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
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
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
Dear families,
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
