Happy New Year! After a long vacation the Pre-K is off and running. We spent our first week reading books about the calendar and learning to recite the months of the year. This month we will sing songs about snow and cross our fingers for white flakes to fall. If it snows, we will put containers outside to collect the snow. We will measure and study the snow and watch it change as it melts.
January will include a unit on animals in winter. These lessons take us to the North and South Pole. We explore the lives and habitats of the polar bear, penguin, seal and walrus. How big is a polar bear? How many Pre-K students is that? How big do penguins get? Which animal is bigger? How do Daddy penguins walk with their eggs tucked under them? We will measure, compare and contrast our artic animals. Lots of fun activities are planned. At the end of the month we will celebrate what we learn with our Winter Animal Fun Day. If you have a stuffed seal, polar bear, walrus, rabbit or any winter animal, send it in on that day.
The students from Pre-K, Kindergarten, First and Second grades will celebrate Peace Day on January 13th. On that morning the children will move from room to room learning about Martin Luther King and the many peacemaking goals that are part of the GNA mission. We will hear stories, play games and complete a special peace project.
Our nativity scene is put away. The students took great delight in learning the Christmas story. Each day we heard a new part of the beautiful story of Jesus’ birth. This month we will be talking about Jesus as a small child. We will learn how He spent time working in the carpenter shop and what He did each day with Mary and Joseph. There are so many lessons we can learn from the Holy Family.
As the New Year begins, we say thank you for all you do each day.