Nursery Rhymes & Rhyming

This week our theme was “Nursery Rhymes & Rhyming”.  We learned about rhyming words and played a lot of rhyming games (keep practicing at home too)!  The children also made a picture of Humpty Dumpty & created a garden for Mary Mary Quite Contrary.  Our letter for the week was Nn and we reviewed the number 3.

Next week our theme will be “Dr. Seuss & Rhyming”.  We will continue to work with rhyming words as we read Dr. Seuss books.  The children will make the Cat in the Hat, paint a One-Fish Two-Fish fish bowl, make Cat hats and play a variety of rhyming games.  Our letter for the week will be Rr and we will review the number 4.

 Reminders & Updates:                 

*FBI Movie Event: (for those that signed up) Friday, February 27^th.

*Early Release: Tuesday, March 17^th

*No School: Monday, March 31^st (Inservice).

*Remember to take time and help your child through his or her homework to ensure they are practicing the skills correctly.

Arctic Animals

This week our theme was “Arctic Animals”.  The children made a polar bear, penguin and a walrus puppet.  We continued to work on name printing, counting, number identification, matching and sequencing.  Our letter for the week was Pp and we reviewed the number 2.

Next week our theme will be “Nursery Rhymes & Rhyming”.  We will learn about rhyming words and play a lot of rhyming games (it would be good to practice rhyming at home over the weekend as well).  The children will hear a variety of nursery rhymes and make a picture of Humpty Dumpty and create a garden for Mary Mary Quite Contrary!  Our letter for the week will be Nn and we will review the number 3.

As your child shares the work they’ve done at school and completes homework with you, please take note of any skills that they may be struggling with.  Additional practice of those skills at home will help them to learn and retain what are working on at school.

 Reminders & Updates:                                

*Magazine Fundraiser Sale: The last “turn in date” is February 25^th.  

*Families Being Involved Movie Event: Friday, February 27^th in the SES gym @ 1:15.

*Early Release Day: Tuesday, March 17^th.

Valentine's Day

This week our theme was “Valentine’s Day”.  We made several items out of hearts including a butterfly and a panda bear.  The children continued to work on number identification, matching, graphing and patterns. Our letter for the week was Vv and we began reviewing numbers again by starting over with the number 1.  A special thanks to everyone who sent in Valentines, we all had a wonderful time opening our cards!

 

Next week our theme will be “Arctic Animals”.  The children will be making a polar bear, walrus and penguin.  We will continue to work on counting, number identification, matching and sequencing.  We will review the number 2 and learn about the letter Pp. 

 Reminders & Updates:                 

*Early Release Day: Thursday, February 19^th.  Please send a note if your child needs to go somewhere other than their regular destination.

*No School: Friday, February 20^th.

*Magazine Fundraiser Sale: The next “turn in date” is February 18^th.  

*Remember to help your child practice any skills from our report card that they are still struggling with.  I will retest the children on all of those skills again in the next few weeks!

Dinosaurs

This week our theme continued to be ‘Dinosaurs’.  On Wednesday and Thursday we enjoyed our field trip to the Broadway Theater to see Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs!  We also made a classroom book about dinosaurs and created a dinosaur’s skeleton. We learned about the number 10 and our letter for the week was Oo.

Next week our theme will be ‘Valentine’s Day’.  We will be making several items out of hearts including a butterfly & and a panda bear!  The children will continue to work on matching, graphing and patterns. Our letter for the week will be Vv and we will focus on the number 1 again during our second round of number identification.  Please remember that your child can bring in their Valentine’s Day cards at any time before our party.  (If you choose to send a treat for the party is should be wrapped, as we won’t have time to eat everything).

 Reminders & Updates:                 

       *Valentine’s Day Party: Feb. 11^th OR Feb. 12^th.

*No School: Friday, Feb. 20^th

*Early Release Day: Feb. 19^th.

*Remember to help your child practice the skills from our report card that they are still struggling with.  We will test them on all of those skills again in the next few weeks!