Ms.Diaz
stbrendanschoolbronx@gmail.com
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PreK 3 - Ms.Diaz
Email: cdiaz@stbrendanschoolbronx.org

Week of: May 2nd, 2022

✏️Important Dates to Remember✏️ 

No School on Friday, May 27, 2022 to Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Memorial Day Weekend! Back to school on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. 

Reminders!
-Children may start to arrive in the morning at 8:20 .. enter in the schools driveway.
Our class will dismiss at 2:50 SHARP. 
PLEASE BE ON TIME FOR BOTH ARRIVAL AND DISMISSAL. 
-Your child's name must be on everything that comes to school.  
-Help your child write and recognize their first name daily. 
-Please do not send your child to school if they do not feel good! 
-Bed sheets are sent home every Friday, please return them on Monday in a plastic ziploc bag. 
-When sending in snacks in your child's backpack please make sure to put them in a lunch box or bag. Also as the weather will be warming up soon, please make sure to send your child with a bottle of water to school daily. 

-Please make sure to dress your child appropriately for the weather as we do go outside and play in the gym during our gross motor time. 

Please remember to sign up for Seesaw. I will be posting activities for your child weekly. If you have trouble accessing it, please let me know.

Study for the Month: Unit 9 (Babies)
(We are on week 3)

Essential Question: What are babies?

​​​​​Focus Question for the week: 
​​​​​Week 1: What do human babies need?
Week 2: What can we learn about animal babies?
​​​​Week 3: What can we learn about animal babies?
Week 4: How do babies change?

Vocabulary you can discuss with your child:
Week 1: adopted, appointment, baby, bassinet, bib, bottle, born, buggy, care, car seat, clothing, cradle, crib, cry, cuddle, diaper, gentle, glide, hospital, infant, lullaby, newborn, nursery, nurture, parent, pediatrician, premature, rattle, sleep, sling, snuggle, stroller, swaddle
Week 2: calf*, duck*, duckling*, egg, elephant*, frog*, habitat, hatch, tadpole*, veterinarian, zoologist
Week 3: disguise, lizard, outgrow, parade
Week 4: adult, babble, big, change, child, coo, crawl, grow, height, roll, size, small, talk, tiny, toddler, walk, weight

Foundational texts to discuss with your child (You may find these on YouTube)
Week 1: Babies Don’t Walk, They Ride! by Kathy Henderson
Week 2: Follow Me! Animal Parents and Babies by Shira Evans
Week 3: Lizard From the Park by Mark Pett
Week 4: The Little Red Stroller by Joshua Furst
 

Letter of the week: We will continue with last weeks letter of the week. S for small, spoon, spill, etc... Review letters we have already done.

Family Engagement: 

Week 1: As a family look through baby pictures of your child. Discuss all the silly things your child did as a baby. Feel free to upload any baby pictures to Seesaw or send them into school. 
Week 2: Look through your child's baby clothes and baby toys together. Ask them to draw themselves in their favorite outfit holding their favorite toy.  
Week 3:Sing your child's favorite song or read their favorite story when they were a baby, together as a family. 
Week 4:  Investigate baby animals. Draw pictures of mommy animals with their babies, cats/kittens, dogs/puppies etc......

Here are some more suggestions for things you can do at home to reinforce what your child, is learning in school...

Please have your child practice writing his/her name, and identify the letters in it.

Have your child identify different shapes they see in your home or on the way to school.

Please have your child practice writing numbers and identifying them.

Math/Building Blocks:
Ask your child to write two different numbers between 1 and 10, then ask them to circle the larger number.  

*Links for Pre K Learn At Home instructional resources from DOE:
https://cdn-blob-prd.azureedge.net/prd-pws/docs/default-source/default-document-library/learn-at-home-2020/early-childhood-family-activities-accessible.pdf

*Below please find a new link for some more activities you can do at home: https://infohub.nyced.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/dece-spring-into-learning!.pdf

ITEMS YOUR CHILD NEEDS FOR SCHOOL:
-2 sets of extra clothes labeled in a clear zip lock bag, include underware, socks, shirt, and pull on pants.
-A labeled CRIB sheet for nap/resting mat. 
-A labeled REGULAR size backpack, no mini backpacks.
-2 labeled folders.
-A healthy lunch in a SOFT labeled lunch box, if your child will not eat the school lunch.
-A family photo no bigger then 4x6.
-Extra masks labeled in a ziploc bag.

-2 blue cards and any important papers from the office that must be filled out.

Please DO NOT send your child to school with ANY of the following:
-Overalls or pants with buckels, buttons, belts
-Costume play jewelry or jewelry of any kind!
-Dangle earrings/post only
-Sandals or open toed shoes/sneakers work the best!
-Toys of any kind from home
-Candy/gum
-Electronics

Thank you for your cooperation!
Ms.Diaz and Ms.Antionette