{"id":3919,"date":"2026-09-11T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anniekucharcik.com\/school\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:05:38","slug":"newsletter-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anniekucharcik.com\/school\/newsletter-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter 9\/11\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3919\" class=\"elementor elementor-3919\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ec044aa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ec044aa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dd7cd87\" data-id=\"dd7cd87\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c9f2e9 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c9f2e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Preschool Families,<\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy Friday! This week, the big concepts we have been working on included the following:<\/span><\/p><p><b>Creative Curriculum:<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the rules at school, and how have we been following them?<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do we use our hands in a safe way and in a way that helps us learn at school?<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do we keep our school clean and safe?<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Second Step:<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have been focusing on healthy listening habits by having eyes watching, ears listening, quiet voices, and calm bodies.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We continue to learn each other\u2019s names and are practicing how to communicate our thoughts and feelings in order to play together and solve problems kindly.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also continue to understand and remember our daily schedule and the expectations during each of those times throughout our school day together.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Heggerty Phonemic Awareness:<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeating 2 rhyming words<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saying the first sound of words<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeating 2 words then putting them together to make a compound word<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saying the last sound in a word<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeating a compound word and then breaking it apart into the two words<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saying the first part of a word and then adding the next part of a word to make the new word<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saying a whole word and removing the beginning part of the word to see what\u2019s left<\/span><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: These concepts will be taught all year long and are included in the assessment for 4-year-olds that came home in your Friday folders.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Next week our big concepts will include:<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Focus Question is \u201cWhen do things happen at school?\u201d<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will be discussing when we get to school, what we do after we wake up in the morning, and what we do when we first get to school. (This will reinforce our morning drop-off protocol as well as becoming more familiar with our daily routines\/schedule.)\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Important Announcements:<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember that next Friday, 9\/18, is Teacher Work Day &#8211; no school for students.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enjoy the weekend!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Preschool Team<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Preschool Families, Happy Friday! 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