We had an awesome month of October! We learned all about some of our letters of the alphabet. We learned about Cc, Dd, and Ee. We learned how to find the letters in a sentence, what noise they make, and how to write them. We also spent October learning about the fall season. We learned that in the fall the leaves change and that the weather gets colder. We also learned all about Halloween. We were able to go pumpkin picking and paint pumpkins, make hats for witches, make a spider out of a paper plate, and paint ghost into the night sky. We also have been practicing our Halloween poems a lot and can't wait to preform them in our costumes.

We are very excited for our fun month of November! Our first theme will be farms we will be learning all about them! We will be doing arts and crafts to help us learn all about the different animals and different tools used on a farm. After that we will be learning all about Thanksgiving. We will explore the first Thanksgiving, why we celebrate, who celebrates Thanksgiving, and more. We will be reading books and playing games to help us learn all about Thanksgiving. We will end the time learning about Thanksgiving will a fun party!

While we learn about farms and Thanksgiving, we will be continuing our lessons about every letter of the alphabet. We will review the letters we have already learned and start learning about Ff, Gg, Hh, and Ii. We will work on letter regonication, formation, and sound.

There are some things we work on everyday in Pre-K 3, no matter what theme it is. This includes calender, pledge of allegience, the weather report, counting, the whole alphabet, following directions, taking turns, sharing with our friends, and listening to the teacher. We play as many games as possible to practice being good friends and our listening skills.

Important Dates:

• Friday, November 6th - Professional Development day NO SCHOOL
• Wednesday, November 11th - Vetern's Day NO SCHOOL
• Wenesday, November 25th - Early dismissal at 11:15AM
• November 26th & 27Th - Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL

This is following the Common Core curriculum for Pre-K, which can be found here:

https://www.engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attachments/nyslsprek.pdf

If you are looking for extra activities to do with your child at home some options include:

• Reading every night
• Puzzles
• Play Dough
• Drawing and Painting
• Cooking and Baking
• Building Blocks

We are able to do our specials via our smartboard now. Our specials include:

• Art with Mrs. Murphy
• Music with Mrs. Stone
• Italian with Mrs. Woodward
• STREAM with Ms. Butler