Hello Parents!! I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. As the weather continues to change, just a gentle reminder that we will still be going outside if it is above 37 degrees. Children are highly encouraged to wear proper attire such as a heavy coat, a hat, gloves, a scarf, sneakers/boots etc. Also, with the weather change comes an influx in sickness. We ask that you please keep your child home if they are not feeling well. Mrs. Maldonado and I sanitize materials daily but unfortunately germs can still spread very quickly.
Important Upcoming Dates & Reminders:
- November 14th – Picture retakes!
- November 15th – Field trip to the Fire Station!
- Wednesday, 11/22 is our School-wide Thanksgiving Feast! All children are invited to stay for the full day. Please message me asap if you plan to have your child stay. More details will be posted on our ClassDojo.
- There will be no school Thursday 11/23 and Friday 11/24 due to Thanksgiving Recess.
We are continuing with theme 3 “Our Community” and starting unit 2 titled “People We Meet”. BIG Idea: The workers in my community help everyone. Social-Emotional Focus: Responsibility. The theme vocabulary words include: doctor, firefighter, librarian, mail carrier, police officer, work and workers. Math vocabulary words include: closer, distance and farther. We are asking for any and all community worker volunteers to come in and talk about your job with the class! A flyer was posted on Classdojo with information. If you would like to volunteer, please private message me on Classdojo. We would love to have you all!
We will be learning the letter Hh, number 10, color blue and review shapes. We will be reading the books “A Goodnight Walk, “Jobs”, “Dot the Fire Dog” and “ABC Drive!”. For our afternoon instruction, we will continue to work on our community project, review the letter Hh and complete a count and match cutting worksheet. Every Friday, we will continue to recap the week in our Journals.
We will continue talking about leaves and completing various crafts. We will also be discussing Thanksgiving and what it means to be Thankful in lieu of the upcoming holiday. We will also add in a scarecrow project and talk about what their purpose is on a farm. We will continue to play with leaves we collected outside and acorns for our sensory bin.
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! We will also start to practice our songs for our upcoming Christmas Program!!! I am so excited for you all to see how hard they work on this program. It is truly one of our favorite parts of the year.
For Jesus time, we will continue to sing our various songs Mrs. Maldonado has taught the children. We will also continue to recite our new prayer for the month of November. Lastly, Mrs. Maldonado will teach our Jesus time curriculum, voyages 10: “Thank you for school”.
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 an orange heart emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?