Pumpkin Patch Preschool and Kindergarten

In February, the students will be learning about and working on:

(*depicts 5-day students only)

Reading & Language Arts

Printing letters S, T, U and V

Recognizing words that begin with these letters

Signing these letters, as well as words that begin with these letters

Sight Words:  little, big, look, for, up, down, a, funny, that, pretty, like, to

Word Family:  -ug

Blends

Ending Sounds

Practice:  Address, phone number and birthday

Printing First and Last Name using correct formation 

Math

Adding/subtracting

Graphing hearts

Measuring with hearts

Couting by 5s/10s to 100

Telling time to the hour and half hour

Geometric shapes

2D flat (square, triangle, circle, rectangle)

3D (sphere, cube, cylinder cone)

Social Studies

Ground Hog's Day

Learning about Presidents

Spanish

Words:  happy, sad, hot, cold, train, boat, plane, car

January Themes

Penquins/Antartica

Made giant penguins

Talked about 17 kinds of penguins

Made blubber and talked about how it keeps polar bears and penquins warm

Made posters showing different kinds of penquins

Learned about auroras, icebergs and glaciers

February Themes

Reptiles/Amphibians

Make a book

Practice sentence writing and word recognition

"Touch" - rough/smooth

Space

Learn about planets

Oridnal numbers

Biggest to smallest

Five Senses

Sight (thing that you can see, but not touch)

Smell

Touch (make a touchy feely)

Taste (sweet/sour/salty taste test)

Transportation

Make a book

Make/design paper airplanes

Airplane races

Upcoming Events

Feb. 6: 100th Day of School Celebration

Feb. 13: Valentine's Day Party

Feb. 17: Dentist Visit

Feb. 20: NO SCHOOL

Feb. 27:  Police Officer Visit