Dear Families,

We are in our third week of our Family Traditions Unit.  Just a reminder that this upcoming week is a short week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.  We will have school on Monday and Tuesday.  Wednesday is a half day, so only the morning session will attend.  Thursday and Friday there is no school.  If  you haven't already, please return the conference form in your child's backpack if you would like to sign up for a conference on November 30th.  On Wednesday the 23rd, I will send home a confirmation of your conference time.

This past week we sequenced by size, built a house out of shapes, matched rhyming word families, practiced our vertical line strokes, counted syllables, and made a Venn diagram to compare some of our storybooks.  Here's what we will be reading this week.




Choice Time

Rug                      Dollhouses
Block Area           Bristle blocks
Dramatic play       Laundry
Red Table             Spelling family words
Green Table          Lucky Ducks game
Blue Table            Size puzzles
Yellow Table        Making kites and flying them in the wind
Sensory Table      Cake "frosting"
Books


Small Groups

Monday          10 Little Turkeys Counting book
Tuesday          Sorting book families and matching colored feathers
Wednesday     Feathered turkey plates


Have a great holiday!!
-Shannon

Dear Families,

This is the first week of our Family Traditions Unit.  We will be talking about holidays and family traditions that we celebrate in our homes.  We will read books about traditions such as birthday parties, Diwali, Thanksgiving, and Sunday feasts, and we will read about different kinds of families; some who have siblings, some who are only children or have new babies, and/or pets.  Here's what we will be reading.

  


Small Groups

Monday         Practicing AB or AAB patterns with pictures from Carp for Kimiko
Tuesday         Making our names into Pumpkin patches
Wednesday    Matching paintbrush colors to the colors of chairs


Choice Time

Large Rug         Picking apples from our "orchard"
Block area        Building with wooden blocks
Dram. play       Babies
Red Table         Dot marker fish
Blue Table       Mr. Potato Head
Green Table     Alphabet tubs
Yellow Table   Matching animal babies to mothers
Sensory            Sand


Just a reminder that there is no school this Thursday, 11/9 and this Friday 11/10 for Professional Development and Veteran's Day. 

-The Barnyard Buddies