April 11, 2014
Dear Parents,
We are continuing our unit
on insects, and our cuties are getting it!
They love to play “insect” in our dramatic play, look for insects
outside, and tell everyone they see all about insects!!! (Ask your child about
insects—six legs, two eyes, antennae, 3 body parts (head, thorax, abdomen),
exoskeleton, etc.) We have been focusing
on bees this week. J
This week we…
*learned the sound and
letter formation for the letter Qq.
*added “quilt pieces” to
our feely letter Qq.
*read the story The
Kindness Quilt and each decorated a paper quilt square to add to a class
quilt.
*learned the song 5 Little
Ducks and practiced making the /qu/ sound as it was sung and we subtracted our
ducks!
*read books about the life
cycle of a bee and created our own bee hives complete with eggs, lavae, pupae,
queen bee and worker bees. Can your child tell you the life cycle of a bee?
*pretended to be bees
collecting pollen and necter and learned how honey is made. Can your
child tell you how bees make honey? (We used sweets to be nectar and cheezels
to be orange pollen, and the cuties had bee finger puppets to dive in and get
the goods J)
*watched Magic School Bus
in the Bee Hive as a treat! (The children loved it…have your child tell you
about it!)
*used hexagon blocks as
cells and created a “buzzing beehive” to focus on shapes as well as how insects
work in a colony.
*painted pictures of bees
and insects and talked about the number of various body parts they have.
*used alphabet stamps to
sound out some simple words.
*Made insects with pattern
blocks and graphed how many pattern blocks we used for our insects.
*practiced writing our name
in lowercase letters.
*made AB, AABB, ABC
patterns with insects of all kinds.
*had bee costumes in our
dramatic play (the cuties LOVED this!)
There were a lot of bees buzzing around.
(And I loved hearing the vocabulary being used by the kiddos! Entomologist, honey, thorax….it was so much
fun!)
*looked at an actual honeycomb
and then spread honey on bread to eat…yum!
*Played an insect game
*Sang “Bringing home my
baby bumblebee and our other insect songs.
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK
We will introduce the
letter Ww, read books about and talk about Easter, and participate in some fun
Easter activities, as well as continuing with insects.
REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*There is a field trip permission form coming home in your child’s
zippy pouch today for Rapunzel. Please
sign the second page and return it to school—you can keep the front page for
your reference at home. Please make sure
if there are any changes in contact information etc that you go onto the SAS
website—I can’t change that information for you.
*Check the blog for
pictures from this week!
Some dates to keep in
mind for the rest of the year…. More
details to follow on many of them, but mark your calendars!
*Wednesday, April 9th: LATE START—School starts at 10:00am (and
Alternate Dress Day)
*Friday, April 18th: Good
Friday—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, April 24th: FIELD TRIP to see Rapunzel
*Tuesday, April 29th: Teacher
Appreciation Day J YAY! J
*Thursday, May 1st: Labor Day—NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, May 8th: FIELD TRIP to Sungei Buloh
*Tuesday, May 13th: Vesak
Day—NO SCHOOL
*Friday, May 16th: PORTFOLIO SHARE 8:15-9:15
*Friday, May 23rd: Parent
Tea and Sing a Long
*Thursday, June 5th: Last Day of School!—11:30 dismissal
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