April 17, 2015
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.) The students were
really into bees, so we focused on them this week. J
*SONG BOOKS ARE GOING HOME THIS
WEEK! Please sing some songs
with your child as they “point” to the words with their magic pointer and return the song books on Monday.
They don’t have to sing all
of the songs, and you are welcome to help them out at any point. 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.
*we made Queen and King
crowns.
*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?
*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 a “What is an
insect?” book.
*continued with “6 buzzing
bumblebees.”
*Made insects with pattern
blocks and graphed how many pattern blocks we used for our insects.
*practiced writing our name
in lowercase letters, and practiced writing our 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!)
*sang “Bringing home my
baby bumblebee and our other insect songs.
*we had Reading Buddies
with Ms. Derksen’s first grade class. We
loved hearing them read to us!
*had fun building
structures in the block room. A lot of
our cuties made insects and insect homes!
*we made yummy insect
cookies! (Not out of insects, but made to look like insects J)
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK
We will introduce the
letter Yy as well as continue with our insect unit.
Upcoming Dates and Things
to Remember:
*Return library books and blue bags on Monday.
*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 29th: FIELD
TRIP to Sungei Buloh (forms to
come home next week.)
*Friday, May 1st: Labor
Day—NO SCHOOL
*Monday, May 18th: LATE START—School starts at 10:00am
*Friday, May 22nd: PORTFOLIO SHARE and Parent/Child Sing a Long
*Tuesday, May 26th: Wet Day
*Thursday, May 28th: Magic Show
*Friday, May 29th: Kindergarten Visit
*Monday, June 1st: Vesak Day—NO SCHOOL
*Friday, June 5th: Last Day
of School!—11:30am dismissal
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