Dear Families,

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break!  We've just finished our Friends Unit, and for the three weeks before winter break we will be talking about Fairy Tales.  On the Thursday before winter break (December 20th) we will also be having a holiday show.  Notices will go home this coming week.  It will be an opportunity for family members, grandparents, or siblings to come and watch us perform a few songs and do a craft together.  Our show songs will be 10 Little Fingers, Peanut Butter and Jelly, and The Wheels on the Bus.  These are also the songs we will be singing during music time for the next three weeks.

Here's what we will be reading this week



Choice Time

Red Table                Matching letters on castle turrets
Yellow Table           Using eye droppers and water to make "peas"
Green Table             Matching jewel shapes to crowns
Blue Table               Lacing "candy canes" with beads
Rug                         Cars and building ramps (STEM)
Block Area              Lincoln Logs
Dramatic Play         Ice Cream shop
Sensory Table         Alphabet Soup
Easel                        Watercolor painting crowns and dragons


Small Groups

Monday                  Sorting big, medium, and small items
Tuesday                  Gingerbread alphabet match book
Wednesday             Finishing gingerbread alphabet match book
Thursday                Stone Soup-matching shapes
Friday                     Designing a house for the three little pigs




-The Barnyard Buddies

Dear Families,

Just a reminder that this Monday, 11/12, there will be no school due to Veteran's Day.  School will resume as usual on Tuesday.  A note will go home this week regarding the time for your parent conference on 11/29.  A second reminder will go out on the 28th. 

We are in the second week of our Friends Unit.  This week we will be talking about who are friends are and how we make friends.  Here's what we will be reading this week.



Small Groups
Tuesday       Sorting good and bad friend choices (behavior)
Wednesday  Snipping paper with scissors to make a feather
Thursday     Friendship flower petals
Friday         Match and lace a pocket for Corduroy


Choice Time
Red Table          Matching friends to their names in print
Blue Table         Geoboards
Yellow Table     Apple prints
Green Table      Making patterns with leaves
Rug                   Raking leaves
Block Area       Foam blocks
Dramatic Play  Pizza Shop
Sensory            Rainbow rice

Music
We have new music out for our new unit.  Here are the songs we will be singing.

BINGO
5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
10 Fat Turkeys book by Tony Jonston
Pumpkin Patch
Friends Forever by Greg and Steve
The Acorn Song



-The Barnyard Buddies