Next Thursday is our Field Trip to the Noble Horse Theater! Permission slips and money were due today, Friday, December 10. Ms. Juanita will be calling the final numbers in on Monday. Please submit your permission slip and money on Monday morning!!!
The children are looking forward to seeing this spectacular event. Thank you for those that have volunteered to accompany us. Please remember to pack a lunch for your child to bring with us. We will eat after the show at the theater. Please remember to have your child wear their Roycemore T-shirt for the field trip! We will return to Roycemore at 1:30.
Outside Information and Life Lessons for Cold Weather!
We will go outside when the weather is above 20 degrees! It is very important that the children in JK get a break in both their morning activities and their afternoon activities. We will be taking the children outside to play on most days. Some days, like all activities, it might take us longer getting our gear on but our goal is to keep working on this skill during the winter months. Zipping, buttoning, snapping, and tying are all important life skills to have:)
Please when you bring your child into the room, instruct your child to put their hat, gloves, and scarves in the sleeve of their coat. Instruct them to hang up their snow pants and jackets on the hook inside their cubby. Please instruct your child to put their indoor shoes on and leave their boots near their cubbies. These routines established in the morning will help us get organized for our outside activities!
Fairy Tales Galore!
The children are looking forward to seeing this spectacular event. Thank you for those that have volunteered to accompany us. Please remember to pack a lunch for your child to bring with us. We will eat after the show at the theater. Please remember to have your child wear their Roycemore T-shirt for the field trip! We will return to Roycemore at 1:30.
Outside Information and Life Lessons for Cold Weather!
We will go outside when the weather is above 20 degrees! It is very important that the children in JK get a break in both their morning activities and their afternoon activities. We will be taking the children outside to play on most days. Some days, like all activities, it might take us longer getting our gear on but our goal is to keep working on this skill during the winter months. Zipping, buttoning, snapping, and tying are all important life skills to have:)
Please when you bring your child into the room, instruct your child to put their hat, gloves, and scarves in the sleeve of their coat. Instruct them to hang up their snow pants and jackets on the hook inside their cubby. Please instruct your child to put their indoor shoes on and leave their boots near their cubbies. These routines established in the morning will help us get organized for our outside activities!Please label all of your child's things with their name on the inside. We are mixing lots of their clothing up because their things look similar!
The children need to bring the proper outside attire to school everyday.
Indoor shoes
Snow pants
snow boots
snow jacket
snow mittens or gloves
scarf
hat
These are things the children will change into! We are teaching them the order to put their clothes on. Please talk it over with your child at home and instill in them independence getting themselves dressed.
First, get all of your outdoor gear to your sit upon (or one open space).
Second, take off your indoor shoes.
Third, put on your snow pants.
Fourth, put on your snow boots.
Fifth, put on your snow jacket.
Sixth, put on your snow mittens or gloves.
Seventh, put on your scarf.
Eighth, put on your hat.
Finally, you are ready to go outside!
When we come in from outside, we encourage the following steps and we have opened up the cubby areas so the children have space for their things.
First, take off your snow boots near the cubbies and tables.
Second, leave your snow boots near your cubby.
Third, go to your sit upon and take off your gear.
Fourth, gloves, hats, and scarves go in their coat sleeves so we can find them the next time!
Fifth, put on your indoor shoes.
Sixth, take your things and hang them on the hooks in your cubby.
Fairy Tales Galore!
We continued on with our fairy tale unit this week. We have been having so much fun reading different versions of The Three Little Pigs. One version in our Five Minute Fairy Tales book and one version by Steven Kellogg. Even though these versions were very different, the children found the foundation of the stories were similar. We made a Venn Diagram comparing these two stories. The next day we read another version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children were experts comparing these two stories. Then they enjoyed retelling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with Teddy Grahams and an activity page. (Some enjoyed the tasty treat and some glued their Teddy Grahams to their paper!) The children have been enjoying "Fairy Tale Land" in the balcony of the classroom. They have been exploring with masks(both homemade and pre-made), and puppets retelling the stories that they have
heard over the past couple of weeks. The children also have been excited to watch the beans sprout and we are looking forward to witnessing our first beanstalks!
heard over the past couple of weeks. The children also have been excited to watch the beans sprout and we are looking forward to witnessing our first beanstalks!
We read two versions of The Gingerbread Man this week. The children were actively involved in the readings repeating the familiar text and using their comparison skills to say that is different or that is the same as the other story. We played a rhyming game. Also, the children are predicting what might have happened to the Gingerbread Man if he would have gone into the river and swam across by himself and not with the Fox that ended up eating him.
Next week, we will put on our scientific hats and test our theories! We plan on reading more gingerbread tales next week and at the end of the week we will build gingerbread houses.
In the math center, the children measured beanstalks with unifix cubes. starting at the bottom of the beanstalks to the top, then counting out how many unifix cubes high each stalk was.
In the Language Arts center, the children learned about "popcorn words" and the game Blast Off! Popcorn words are words that the children will see "pop-up" in books as they read. The game Blast Off is a great kinesthetic game to help the children read, spell, and recognize popcorn words. Have your child practice the game Blast off with our words, "and, you." At the end of each spelling you say, Blast off! Then you jump as high as you can. We read a story titled, My Dog and searched for our popcorn words in the story after we read. The stories that we are reading in Language Arts Center are full of text that matches the pictures in the story.
In the art center the children worked on fairy tale finger puppets. They had templates to cut, glue, and color. Following these simple steps helped develop their fine motor skills and listening skills. Following one to three step directions is a task that we will work on throughout JK.
The students were able to choose between Leap Pad or the computers this week in the Independent center. They are learning to track words while listening along on the Leap Pad games and they are working on their phonics skills and math skills on the computers.
We celebrated Harry's birthday on Wednesday! Happy Birthday Harry and thanks for the yummy cupcakes:)
Seventh Grade Reading Buddies Returned today!
A Peek Ahead
Next week we will finish up the centers that we did not get to this week. Your child will be measuring a bean stalk, reading a sight word book, creating a finger puppet, writing letters in flour, or working on the computer on Monday or Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday centers will be focused on Language Arts, Independent, and Math. Because it is a week with a field trip we will not have centers on Thursday.
During Free Choice in the mornings, I have been able to read and work with children individually or in small groups to strengthen their reading skills. I plan to keep this up during their independent center work on Wednesday and Friday and also in the mornings all week.
Please have your child to school on time everyday but especially on Thursday. We need to be loading the buses at 9:15. You will need to pack a lunch for your child with his/her name on it.
We will be exploring the Gingerbread books all next week and also reading books based on the Nut Cracker. On Friday, we will be making Gingerbread Houses to take home! Please make sure that your child's house goes home or we will have to throw it out.
Thank you for enriching our kids and having them participate in so many wonderful, various activities every day. Some real adorable pics from Harry's celebration!
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