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
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
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
