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Minidoka Preschool Newsletter

October, 2023

Minidoka Preschool Newsletter October, 2023

Important Dates

  • Parent Teacher Conferences 12th-13th
  • October 16th Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Ideas for Busy Families:

In the Kitchen

In this unit, your child is learning about the importance of working together as friends.

  • Invite your child to join you in the kitchen to help you make a simple snack or help you with an easy chore. As you work together, talk about the importance of teamwork.

  • You may wish to use a cooking or baking experience to teach your child the importance of following directions.

On the Move

In this unit, your child is learning about clothing words.

  • Talk with your child about the clothing he or she is wearing. Encourage your child to use words such as hat, sweater, shirt, pants, and shoes. This will help your child to build his or her vocabulary of clothing words.

  • As you move about your neighborhood and town, point out clothing in the environment, such as in store windows and advertisements. Use clothing words to describe these items.

Focus Letters

Aa, Mm, Ss, Pp

Unit Theme

Friendship

October Vocabulary


Friend, share, help, rules, listen

bike, dog, horse, guitar, hat, moon, rope

season: Fall, winter, spring, summer

food: apple, pumpkin, squash, nuts, sweet potatoes,

farm: garden, fruit, vegetable, big and small

Teacher Corner

Mrs. Drenker

Mrs. D's class has been learning to mix colors to make new colors. We have made playdough and mixed colors. We have mixed paint to make new colors. We are learning colors and shapes and the letters in their names. Our afternoon class has learned the letters A and M.

Ms. Smith

We are learning about how to share and be helpful. We are practicing naming the letters in our names, counting to 10 and 20, and shapes.

Miss. Deb

We are working on being a good friend and what that means. Asking for toys, sharing toys, and using our words to ask for things.

We are learning finger play songs and singing our ABC's. Please help your child learn the first letter of their name and the sound that it makes. We are writing our names everyday (PM class). AM Class is learning their colors and shapes. We are making a color book.

Please send warm jackets with your child. It is chilly in the mornings.

Thanks,

Deb & Kelsey

Ms. Arizpe

We are starting the Making Friends unit and learning about friendship. We are still practicing class and school rules. We will be practicing our pre-writing skills and then moving on to writing letters.

Student Highlights

Feeling Sick?

Do not send your child to school if he/she has an excessive runny nose, cough, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, or if they have a fever of 100.4* or higher. A student may return to school after being fever-free without medication for 24 hours.*

If the parents cannot be reached by phone, the emergency contact person(s) listed in the student file will be called to pick up the child. Please maintain accurate and current information for the emergency file. Any addition or deletion for emergency contact person(s) should be given immediately to the school office.

Jennifer Gonzalez
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