Hello Parents! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. I wish the weather was better but rainy weather calls for lots of movies! As we are transitioning to fall, 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
- Columbus Day – NO SCHOOL October 14th
- Staff Professional Development Day – NO SCHOOL November 1st
We are finishing up with theme 1 “Ready for School” and starting unit 4 titled “Getting Along”. BIG Idea: I know how to share, and I care about the feelings of others. Knowledge Focus: Children learn the expectations, routines, and behaviors of school. Social-Emotional focus: cooperation. The theme vocabulary words include: cooperate, share and turns. Math vocabulary words include: less, more and same.
We will be learning the letter Bb, color pink, triangle and number 4. We will be reading the books “The Little Red Hen” and another story similar to compare the two, “How Many Can Play?” and “My Friends”. In the afternoon, we will be completing a spider web craft that will hang where the children walk in! To go alongside the theme of this week, we will be creating a “Muddy Pig” craft! This will allow the children to use their hands and spread out “mud” which consists of brown paint and oats!
For Jesus time, we will begin to discuss the story of Abraham. We will start a new snack and lunch time prayer for the month of October which is “God is good. God is great and we thank him for our food”.
We will start discussing farm animals this week and pumpkins! Over the course of the month, we will take a deeper look at pumpkins such as how they decompose, how heavy they are and what they look/feel like on our science table. In our sensory bin, we will be using the left over oats from the month of September, colored paper and farm animal toys to play with! More farm animal and October/pumpkin crafts will soon be displayed on Classdojo.
We will also be baking bread with jelly just as the Little Red Hen does in our story for the week. We can’t wait to have our parent volunteer join us! Pictures and videos will also be posted to 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 pig emoji via classdojo!
Have a wonderful week! Ü