Hello Parents and happy 1st day of Fall!!!! As we are transitioning into this new season, please be aware of the weather. We will be going outside if weather permits and some windy days require a sweatshirt/jacket.
Important Dates & Announcements:
- White Post Farms Field Trip – October 4th
- Picture Day – October 7th (more information to come)
- Columbus Day – NO SCHOOL October 14th
- Staff Professional Development Day – NO SCHOOL November 1st
We are continuing with theme 1 “Ready for school” and starting unit 3 titled “Learning Together”. BIG Idea: I work and play with my friends at school. Knowledge Focus: Children learn the expectations, routines, and behaviors of school. Social-Emotional focus: cooperation. The theme vocabulary words include: learn, partners and play. Math vocabulary words include: longer, shorter and taller.
We will be learning the letter Aa, color green, rectangle and number 3. We will be reading the books “The Pledge of Allegiance”, “My Friends” and “Mouse’s 1st Day of School”. We will also be reading the “Little Green Apple” Scholastic weekly reader on the SMARTBoard this week. This reinforces the color green, how apples get from orchards to stores, and planting. Every Friday, we will continue to recap the week in our Journals. For a special snack on Friday, we will be tasting 3 different kinds of apples!
For Jesus time, we will continue to sing “Jesus Loves Me”, “God Loves the Little Children” and continue to discuss creation, focusing on days 6 and 7. We will continue to recite our Johnny Appleseed prayer before snack, lunch and the remainder of September. Mr. Stainkamp will visit the children as Johnny Appleseed for Chapel in the church on Wednesday!
We will continue to discuss all things apples such as taking a deeper look inside an apple at our science table, watch apples decompose, discuss the three different color of apples and create another apple craft. All of these fun activities will be displayed on our Classdojo.
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 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 green apple emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! Ü