Hello Parents! Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend! With that comes Winter right around the corner. Please continue to pack accordingly for your child, as we will continue to go outside as long as the weather is above 37 degrees.
Important Upcoming Dates & Reminders:
- November 8th – Veteran’s Day Program in the Church
- November 10th – NO SCHOOL due to Veteran’s Day
- November 14th – Picture Retakes
- November 15th – Field trip to the Fire Station!
- November 22nd – School-wide Thanksgiving Feast! More details to come soon!
- There will be NO SCHOOL Thursday 11/23 and Friday 11/24 due to Thanksgiving Recess.
We are going to skip over theme 2 week 4 and start theme 3 titled “Our Community” and unit 1 titled “Places We Go”. BIG Idea: Children learn about the role of the community in their lives and the importance of good citizenship. Social-Emotional Focus: Responsibility. The theme vocabulary words include: apartments, block, building, community, firehouse, hospital, library, neighborhood, park and sidewalk. Math vocabulary words include: above, location, near, next to, route and through. For this entire theme, I will be asking for parent community worker volunteers to come in and discuss their jobs with the class! Please keep an eye out on our dojo for more information.
We will be learning the letter Gg, color gray, number 9 and review shapes. We will be reading the books “Lola at the Library”, “Knuffle Bunny”, “A Goodnight Walk” and “Mama Zooms”. We will also be reading the “Here Come the Veterans!” Scholastic weekly reader. For our afternoon instruction, we will create a torn paper Veteran’s Day craft that focuses on developing fine motor skills, and complete a color review leaf sheet. In honor of Election Day on Tuesday, we will be voting for our class snack! Since there is no school on Friday, we will complete our weekly Journal on Thursday.
We will start talking about squirrels this week as well! We will complete a watercolor squirrel craft using the leaves we collected from our Nature Walk! This will be displayed on dojo! We will also continue to 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 continue to sing our Thanksgiving song titled “Thank Him” and dance to a guided Turkey dance using GoNoodle.com!
For Jesus time, Mrs. Maldonado will continue to teach the children new Jesus songs and we will begin singing a new song for Thanksgiving called “Thank Him” which we thank God for all he has done for us. We will also continue to recite our new prayer for the month of November. Lastly, Mrs. Maldonado will teach our Jesus time curriculum, voyages 9: “Thank you for church”.
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 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 squirrel emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?