Hello Parents! I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. Please keep in mind that we will continue to go outside as long as the weather 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.
Important Upcoming Dates & Reminders:
- Friday, 11/23 is our School-wide Thanksgiving Feast! More details to come!
- There will be no school Thursday 11/24 and Friday 11/25 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 finish up our fall booklet, 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. I will also added another center for the children to play at: The Writing Center! Here, the children can practice writing the alphabet and words! They are given dry erase boards, crayons, pencils and different sheets of paper. I will also add more material to our Art center such as scissors, glue, markers and stickers!
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 my favorite parts of the year.
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 continue to recite our new prayer for the month of November. Lastly, Mrs. Gonzalez will teach our Jesus time curriculum, voyages 10: “Thank you for school”.
Specials:
Art: Tuesday from 9:15 – 9:45
Gym: Wednesday from 11:25 – 11:55
Chapel: Every other Wednesday at 9:30
Library: Thursday from 11:25 – 11:55
Computers: Friday from 10:45 – 11:15
I will be sending home homework packets on Monday which will be due back 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. If you are reading this blog, send me another leaf emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! ?