, where, why, and how)
❖ Have your child answer questions you ask in
complete sentences
❖ Discuss with your child their commitment
each day and have them give you an example
of how they kept it. Our recent commitment
is “I commit to making thoughtful choices.”
(thinking carefully before making a choice)
❖ Discuss examples of choices your child can
make that would be fair for everyone
involved
❖ Discuss the word confident and give them
examples of times you felt confident
❖ Have them tell you about a time that they
felt confident
Reading/Language Arts
Oral Language:
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Increase vocabulary
Comprehension:
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Tell how the illustrations support the story
Retell a story sequencing the events after it is
read aloud
Use a combination of drawing and
developmentally appropriate writing to state
information on a topic
Identify the characters in a story
Identify the setting of a story
Identify 2 words that begin with the same sound
Identify 2 words that do not begin with the same
sound
Recognize that words are made up of letters and
their sounds
Phonics:
Recognize & name D, d, M, m, S, s, F, f, N, n, B, b, P, p, R, r, V,
v, J, j, L, l, and K, k
-Identify the sound each letter makes
-Identify words that begin with each letter sound
Language:
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Recognize that their first name begins with a
capital letter
Use letter-like shapes, symbols, letters, and words
to convey meaning
Math:
-Identify numerals 0-10
-Recognize the number of objects in a set without counting
(subitizing) using 1-6 objects
-Sort manipulatives and identify The Sorting Rule **They
should only choose 1 Sorting Rule at a time (sort by: size .
color, or shape)
-When counting objects 1-10, say the number names in
standard order, pairing each object with only one number
name
Thank you for all of your hard work and
support!!!
If you have any questions, please contact me
[email protected]