Dear families,

We have finished our Shadows and Reflections Unit.  This week we will be starting our Things that Grow Unit.  We will begin by talking about what "growing" means, why some things grow and others don't, and discussing and identifying the differences between a living thing and a non-living thing.  Here's what we will be reading.

  

Small Groups

Monday         Speech group, OT group
Tuesday        Sorting vegetables that grow above and under ground, planting
                                 flowers
Wednesday   Sorting what plants and people need to grow in a Venn Diagram,
                                identifying differences in flowers
Thursday      Making pretend vegetable soup, growing beans in our own
                                "greenhouses"
Friday          Daily living skills group, speech group

Even though the weather is getting warmer, our playground time is early in the morning, and it's still pretty cool out at that time, so please continue to send your child in with a coat.  Thank you. 

Shannon

Dear Families,

We have finished our Color Unit and are now learning about shadows and reflections.  In this unit we will be identifying what shadows and reflections are and experimenting with materials and light to make shadows and reflections.  Here's what we'll be reading.

  

Small Groups

Monday                 Speech group, OT group
Tuesday                 Making shadow pictures by putting toys on paper and leaving
                                    them outside, experimenting with different materials to see
                                    which ones are "reflectors" of light
Wednesday           Making stained glass letters, going on a shadow walk outside
Thursday              Making tally charts to count animals we see in our storybooks,
                                     making sidewalk chalk silhouettes
Friday                   Speech group, Daily Living skills group


-The Barnyard Buddies

Dear Families,

This is the last week of our Color Unit.  This week we will be exploring the colors in our environment.  Often, we talk about colors in specific contexts, such as reading books about colors or identifying colored clothing.  This week we are learning about how colors are all around us.  We will walk around outside and inside, finding different colors in and around our school, and we are making a class book about colors.  Here's what we'll be reading. 

   


Small groups

Monday            Speech group, OT group
Tuesday            Rainbow puzzle, going on a "color hunt" outside
Wednesday       Making collages for our color book, tracing color words
Thursday           Making letters with lines and curves, sorting different colors
Friday               Speech group, Daily Living Skills group

Don't forget about Picture Day next week, 3/19!

-The Barnyard Buddies

Dear families,

We're in the fourth week of our Colors Unit.  This week we will be experimenting with mixing primary colors to get secondary colors.  Here are the books we will be reading.

   

Small Groups

Monday           Speech group, OT group
Tuesday           Identifying the color that's "different", Color Bingo
Wednesday     Making our own crayons, rhythm sticks
Thursday         Mixing primary playdoh to get secondary colors, painting with
                                kool-aid
Friday              Speech group, Daily Living Skills

-The Barnyard Buddies

Dear families,

I hope everyone had a great vacation.  We've just started our Color Unit.  We will be exploring primary and secondary colors, mixing colors, and observing the colors in our environment.  Here are the books we'll be reading.
   

Small groups

Monday         Speech group, OT group
Tuesday        Painting fruits with kool-aid, writing a story about Dog's spots
Wednesday   Mixing primary colors book, color by number
Thursday       Exploring symmetry with butterfly wings, adding and subtracting bears
Friday            Speech group, daily living skills


-The Barnyard Buddies

Dear families,
 
We are on the last week of our Wind and Water unit.  This week we are learning about repetition in the weather, including the four seasons cycle and which kinds of weather are seen in what seasons and why.  Here's what we will be reading.
 
   

Small Groups

Monday         Speech group, OT group
Tuesday        Making balloons in the wind picture, sorting things that move in
                              the wind
Wednesday   Snowman tangram, painting objects in the clouds
Thursday       Absorbtion experiment, eye dropper snowflakes
Friday            Speech group, Daily living skills group


-Barnyard Buddies

Dear families,

We are on our fourth week of our Wind and Water unit.  For the past two weeks, we have learned about different kinds of weather and what they look like.  This week we are learning about seasons and how temperatures change with different seasons.  Here is what we'll be reading.

  

Small Groups

Tuesday           Measuring temperatures with thermometers, painting Peter from
                             The Snowy Day with Epsom salt
Wednesday      Lacing mittens, molding clay into shapes and creating a snowman
Thursday          Eye dropper snowflakes, putting together cover and pages to
                              create a book
Friday              Speech group, Daily Living Skills group

-The Barnyard Buddies