I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend and the beautiful weather we had. Our classroom was nice and cool today! Each week from now on I will be placing a weekly calendar on the blog to let you know what we will be doing all week. Along with any reminders that I have for the week, I will be listing a few of the activities we will be doing throughout the week. Thanks for all the notes regarding extended day/library. If your child will have the same schedule each week, just one note is neccesary.
Here is a look at our week...
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Today we continued with our theme, Meeting and Making New Friends and the letter Mm. We are doing a great job of getting to know each other and getting along with everyone. It is a great idea and help to your child to review our letter of the week at home. During circle time we go over the sound and name of the letter. As a class we play games to recognize pictures that begin with the letter Mm sound as well as pointing out words with the letter Mm.
We are now into the swing of things and the children seem to be following our schedule very nicely.
During free play this week we have ice melting in the sensory tub! The children are using squirt bottles, filled with warm water, to melt the ice. The easel is also open to anyone who would like to paint. I am sure some of your houses are getting filled with some artwork by now :)
For our art project today we had our first recyclable art day! I put various items on the table and the children could create anything they wanted to. I was so happy to see their imagination soar...we have some great artists in here. I would appreciate any donations of art supplies for our recyclable art, such as...paper towel tubes, cardboard, foam, ribbon, pipe cleaners, buttons, etc...
Today was an exciting morning! We got to go to Library Class. Mrs. Conn invites the 4 year old class to attend Library 2xs a week. On Thursday we attend in the afternoon. She has kindly fit us into the only 2 open spots she has, so we are very happy. The class attends for 20 minutes and Mrs. Conn reads some great books to us!
All of your child's work from last week and this week will be coming home this week.
I kept rest towels here over the weekend, since we only used them for 3 days last week and this week was a shortened week too. They will all be coming home on Friday.
Wednesday
Today we will practice printing the letter Mm. We have been working on printing our first names too! Everyone is doing a great job at holding our pencils and crayons the correct way.
For art today we will be making monkey puppets!!
Thursday
Today we will be looking at different words that begin with m and matching pictures to them.
*Library in the afternoon.
Friday
We will be going to the gym in the morning! We will play games and have some free time to play with the balls and hula hoops.
For our art project today we will be making a special project for our grandparents...Grandparent's Day is this Sunday.
September 11th is Nicholas' Birthday!!
Have a great week and please let me know if you have any questions!
Mrs. Dougherty