This is the last week of our gingerbread unit, and our last week before vacation. This week we will be comparing different spinoffs of The Gingerbread Man, including The Gingerbread Baby, and The Gingerbread Girl. Here are the books we will be reading.
Monday Speech group, OT group Tuesday Sequencing the story of the gingerbread man, counting buttons on the gingerbread man Wednesday Tracing the Gingerbread Man's tracks, making a snowman Thursday Comparing gingerbread man stories, cooking a gingerbread man Friday Speech group, Daily Living Skills group
Check out what our elf did this week!!
On Tuesday Eddie the Elf hung out on our door!
On Wednesday Eddie the Elf painted a picture of Santa in our easel!
Don't forget about our Holiday party this Wednesday at 10:45!
This week we are starting our Gingerbread Unit. On Tuesday, an Elf On the Shelf will be visiting the Barnyard Buddies...I wonder what kinds of silly things he will do when he's here! This week we are exploring different renditions of books that have the same story line and comparing and contrasting characters, plot, and endings. Here are the books we will be reading.
Monday Speech group, OT group, 1:1 Tuesday Using big and small lines and curves to make letters, lacing gingerbread men Wednesday Gingerbread crayon rubbings, matching letters on gingerbread men Thursday Matching dot stickers to numbers, gingerbread man puzzle Friday Speech group, daily living skills
This will be the last week of our Friends Unit. This week we will review what we have learned about; including what is a friend, how to be a good friend, and what kinds of words we can use to talk to and play with our friends. Here are the books we will be reading.
Monday Speech Group, OT group, 1:1 Tuesday Matching rhyming pictures, placing numerals 1-5 in sequential order Wednesday Adding and subtracting manipulatives, sequencing families smallest to largest Thursday Cutting shapes, decorating a pinata Friday Speech Group, Daily Living Skills
Dear Families, Given the shortened schedules these past few weeks, we have just finished our first week's worth of work from our Friends Unit. We drew pictures of what we like to share with our friends and put them together to make a friendship quilt, we practiced 1:1 correspondence by counting bears, making a pretend pizza, matched number to quantity, made our own fruits puzzle, sequenced the story of The Little Red Hen, and made AB patterns. Here's what we will be reading this week.
Monday Speech group, OT group, 1:1 Tuesday Counting apples and matching numbers, making fruit for our class cornucopia Wednesday Rhythm sticks, making turkeys Please note that Wednesday is a half day. Full day students will be going home at 11:30 on Wednesday with all of the other students. They will still get picked up and dropped of by the school bus. If you have any questions, please let me know. -The Barnyard Buddies
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Dear families, This is the last week of our Families Unit! We will be finishing up our unit activities and doing some fun Halloween activities. We planted pumpkin seeds a few weeks ago, and learned about how we take care of things to make them grow, so we'll check on Halloween to see if our pumpkins grew. This week we will be reading Big Pumpkin, The Little Old Lady who was not afraid of Anything, and Corduroy.
Monday OT group, Speech group Tuesday Matching numbers to quantity, 5 little pumpkins activity Wednesday Decorating pumpkins (if they grow) ; ) matching rhyming pictures Thursday Exploring changing leaves, creating clothes for corduroy Friday Speech group, Daily Living Skills group A few things:
Please remember to send your child to school in appropriate clothing; including a winter coat every day, and hat, gloves, and boots when applicable. We go outside first thing in the morning so, even though it may get warmer later on in the day, it's still pretty cold when we are out there.
Wednesday is Halloween, and the Burlington Early Childhood Center is having a pajama party, so please send your child to school in their pajamas to celebrate!
Sign language is a big part of our classroom. Please check out our new sign language blog (click on the tab at the top of the page) to learn about how, when, and why we use sign language in the classroom.
-The Barnyard Buddies
Monday, October 22, 2012
Dear families, This is the fourth week of our Family Unit. This week we are talking about where families live, and how some families are big, while others are small. In our books, some of the families live in apartments, while others live in houses, so we are comparing sizes of our families and talking about where we live. This week we will be reading Whistle for Willie, Corduroy, and Noisy Nora. Monday- OT group, speech group Tuesday- Sequence a pumpkin growing story, making a pumpkin patch Wednesday- Matching colors, alphabet bingo Thursday- 5 Little pumpkins picture, making clothes for corduroy Friday- Speech group, Daily Living Skills Next Wednesday, on 10/31 (Halloween) we will have a pajama party at school!! Please send your child to school in their pajamas and appropriate footwear for the school day. -The Barnyard Buddies
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Dear families, We're on the third week of our Family Unit. This week we are learning about how our families make us feel and how to get our family's attention by using our words, instead of using inappropriate behaviors (throwing toys, screaming, hitting, running away, etc.) This week we will be reading Noisy Nora, Peter's Chair, and Mouse Paint.
Monday OT inclusion, Speech group, 1:1 Tuesday Planting a pumpkin seed, Mixing primary colors to make secondary colors Wednesday Planting a pumpkin seed, Matching sounds in film canisters Thursday Matching colors, Sorting items that babies and "big kids" need Friday Speech, Daily Living skills Don't forget to check out our "Pictures" tab to see your child and the rest of our class hard at work! -The Barnyard Buddies
This is our second week learning about families. This week we will be talking about the roles of different family members and how families change when a new baby comes. Here are the books we will be reading this week.
We often reread books during our units, each time focusing on a different piece of literacy. On our first read, we read the story verbatim, so that the students can hear the fluency and tone of text, use picture cues and foreshadowing in the text to make predictions about what will happen next, as well understanding the story line and develop concepts of beginning, middle, and end. The second read is for students to participate in, looking at the pictures to retell the story in their own words, as well as reiterating important parts of the story line and relate our concepts of the week to the stories. The third read is to talk about the feelings of the characters, how those feelings develop and change over the course of the story, and how situations change how a character feels. Monday- OT group, speech group Tuesday- Matching animal babies to their parents, sequencing Peter's Chair Wednesday- Coloring houses and adding family members Thursday- Planting a pumpkin seed, making birthday cakes to reflect our age Friday- Speech group, daily living skills -The Barnyard Buddies
Dear Families, This week we are starting our Family unit. This week we will be reading Oonga Boonga, Peter's Chair, and Mouse Paint. We will be talking about what is a family, how all families look different, and we will graph and compare our own families. Monday- OT group, 1:1, speech group Tuesday- Family Bingo, matching letters of our names Wednesday- Graphing our family members, rhythm sticks Thursday- *Handwriting Without Tears* program, matching numbers 1-5 Friday- Speech, Daily Living Skills -The Barnyard Buddies
Dear Families, This is our third week of school, and our second week learning about farms. This week we are talking about what a garden is, comparing the similarities and differences between gardens and farms, and learning about how products get from the farm/garden to the store, and then from the store to our houses. Here are our books for the week. Monday- OT group, 1:1, Speech group Tuesday- Decorating apples, sequencing a chick hatching story Wednesday- Counting farm animals, sorting apples by color Thursday- Sorting big and small apples, making apple trees Friday- Speech group, Daily living skills -The Barnyard Buddies
Dear Families, We are in our second week of school, and for the next two weeks we will be learning about farms. The concepts this week are; What is a farm, What are farms for, and why some animals live on a farm. We will be reading Eddie's Garden and Farmer Duck. Work for the week: Monday 1:1 work, OT group & identifying "different" in an array of three & speech group Tuesday All about me graph (large group activity) & cutting paper to decorate pigs Wednesday Color and shape ID activity & using tripod grasp to color and crinkle paper to decorate apples Thursday Sorting animals that do and do not live on a farm & sorting red, green, and yellow apples Friday Speech group & Daily Living skills (using utensils) -The Barnyard Buddies
Dear Parents, We had a great first week of school! This week was spent getting to know our friends and learning about what the routines and expectations are at school. We read The Kissing Hand and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. We did some informal assessments at work time to see where are skills are at cutting, matching and labeling colors and shapes, sorting groups by attribute, writing grasp, dominant hand, name recognition, and matching letters. We record current performances in all of these areas, so that when we plan future lessons, we are able to differentiate instruction more appropriately to address the individual needs of all of the students. Here is our class schedule: 8:25-8:40 Arrival time 8:40-9:00 Playground 9:00-9:10 Bathroom 9:10-9:30 Work time 9:30-10:00 Choice time 10:00-10:15 Circle time 10:15-10:35 Snack time 10:35-10:45 Story time 10:45-11:05 Small groups 11:05-11:25 Music 11:25-11:30 Dismissal We have two work times during the day, one "work time" and one "small group". Small groups are lessons derived from our OWL curriculum (Opening the World of Learning). Work time can be, but is not always related to the curriculum. We use work time to provide consistent exposure to fundamental skills such as cutting, gluing, sorting, matching, number ID and rote counting, one to one correspondence, name identification and writing, and letter work. If you have any questions about our schedule or any other school matter, please do not hesitate to contact me at conroy@bpsk12.org. -The Barnyard Buddies
Monday, March 19, 2012
Dear families,
We are halfway through our Community Helpers unit. Last week we practiced one to one correspondence by matching letters and mailboxes, we made houses for our block area, we worked on letter sound identification and initial sound isolation by matching pictures about mail carriers, we colored Corduroy pictures and cut out fabric to make clothes for him, and we made stationary and wrote letters to a classmate.
Here's what we are reading this week
Small groups
Monday: Painting teeth Speech group Story sequencing Tuesday: Writing community names and isolating/matching initial sounds Sequencing A Pocket For Corduroy Wednesday: Sounding out words from word family -AT Firefighter positional book Thursday: Making a mouth Tracing/cutting/matching circles Friday: Oral Motor group Name writing
- Barnyard Buddies
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Dear Families,
We are on our last week of our Winter unit. Here's what we did this week.
Mitten Trees and Penguins Hibernating Bears
This week we will be learning about symmetry and how to measure things (temperature and size).
Small Groups
Monday- Making hot cocoa (OT) Egg carton penguin Tuesday- Mitten Painting Window snow scene Wednesday- Measuring Temperatures Tracing tracks in the snow Thursday- Coffee filter snowflakes Measuring snowmen with unifix cubes Friday- Oral Motor Group Lacing snowflakes
-The Barnyard Buddies
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Dear Families,
We are currently in the fourth week of our Winter unit. This week we are learning about animals that hibernate and migrate and what happens when the snow melts. Here are the books we will be reading this week.
Small Groups
Monday- Counting clothes Decorating hot cocoa pictures (OT) Tuesday- Making caves for hibernating bears Decorating tree for winter Wednesday- Counting winter items Matching tracks in the snow Thursday- Decorating snowflakes (OT) Mitten experiment Friday- Oral motor group Sorting winter objects by color
If the temperature outside is 25 degrees or above, we will go outside. Please remember to send your child to school in appropriate winter clothing; including winter coats, gloves, hat, and boots, even if the temperature reads below 25 degress at the drop-off time. Our playground time is usually at 8:40; at this time in the year it is often too cold to go outside at this time, so we will try to get outside at 11:10.
