Thursday, 22 January 2015

Friday Update January 23

January 23, 2015
                                                
Dear Parents,
We have had another exciting and fun week of learning in the yellow starfish classroom!  We celebrated Savanna’s 5th birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAVANNA!) visited with the AMAZING author and illustrator Todd Parr, and continued with nursery rhymes.

The cuties wanted me to give you this link to One Direction singing about the letter U.  (They love their beautiful song, so of course they love this one!) You can also just type in Sesame Street letter U into Youtube. J

Here are some things that happened this week. We…
*learned the sound, hand motion and letter formation for the letter Uu.
*added umbrellas to our feely letter Uu.
*brainstormed words that began with Uu and added them to our alphabet journals.
*moved little umbrellas up and down to practice the sound.

*we started learning about Chinese New Year and made red/gold lanterns for good luck (2 each! J)
*continued with our Nursery Rhymes, which included Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Hickory Dickory Dock, The Muffin Man, Humpty Dumpty and many more. J
*painted a picture of cherry blossoms
*practiced our Nursery Rhymes and acted them out
*had fun in our new outside centers with water and sand!
*explored shells, magnets, rice, and some 3D shapes (rectangular prisms and cylinders) just for fun.
*had an AMAZING time with Todd Parr—he read many of his books to us (the favorite of course was his “UNDERWEAR” book! He showed us how he draws his illustrations, and then we got a chance to try ourselves!!!!  An absolutely wonderful author visit!
*made pattern necklaces
*used ABC stickers to try and spell out simple words for fun
*we also had some good quality time with Mango and Jelly J

VIP CALENDAR
Let me know what dates work for you to come in!  I sent the calendar home last week.

NEXT WEEK
Next week we will be looking at the letter F, we will be starting our unit on Fairy Tales, and be learning about Chinese New Year.

REMINDERS/INFORMATION
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS went home this week.  If you are ordering books, please send the orders back by next Thursday, January 29th.
*In library this week our cuties were able to check out TWO books! J  They will be able to check out two every week for the rest of the year.  Just have the books and red bag sent back every Monday.
*We are in need of large cereal type boxes to make Valentine mailboxes.  Please send in any donations. (Just a heads up J)
*Check the blog for pictures from this week!
  
Thank you!!!  Have a wonderful weekend!!!!  Lynsey and Aidah

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