Hello Parents! I hope everyone enjoyed this beautiful fall weekend! I loved seeing all of the pictures from our farm field trip! It looked like so much fun.
Important Dates & Announcements:
- Picture Day – October 7th (more information posted on our Classdojo)
- Columbus Day – NO SCHOOL October 14th
- Staff Professional Development Day – NO SCHOOL November 1st
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”. 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 take a closer look at pumpkins on our science table. In our sensory bin, there will be various halloween manipulatives! 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:
Art: Tuesday from 10:45 – 11:15
Chapel: Wednesday’s from 9:30 – 9:45
Gym: Wednesday’s from 2:15 – 2:45
Library: Thursday’s from 11:25 – 11:55
I will be sending homework packets out on Monday which will be due that following Tuesday due to the long weekend. 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! Ü