Hello Parents! I hope you all enjoyed another long weekend! Mrs. Maldonado and I loved spending time with you all at the farm! Seeing the children so happy was such a beautiful blessing! We look forward to more activities in the future. Keep aa close eye out on our Classdojo this week for more information regarding out Halloween celebration!
Important Reminder: Trials for half day students to stay full day are this upcoming week. If you would like to have your child test out staying full day, please comment on our Classdojo post.
We are continuing with the theme “My Family” and starting unit 3 titled “Family Fun”. BIG Idea: I share special times with my family. Knowledge Focus: Children learn about family members, family roles, and the unique qualities of families. Social-Emotional Focus: Kindness. The theme vocabulary words include: celebrate, holiday, relatives, thankful and together. Math vocabulary words include: fewer, greater, less and more.
We will be learning the letter Ee, color black, oval and number 7. We will be reading the books “Celebrations!”, “What Mommies Do Best”, “What Daddies Do Best” and “Feast for 10”. We will also be reading “The Real Busy Spiders” Scholastic weekly reader. In the afternoon, we will be creating a Haunted House craft using various shapes such as rectangles, triangles and squares. Every Friday, we will continue to recap the week in our Journals.
We will continue talking about pumpkins this week and introduce spiders! We will discuss how they have 8 legs, 8 eyes and 2 body parts and create a spider headband as a craft. We will be opening a pumpkin and using our 5 senses to explore the different parts of a pumpkin. Lastly, we will read the “Pumpkin Jack” book and watch our pumpkin decompose in a container. We will finish up any crafts from previous weeks and hang them on our community wall. I will post pictures on our Classdojo so all can see what a great job the children have done! In our sensory bin, there will be orange colored rice, tweezers, spiders, bats, eyeballs and other Halloween themed manipulatives. The students will have to use their fine motor skills to squeeze the tweezers and take out each object.
For music and movement, we will continue to sing our “5 Little Pumpkins” song, dance to our Skeleton dance using GoNoodle.com and listen to our “Spooky Walk” song were the children have to listen to the directions and act out what is going on using their imagination.
For Jesus time, we will continue to sing our various songs, continue to discuss the story of Jacob and Rachel and their blessed baby, and add on how Jacob takes care of Joseph. We will also continue to recite our new snack/lunch time prayer.
Important Upcoming Dates:
1. October 28th – Trunk or Treat from 1pm to 3 pm
2. October 31st – Class Halloween Party! More details to come via Classdojo
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 spider emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?