Hello Parents! We officially completed our first full week of school!!! This school year is looking very bright. Please continue to complete the daily attestations upon arrival.
We are continuing with theme 1 “Ready for school” and starting unit 2 titled “Making Friends”. BIG Idea: I will make friends at school. Knowledge Focus: Children learn the expectations, routines, and behaviors of school. Social-Emotional focus: cooperation. The theme vocabulary words include: friends, play and help. Math vocabulary words include: beside, on, in, under and between.
We will be learning the color yellow, square and number 2. We will be reading the books “Friends at School” and “A Splendid Friend Indeed”. We will also be reading the “I Help Cleanup!” Scholastic weekly reader this week.
For Jesus time, we will continue to sing the song “Jesus Loves Me” and discuss the first 3 days of creation. We will read the stories of Day 1. Day 2 and Day 3 of creation as well as color scenes from these stories. We will continue to recite our Johnny Appleseed prayer before snack and lunch for the remainder of September.
We will continue to discuss all things apples such as taker a deeper look inside an apple at our science table, discuss the three different colors of apple, discuss where apples come from and complete another apple craft that will be displayed on Classdojo. We will also be making a sunflower plate as our color craft.
Specials:
Art: Wednesday from 10:40 – 11:20
Gym: Thursday from 9:57 – 10:37
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.
Have a wonderful week!