Helpful Student Resources for Home

Here are a few wonderful resources for 

your child to use to build their academic skills.

These STAR PreK Binder sheets can be printed and placed in a binder for your child review on a regular basis. The Star Binder sheets consist of  Calendar & Weather Work, 
Alphabet Linking Chart, 
Counting with the tens frame, 
Left and right hands
, Time
, Shapes, 
Colors, and 
Math Concepts: Sort, Compare, and Patterns.

 

 

These sheets can also be printed and used as a fun family game to do together. 

Sight Word Practice:

Practice writing your name:

Reading Log:

These worksheets can be printed and laminted. Your child can used a dry-erase marker to work on building their skills. 

 

Number Recognition:

At home, you should practice to count to 20 with your child and practice writing numbers from 0 to 20. You can use shaving cream, sand, gel bags or anything you have on hand to make this activity highly engaging.  

Learning Centers in Our Universal Pre-K Classroom

Most Precious Blood School UPK 

The Responsive Classroom (RC) is an approach to teaching and learning that fosters safe, challenging and joyful classrooms and schools. Developed by classroom teachers, it consists of practical strategies for bringing together social and academic learning throughout the school day. The Responsive Classroom approach helps create learning environments where students thrive socially, academically and emotionally.  We use RC in our classroom because these methods contribute to a safe and welcoming 

school community. 

One Component of Our Responsive Classroom is 

Our Classroom Morning Meeting. 

Our Morning Meeting is a whole group class meeting and consists of music, stories, and group discussion. During group discussion, we talk about things the children are interested in and wonder about. We talk about things they have noticed recently or things that have happened. We also have a daily literacy activity,  phonemic awareness exercise, math game, and science exploration activity. Literacy and phonemic awareness activities can be as simple as a game, a chart, puppet play, rhyming, or singing a song.  

Another Component of Our Responsive Classroom is Our Learning Centers.  

Our students learn to regulate the centers themselves through hands-on play and problem-solving. Many of the materials are open-ended, and students are allowed to use them creatively and decide how to use materials.
Examples of Our Learning Activities

These activities provide opportunities for your pre-k child to build academic skills that will prepare them for Kindergarten.

Reading & English Language Arts Alphabet Match-up Word Recognition Name Game Alphabet Puzzle People, Places, and Things My Name Connect-the-Dots Alphabet X's and O's Find the Letter Alphabet Play dough Alphabet Book Dictionary Name Game Make a Sentence Language Play             Math Food Count Number Fun Number Matchup Connect the Dots Bank on It Every Number Counts Kitchen Shapes Math Codes Secret Mathematical Formulas Shopping Math Counting Telling Time One, Two, Buckle My Shoe       In addition, I work on building gross and fine motor skills.  I have many sensory, dramatic pal, and art activities built into our daily learning centers.