Holy Family School - Auburn, WA
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Mrs. Mary Glaze

Assistants:
​Mrs. Jessica De Jesus 

Pre-Kindergarten Team

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Pre-K

Our Pre-K program at Holy Family School fosters a love of learning, inspires faith, and provides a lifelong academic foundation for success in kindergarten and beyond.  
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Pre-K has a strong emphasis on literacy skills including letter sounds, basic word recognition, and writing letters and words using phonetics and hands on manipulatives.  Pre-K students are developing basic math concepts and problem-solving skills such as number recognition, patterns, shapes, counting and measuring.  Our class also incorporates a variety of age appropriate experiences including dramatic play, wheel toys, puzzles, blocks, lacing, pattern blocks, and counting manipulatives. Developmental play emphasizes social skills, language development, literacy, and fine motor skills.  Students will explore basic science concepts with many hands-on projects and engage in activities that develop large motor skills such as balance, jumping, skipping and hand-eye coordination. Music and art are incorporated into many areas of the curriculum.  Our Pre-K program is aligned with Common Core Standards.


We offer full-day and half-day Pre-K, 5 days a week. Please see our admissions page.
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Pre-K Curriculum
Literacy:
     Zoo-phonics is our main reading program in Pre-K.  Zoo-phonics is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a “phono” (hearing), “oral” (speaking), “visual” (seeing), “kinesthetic” (moving), and tactile (touching)—whole brain approach.  Zoo-phonics uses animals drawn in the shapes of the letters for ease in memory. A related body movement is given for each letter. This concrete approach cements the sounds to the shapes of the letters. Lowercase letters and their sounds are taught first (needed 95% of the time in text), capital letters and letter names are taught later. 
Students will also be exposed to a variety of genre including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Math:
     In Pre-K students become actively involved with concrete materials and make discoveries using a variety of manipulatives.  Over the school year we will work with patterns, colors, shapes, sorting, counting, and measurement.  We also use Heidisongs to teach numbers and shapes.  Research shows that in order to get the best learning outcome possible, children need to actively and simultaneously use as many of their senses as they can when they learn and practice. 
Writing:
     For handwriting we use Handwriting without Tears.  In this program we use specific language for writing our letter and number: big line, little line, big curve, little curve.  For example a B would be a big line and two little curves. 
     During creative writing each student has a Writing Workshop folder.  Every child is a writer regardless of their level.  Beginning writers will draw pictures to tell about their experiences, as the year goes on they will be encouraged to label their pictures. 
Science:
Students will have an opportunity to explore an interactive Science Center.  The contents of the center change bi-monthly.
Religion:
We focus on gifts from God: the world and his love for us.  We also learn basic prayers: Sign of the Cross, Our Father, and Grace before meals.  As part of our religion curriculum we will celebrate holy days, holidays, and learn appropriate church behavior.

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Class Schedule 


8:15 Arrival - All School Prayer and Pledge

8:30 Morning Work

8:45 Music, P.E, Library

9:15 Snack

9:30 Morning Meeting/Calendar/Zoo Phonics 


9:45 Literacy Centers 

10:40 Morning Recess

11:00 Religion

11:10 Math

12:00 Lunch (Dismissal for Half-Day)

12:30 Afternoon Recess


1:00 Rest Time

1:30 Handwriting/Science/Art

2:00  Development Centers

2:45  Clean-Up/Story Time

3:00 Dismiss


Library – Thursday (9:30)

PE – Wednesday, Friday (8:45)

Music – Monday,  Tuesday (9:00)



Mass – Thursdays twice a month (starting in November)






Distance Learning and Enrichment
 
Assignments will be given weekly, from Monday to Friday. 
The days of the week are a guideline.

See below for assignments for
6/8 to 6/12


Weekly Calendar 

Monday
Monday check-in- Let's Taco about it
Literacy- Write missing letters
Math- Count & Compare
Homework- Trace her
YouTube Videos 
https://youtu.be/ryTkdjbI6dQ
https://youtu.be/hA6CSl8zCJE

​​Tuesday
Literacy- Rhyming word match
Math- Addition
Homework- her book
YouTube Videos
https://youtu.be/UsgZTiZSxss

 Wednesday
Literacy-  Word Families
Math- Subtraction

YouTube Videos
https://youtu.be/Jun5jJeQJaM

Thursday
Literacy- Syllables 
Math- Making 10
Religion- Practice Angel of God Prayer

YouTube Videos 
https://youtu.be/y5FXyRNQ-k0 
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 ​Friday
Literacy- Word Families
Happy Summer
Religion- Practice Sign of the Cross



 +  Holy Family School + 505 17th St SE + Auburn, WA + 98002 + (253) 833-8688 + Email:  hfoffice@hfsauburn.com