October is quickly coming to an end.  I am sure that you have noticed the worksheets and/or heard from your students that we have officially began practicing our letters.  I talked with a few of you about how we follow the Handwriting Without Tears approach to learning how to write letters, here is what that looks like.

We are currently working on the letters we call "frog-jump capitals."  All of the letters in this group start with a big line down and then we "jump" to the top, by picking up our pencil and moving back to the top of the big line before finishing the other lines of our letter.  For example; you might hear your student say these things when writing the letter D.  "Big line down, jump to the top, big curve to the bottom."  The letters included in this group are:

F     E     D     P     B      R     N     M

We work with one letter on Monday and Tuesday and move to a different letter on Thursday and Friday.  I encourage you to talk about/practice writing/build/ and look for these letters as you go about your day.

This is what letter practice looks like right now in Preschool

Also, we have officially started our "Star of the Week" fun.  This week's stars of the week are Alex from the morning class and Abe from the afternoon class.  Next week's stars will be Brennick and Adin.

Upcoming events include:

Friday, October 23:  The Library will visit to read to us

Friday, October 30:  Fall/Halloween Party

Note:  I would like to try a "trick-for-treats" obstacle course at our Halloween party.  If anyone is interested, we could use some non-candy "treats" (pencils, balls, Halloween trinkets, etc) I am aiming for about 5 obstacles, so we would need 5 different types of treats, 30 treats each.  Please let me know if you are interested in contributing "treats" for our party.