Hello Parents!! Happy almost Halloween!! With the changing weather, please pack your child accordingly as we will continue to go outside. This includes heavier jackets, hats, gloves and scarfs are encouraged. Also, a huge thank you again to all of the volunteers that have sent and are sending in treats for our Halloween Orange Day celebration on Tuesday. Mrs. Maldonado and I can’t wait to bake those Monster Trash cookies with them! All children are invited to come in on Tuesday for our celebration. If you choose to send your child in, please private message me on Classdojo letting me know.
Important Upcoming Dates & Reminders:
- October 31st – Orange Day celebration! Students can wear anything Orange! NO costumes may be worn to school.
- November 10th – Veterans Day. There will be no school this day!
- November 14th – Picture retakes day
- November 22nd – School-wide Thanksgiving Feast! More details to come.
- November 23rd-24th – NO school due to Thanksgiving Recess.
We are finishing up the theme “My Family” and unit 4 titled “All Kinds of Families”. BIG Idea: Every family is unique. Knowledge Focus: Children learn about family members, family roles, and the unique qualities of families. Social-Emotional Focus: Kindness. The theme vocabulary words include: alike, special, different, tradition, respect and similar. Math vocabulary words include: group, pile, object and sort.
We will be learning the letter Ff, color purple, octagon and number 8. We will be reading the books “You and Me Together”, “What Mommies/Daddies Do Best”, “We Are All Alike”, “We Are All Different” and “Harold and the Purple Crayon”. We will also be reading the “Things That Go BUMP and AWOO in the Night” Scholastic weekly reader. For our afternoon instruction, we will continue to work on the letter of the week reinforcement worksheets as well as create a leaf picture frame craft using leaves we collected! Every Friday, we will continue to recap the week in our Journals.
We will start talking about all things leaves! We will go for a nature walk, collect leaves and then sort them based on color. We will also start creating various leaf projects. These will be displayed on the walls and posted on the dojo asap! We will also use the leaves we collected for our sensory bin. We will have acorns in them and the children will have to use tweezers to take them out! This will help their fine motor skills.
For music and movement, we will start a new Thanksgiving song titled “Thank Him” and dance to a guided Turkey dance using GoNoodle.com!
For Jesus Time, we will continue to sing the song “Jesus Loves Me” and begin singing a new song for Thanksgiving called “Thank Him” which we thank God for all he has done for us. We will also be reciting a new prayer for the month of November. The prayer goes as follows, “Thank you for the world so sweet. Thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the birds that sing. Thank you God for everything!”. Lastly, Mrs. Maldonado will teach the child about Joshua and Jericho “Thank you for cities”.
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 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 leaf emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?