October 9, 2025

Dear PreK Families, 

To coordinate with our All About Me Books, we are asking families to do a project at home. You will find a piece of construction paper and a glue stick in your child’s bag. Please make a collage about your child. You may include photos of your child and family members, and or pictures of your child’s favorite things. Images can be photographs, drawings, or cut out from magazines and glued onto the paper. We will laminate them and hang them up at school. Feel free to email me a few pictures that you’d like to put in the collage if you do not have a printer. 

We have started reviewing/learning the uppercase letters using the Fundations Literacy Program. We will review about 2 to 3 letters per week and should finish the introduction of the uppercase letter by the holiday break. Then we will learn how to write the uppercase letters. We learn the letters in the order of how they are written. Some letters have straight lines, some have curves, and some have a start and a jump to them.  

In Math, pumpkins and leaves provide many opportunities on counting, sorting, patterning, graphing, and measuring. Your child can bring in a small pumpkin to share with the class this month.

We have begun lessons from the Bridges PreK Math Program. Bridges is the same math program that is used by the other grades in our school. In the first unit during September, students have been focusing on sorting, counting, patterning, graphing, and comparing. We have made calendar markers, participated in counting games, and started exploring the math manipulatives we’ll be using this year. 

Parent Teacher Conferences are coming up in early November, on 11/2 and 11/3. There will be an early release day on Monday and no school on Tuesday. This is the sign-up schedule to meet and discuss your child’s progress during Parent Teacher Conference time. All of the early childhood PreK Programs in our district use a program called Teaching Strategies Gold to rate individual student development and progress.  In the meeting we will review initial TS Gold social-emotional progress reports for your child as well as, initial math and letter assessments. 

At our school, the students do not wear costumes on Halloween. The teachers will have a special snack that day for the class.

Thank you, 

Amy 

IMPORTANT DATES

10/12 NO SCHOOL - Indigenous People’s Day 

10/19 No PreK - ECP In-Service

11/2 Early Release- pick up at 12:30- PTC

11/3 NO SCHOOL - PTC

11/11 No SCHOOL Veteran's Day 

11/13 Picture Retake Day 

11/25 - 11/27 NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving Break