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3-Year-Old Preschool: Mrs. Sutfin - Room 104
Pre-3 at St. Viator is a great place to start an educational beginning! The students have been involved in so many new and exciting adventures. In August we had a Welcoming Tea for students to meet their teachers and see their new room. September was a month of learning new routines and making new friends. Everything was a starting point. By October coming to school was "old hat". Lessons revolved around Fire Prevention Week, Red Ribbon Week, and our favorite, Halloween. Halloween was celebrated with a costume parade and a party. November was when we learned about the season of fall and Thanksgiving. There was a feast with the entire Early Childhood Unit to observe this special day. December brought us the snows of winter and Christmas activities. Singing on stage for the first time for the Christmas program was a highlight.
All of these adventures were used to help us learn many things. We have been cutting and gluing and painting art works. We are counting and recognizing colors and shapes. Our names are recognized and spelled with name cards. We go to the library, computer lab and sing with Mr. Mike each week. The playground, walks around the school and being in the Activity Room work our large muscles. Stories and books are heard everyday. It's a wonder that we can fit all of this into only three half days a week!
4-Year-Old Preschool: Miss Currie - Room 103
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The 4-year-old preschoolers have been so busy with their hands-on learning activities since January. Most of the children's activities are related to weekly themes. Some of the themes the children have been learning are: the seasons of winter and spring, the 5 senses, planting, ocean animals and sea creatures, transportation, insects and bugs, and zoo animals. A couple of field trips were planned to go along with these themes. In April the children went to the Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium after learning about the ocean habitat and creatures that live there. The end of May brought us our last field trip of the school year, to Lincoln Park Zoo. The children enjoyed seeing all the animals at the zoo that they learned about in the classroom.
During these weekly themes, the children are introduced to and practice skills they need to know before going to Kindergarten. In Language Arts, they have spent the entire year learning a new letter each week. We finished learning about the entire alphabet at the beginning of May, so for the rest of the year activities will be |
concentrating on reviewing letters, sounds, and formation of the entire alphabet. In math, the children have been reviewing their numbers from 1-20, creating patterns with different materials, graphing, finding opposites, and reviewing shapes and colors, to name a few things. The end of the school year is marked by an End of the Year Celebration for the children. They have been busy learning songs, a poem and even the alphabet in sign language to perform for their parents at the celebration. With all that the children have learned and accomplished this past year, they are all ready to become Kindergarteners!
The preschoolers release the butterflies
they raised in their classroom.
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