We have had another wonderful week in the Yellow
Starfish classroom!!!!
One point of interest…I have watched your cuties
become more and more independent as the days have progressed! Really encourage
your child to practice being independent at home as well. Feeding themselves, starting to help dressing
themselves, doing up their bags, and also starting to practice things like
using safe scissors to cut will really help them out! J
This week we…
*read the book Mouse Paint (along with quite
a few others such as A Color of His Own, Dog’s Colorful Day, Little Rabbit’s
Color Book, and Pete the Cat (which has turned into a lot of singing! J) and learned the three
primary colors. Can your child tell you what they are?
*learned the Color Song and decorated a copy to
put in our Poems and Songs folder
*started the big task of sorting all of the
colors from our homework, discussing the different shades of each color and
creating color collages to decorate the room.
*practiced writing color words with “over-writer
markers”
*learned the sound, formation, and hand motion
for the letter Ss.
*drew pictures of words/cut out pictures of
words that start with Ss in our alphabet journals.
*added sparkly, silver/blue sand to our “feely
letter Ss”.
*read “S” books such as Smelly Socks and Silly
Sally.
*observed (with our sense of sight) a real snake
skeleton and drew a picture of it.
*played with snakes (pretend onesJ) in the sensory table
*wrote numbers on paper snakes and dotted the
correct number of dots to practice one to one correspondence
*learned the poem The Sandwich and made real and
paper sandwiches that are just like the ones in the poem!
*spread butter and jam on bread to make
sandwiches.
*cut out a long snake to hang from the ceiling
to practice our cutting
*made slime and played with it! EWWW! J Some of your cuties were
COVERED!!! Don’t worry—it easily washes off J
*worked with S pattern blocks
*learned the poem “I Am Special” and drew a
picture of ourselves on the poem
FEELY
LETTER RING
Today your child will bring home the first of
the 26 feely letters, letter Ss, attached to a ring. Please keep this
letter ring in a safe place (i.e. bed post, door knob, dresser handle). Each week a new letter will go home and your child should add
it to the ring and review the sound, motion and formation of all the letters.
NEXT WEEK
Next week we will introduce the letter Aa.
We will do lots of activities with the alphabet. We will revisit our colors and
All About Me and My Friends
LOOKING
AHEAD TO UN DAY
I wanted to give you advanced notice that the
ECC will celebrate UN activities from Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October.
On Friday, October 3rd, we will join the rest of the Primary school
for a UN Day assembly. On that day the children may wear an outfit from
their home country or a country in which they have lived or visited. Our
class would welcome any parents who would like to share information or do an activity
about their home country. This would be for our class only…you don’t have
to present to the entire ECC. I will send a separate e-mail/note home for this,
so keep on the lookout J.
ALL ABOUT
ME
This week we practiced learned specific
vocabulary for parts of the body. We played Simon Says using these names and
also sang Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes using different parts of the
body. We are concentrating on those parts of the body that we might not
normally be familiar with: forehead,
eyebrows, eyelashes, chin, earlobes, biceps, elbows, wrists, knuckles, abdomen,
chest, thighs, waist, knees, ankle, and heel. Give
your child a butterfly kiss with your eyelashes, just for fun (just flutter
them against their cheek or arm! They will love it!)
REMINDERS
*Check in your child’s Friday Folder (the BLUE BAG) take everything out and return bag back to school on
Monday. We keep certain
projects/activities here at school to put in your child’s portfolio.
*Return Library books and RED LIBRARY BAG on Monday.
*ALTERNATE DRESS DAY on WEDNESDAY!!!
*Please make sure you have the lunch menus back
by each Friday (we always send them out on Monday—by that next Friday have them
back to us) even if your child is having home lunch every day. Keep half at home for reference
WE HAVE LOTS OF PHOTOS THIS WEEK, SO BE SURE TO LOOK AT BOTH SLIDE
SHOWS!!!!!!
Have
a wonderful weekend!
Lynsey and Aidah J
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