IMPORTANT INFORMATION

I told the children, if they practice their names neatly or any of the letters we learned so far correctly at home, they can bring it in to me and I will give them a sticker!!!!! Practice makes perfect!!!!! 

Please check my Newsletter each month for important information!!!

Weekly News

• Please be sure to sign your child up for Vacation Bible School at Mater Dei! I will be teaching the Preschool group, and I am looking forward to a really fun week!
• With the weather starting to get warmer we will be going out to the playground as often as possible. Please make sure your child is wearing sneakers everyday. I can not let the climb on the equipment without sneakers for safety reasons.
•  In our seventh year, we are energized by the recognition as a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.  We invite you to honor this special occasion through our TitleWish Initiative, which will allow us to fill our media center with high-quality educational resources and books that will provide even more academic opportunities for our students. Please help us reach our goal of $2500.00 by clicking on the link below before May 3rd.  Each donation will be acknowledged with a special bookplate inside all of the newly purchased materials. Thank you for your help in allowing us to provide the best education for all of the students at Mater Dei Catholic School where we celebrate Faith, Excellence, Service, and Community every day! https://www.titlewish.com/1092436
•  I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Thank you for the cards, candy and gifts. They were truly appreciated. This week we will continue to learn about life cycles in our Religion Theme: God Made Butterflies and our Literacy Theme: Everything Changes. We will be reading lots of books about the life cycle of a caterpiller as it goes through several changes to become a butterfly.  I ordered real caterpillars so we will be observing the caterpillars change into butterflies. We will let the butterflies go in May. This week we will meet Ms. E with her exercise engery. We will discuss how important it is to keep our bodies moving.  Have a great week!!!
• You can help your child by reviewing the letters S, P, T,O, X, Y, W, F, A Z, B, M. R, C Q, J, H, I, G and E. Please remember to start all letters at the top.  We have been working on printing first names in all capital letters. The children are ready to move on printing their names in capital and lower case. so we will begin trying to go to lower case letters. The children have been doing a wonderful job but they could always use the practice.  Thank you for the gift of your child and the sacrafices you make to send your child to a Catholic School!  Enjoy your week!!!

HELPFUL LINKS

Monthly Newsletter
Class Schedule
PreK Curriculum
Weekly Themes

ABOUT ME

Welcome to Preschool! My name is Kim DiMascio. I teach the four-year-old, five day a week, half and full day preschool class and the MWF half and full day class. I have been teaching for 27 years. I graduated from Chestnut Hill College with a degree in both early childhood and elementary education. I continued my education by going back to Chestnut Hill College to get my Master’s degree in early childhood education. I taught kindergarten, first grade, sixth grade and preschool. I taught sixth grade for one year at Saint Stanislaus School then I opened and taught preschool for 10 years until we merged and became Mater Dei Catholic. I have been teaching preschool at Mater Dei for 7 years. I live in Saint Stanislaus Parish. I have two children, Jonathan, a senior at Temple University and Christopher, a sophomore at Montgomery County Community College.  I am very excited to be a part of the faculty here at Mater Dei. I am looking forward to a great year!!!!!