Hello Parents! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend! As we are transitioning to fall, please be aware of the weather. We will be going outside if weather permits and some windy days require a sweatshirt/jacket.
Important Reminder – All Scholastic book orders are due Thursday 9/29!
We are continuing with theme 1 “Ready for school” and starting unit 3 titled “Learning Together”. BIG Idea: I work and play with my friends at school. Knowledge Focus: Children learn the expectations, routines, and behaviors of school. Social-Emotional focus: cooperation. The theme vocabulary words include: learn, partners and play. Math vocabulary words include: longer, shorter and taller.
We will be learning the letter Aa, color green, rectangle and number 3. We will be reading the books “The Pledge of Allegiance”, “My Friends” and “Mouse’s 1st Day of School”. We will also be reading the “Little Green Apple” Scholastic weekly reader on the SMARTBoard this week. This reinforces the color green, how apples get from orchards to stores, and planting. Every Friday, we will continue to recap the week in our Journals.
For Jesus time, we will continue to sing the song “Jesus Loves Me” and continue to discuss creation, focusing on days 6 and 7. We will continue to recite our Johnny Appleseed prayer before snack, lunch and the remainder of September. Mr. Stainkamp will visit the children as Johnny Appleseed for our first Chapel in the church on Wednesday!
We will continue to discuss all things apples such as taking a deeper look inside an apple at our science table, watch apples decompose, plant apple seeds, discuss the three different color of apples and create another apple craft. We will taste our Apple Pie we created with Mrs. Wong on Monday and taste the 3 different kinds of apples on Friday! I am or may not bring in a special treat for the children to taste another form of apples! All of these fun activities will be displayed on our Classdojo. For the color yellow, we will be finishing up our sunflower color craft.
Specials:
Art: Tuesday from 9:15 – 9:45
Gym: Wednesday from 11:25 – 11:55
Chapel: Every other Wednesday at 9:30
Library: Thursday from 11:25 – 11:55
Computers: Friday from 10:45 – 11:15
Important Upcoming Dates:
1. October 4th – ECC Parent Night
2. October 10th – No School for Columbus Day
3. October 21st – No school for students due to Staff Professional Development Day
4. October 25th – TBD Fall Field trip to the farm!
I will be sending home homework packets on Monday which will be due back the following Monday. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please reach out to me on our Class Dojo app or via email at [email protected]. All communications from me will be posted on Class Dojo. If you are reading this blog, send me a green apple emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?