Our weekly themes during the month of April will be:
Spring
Earth Day
Plants and Flowers

Looking Back (Week of March 29) 
Pre-K students had a short but wonderful week together preparing for the most holy day of Easter.  We read more about God's love for us and the gift of His son, Jesus.  We also enjoyed a story about God's creation and everyone shared examples of things created by God.  We had fun in the art center dyeing eggs using vinegar and baking soda for a fizzy and colorful introduction to chemical reactions.  We also created our own paper baskets and we created pastel colors with our paint.  On Wednesday, we completed a religion lesson about Easter and everyone decorated their own Easter cards.

We paused our letter study to review all of the letters we know and their sounds.  We completed two letter sound matching activities and we played a rhyming word matching game at circle time.  In the literacy center, we matched our letter puzzle cards and we practiced writing letters using our dry erase writing books.  In math, we worked on an Easter egg pattern activity and a jelly bean color graph.  

Looking Ahead (Week of April 12)
 School is now closed for the Easter Recess.  We wish everyone a joyous Easter Sunday and a blessed start to the Easter season.  When we return to school, we will focus on a theme of "Spring" by observing changes in the weather and signs of new life all around us.  We will continue to care for our plants by providing water and sunlight while reading about the things that come with the change in season.  We will work on a hatching chick craft and a hyacinth fingerprint project in the art center before completing a Scholastic magazine about baby animals in the spring.  We will also work together to create our own book about the season of spring.

Our wonderful letter of the week will be Ww and we will enjoy a poem about a wagon before completing a wagon craft.  We will practice tracing and writing letter Ww after finding many Ww words on our alphabet chart and adding some to our word wall.  We will add a Ww page to our alphabet notebooks and color pictures of words that begin with Ww.  In math, we will practice using the counting strategies we have learned with a variety of objects.  We will build sets of nine using manipulatives and then practice writing 9 on paper after learning a poem about the number nine.  
 
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*Our class prays daily, including the "Our Father" and the "Hail Mary."  
Before lunch, we pray:
Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts,
which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, 
through Christ, our Lord.  Amen. 

After lunch, we pray:
We give Thee thanks for all Thy benefits,
O Lord, who livest and reignest world without end.  Amen 

Before snack, we pray
Thank You for the food we eat; thank You for the friends we meet.  
Thank You for our work and play; thank You for this happy day.  Amen.

Additional Home Activities
You may be looking for ideas for activities that you can do with your child at home over the weekend.  Please remember to read together every day.  Here are some other activities you can do at home together at any time:

Puzzles
Building
Free Art
Drawing
Water play
Play dough
Watercolor painting
Cooking and baking