We have had another wonderful week in the Yellow
Starfish classroom!!!! We celebrated
Jimmy’s birthday on Wednesday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMMY!) and also had our first
library day with Ms. Jo!
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 finger painted with
the three primary colors. Can your child tell you what they are?
*the kiddos were SO INTERESTED in mixing colors
I decided to do a fun experiment with them—exploding colors! Ask your cutie to tell you about it!
*read the book “Silly Sally” and realized both words start
with S! This led to an amazing conversation
and discovery that the words are very similar to the letters in SAS…our
school!!!! One of our cuties had the
idea to go on a hunt to find SAS, and the kiddos ended up finding lots of
them!!!!!
*our wonder of letters continued—some of us made name
necklaces out of beads, some stamped letters into playdoh, some found different
letters in books and we read the book Smelly Socks!
*we went on from this to learn the sound,
formation, and hand motion for the letter Ss.
*learned the poem “I Am Special” and drew a
picture of ourselves on the poem
*we had a lot of building going on this
week! We had a group that moved from
legos, to magnatiles, to blocks to castle blocks!
*we continued to talk about ourselves and how we
are alike and different.
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 (in case your child was talking about something you didn’t see.) Also, SONG BOOKS are coming home again, so be
sure to return those on Monday as well.
*Return Library books and RED LIBRARY BAG on Monday.
*ALTERNATE DRESS DAY on WEDNESDAY!!!
*NO SCHOOL NEXT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th
*Please send in a family photo if you have
not done so yet!
*Please make sure to send in healthy
snacks! J Chocolate and biscuits are good treats, but
don’t give us the brain food and energy we need for our learning. Thanks!
Have
a wonderful weekend!
Lynsey J
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