Hello Parents! I hope everyone enjoyed the much needed, long weekend! At least we were able to see a little bit of nicer weather towards the end of the weekend.
Important Upcoming Dates:
1. October 9th – No School for Columbus Day
2. October 19th – Field trip to White Post Farms! Please send in the permission slips if you haven’t done so already.
3. October 20th – No school for students due to Staff Professional Development Day
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 “Robot to the Rescue!” Scholastic weekly reader in honor of fire prevention this week and “Don’t Waste That Pumpkin!” Scholastic weekly reader. In the afternoon, we will be working on a Bat fact booklet! 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) on Friday. 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! 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, “Spooky Walk” song and do our Skeleton dance using GoNoodle.com.
For Jesus time, we will 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. Mrs. Maldonado will continue to teach the children new songs every week!
Specials:
Computers: Monday from 10:00 – 10:30
Gym: Tuesday from 9:15 – 9:45
Library: Thursday from 9:15 – 9:45
Art: Thursday from 10:00 – 10:37
I will be sending homework packets out on Monday which will be due the following Tuesday due to there being no school on 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. I will be posting more in-depth explanations of our weekly via blogs weekly. If you are reading this blog, send me a bat emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?