Hello Parents! I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather. It was definitely much needed!
We are starting our second theme this week titled “My Family” and beginning with unit 1 titled “Who’s in My Family?”. BIG Idea: I am an important part of my family. Knowledge Focus: Children learn about family members, family roles, and unique qualities of families. Social-Emotional focus: kindness. The theme vocabulary words include: family, father, mother, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother and kindness. Math vocabulary words include: circle, corner, side, square, rectangle and triangle.
We will be learning the letter Cc, color brown, diamond and number 5. We will be reading the books “Bear’s Busy Family”, “Herman the Helper” and “Daddy Calls Me Man”. We will also be reading “Here Comes The Fire Dogs!” Scholastic weekly reader in honor of fire prevention this week and “Don’t Waste That Pumpkin!” Scholastic weekly reader. In the morning, we will be working on a Bat fact booklet! In the afternoon, we will be completing a fall booklet that focuses on developing listening comprehension skills. Every Friday, we will continue to recap the week in our Journals.
We will continue talking about pumpkins and introduce all things bats! We will take a virtual field trip to learn about bats and their habitats, as well as introduce the terms nocturnal, echolocation and explain how bats are mammals! We will watch “Franklin and His Night Friend” (a short clip) with ECC 4. We will complete various crafts for the two themes. We will weigh pumpkins on our science table. In our sensory bin, we will continue to be using dirt, colored paper and farm animal toys to play with! This week, I may add some water to our sensory bin and have the children “clean” the muddy farm animals. I apologize in advance if they come home a little dirty! More farm animal and October/pumpkin crafts will soon be displayed on Classdojo.
For music and movement, we will be continue to sing our “5 Little Pumpkins” song and do our Skeleton dance using GoNoodle.com.
For Jesus time, we will continue to sing the song “Jesus Loves Me” and continue to discuss the story of Abraham and how he is blessed by God. We will also continue to recite our new snack/lunch time prayer.
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 21st – No school for students due to Staff Professional Development Day
2. October 26th – Fall Field trip to White Post Farms
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 bat emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?