Ms. Alexis's Pre-3 Boxcar Class

Dear Pk-3 Families:

It’s hard to believe we are in the month of April!

We are learning all about The Life Cycle of the Butterfly. Watching the life cycle of the butterfly is amazing, even more so for preschoolers. We ordered little caterpillars and they arrived last Thursday. The children’s task is to place the little caterpillars in a butterfly house and take care of them every day. We will watch them eat, grow and shed their skins. In a couple of weeks, the caterpillars will pupate, which means that they will form a chrysalis and sleep. We will have to wait a little bit longer to watch them emerge from their chrysalis as butterflies! These lovely butterflies will continue their life’s journey as we release them in our play yard.

Every week we will be working on a special project about it. We will decorate our classroom bulletin board and at the end of the month we will send the projects home. Our bulletin board is really starting to look fantastic!

Our Bible verse for this month is “Even a child is known by their acts.” Proverbs 20:11. To make this verse easier for the kids to understand we are learning the Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
The moral character we are working on is responsibility. We will be learning the importance of being responsible for others as well as self-responsibility. This week we did focus our bible lesson on reviewing the Easter Story. We learned about the Miracles of Jesus and the meaning of Easter.


Our Zoo phonics friends for this month are Dd-Deedee Deer and Bb-Bubba Bear. We will review all the letters we learned so far. We will continue working on pre-writing activities such as tracing their own last name. Some of our friends already can write their own names.
We are working on the numbers 15 & 20 and we are counting 1-30 with our calendar.

Please don't hesitate to call or e-mail with any questions or concerns.

Blessings,

PK-3 Teachers

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