Dear families,

We are halfway through our Community Helpers unit.  Last week we practiced one to one correspondence by matching letters and mailboxes, we made houses for our block area, we worked on letter sound identification and initial sound isolation by matching pictures about mail carriers, we colored Corduroy pictures and cut out fabric to make clothes for him, and we made stationary and wrote letters to a classmate. 

Here's what we are reading this week
   

Small groups

Monday:       Painting teeth
                      Speech group
                      Story sequencing
Tuesday:       Writing community names and isolating/matching initial sounds
                      Sequencing A Pocket For Corduroy
Wednesday:   Sounding out words from word family -AT
                      Firefighter positional book
Thursday:      Making a mouth
                      Tracing/cutting/matching circles 
Friday:           Oral Motor group
                      Name writing


- 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

Dear Families,

We are currently in the fourth week of our Winter unit.  This week we are learning about animals that hibernate and migrate and what happens when the snow melts.  Here are the books we will be reading this week.
    

Small Groups

Monday-       Counting clothes
                    Decorating hot cocoa pictures (OT)
Tuesday-      Making caves for hibernating bears
                    Decorating tree for winter
Wednesday- Counting winter items
                    Matching tracks in the snow
Thursday-     Decorating snowflakes (OT)
                    Mitten experiment
Friday-         Oral motor group
                    Sorting winter objects by color

If the temperature outside is 25 degrees or above, we will go outside.  Please remember to send your child to school in appropriate winter clothing; including winter coats, gloves, hat, and boots, even if the temperature reads below 25 degress at the drop-off time.  Our playground time is usually at 8:40; at this time in the year it is often too cold to go outside at this time, so we will try to get outside at 11:10. 


- The Barnyard Buddies

Dear Families,


Our first two week of our farm/harvest unit went well.  We planted "pumpkin" seeds, counted farm animals, organized apples in ascending order, made apple trees, played a BINGO game with vegetables, made AB farm animal patterns, used different materials to texture farm animals, and made tissue paper apples for our bulliten board. 

This week in our farm/harvest unit, we will make apple pizza, play a farm animal memory game, experiment and graph an apple taste test, sort objects that do and do not belong on the farm, and conduct a heavy/light experiment with different farm related items. 

If you haven't already done so, please send in the permission slip for our farm field trip on October 20th.  Thank you!

-The Barnyard Buddies

Dear families,


We had a great second week of school!  We finished up our "All About Me" unit and created books about each child, so we can read them in our library area for the next few weeks. 

On Monday we'll be starting our Farm/Harvest unit.  This week we will learn what a garden is, what a farm is, and what kind of work needs to be done on a garden/farm. 


Here are the books we will be reading

                                               


Small groups

Making apple trees
                  matching number to quantity
                  OT- using pincer grasp to crinkle and glue tissue paper
Planting a garden
                  using common garden tools to create and tend to a plant
Sorting Apples
                  sorting red, green, and yellow apples by color
                  counting apple groups and recording most and least
Sequencing life cycle of a plant
                  learning plant related vocabulary
                  practicing the pre-literacy skill of organizing the sequence of a story
Apple Prints
                 exploring what's on the inside of an apple
                 creating apple prints on a letter A for our alphabet book
Sorting Apples
                 sorting apples by size (big, medium, and small)


If you haven't done so already, please send in the packet you recieved prior to the start of school.  It contains important information that is needed by the secretary and school nurse.  Thank you.

-The Barnyard Buddies

New School Year

Hi Parents,


Welcome to the Barnyard Buddies!  We are going to have a great school year. 


Here is our daily schedule:
8:30-9:00     Arrival/Playground
9:00-9:10     Bathroom
9:10-9:30     Circle Time
9:30-10:00   Choice Time
10:00-10:20 Work Time
10:20-10:40  Snack
10:40-10:50  Story Time
10:50-11:10  Small Group Work
11:10-11:25  Music
11:25-11:30  Dismissal

We had a great first week of school.  Everyone did a great job playing with friends and listening to teachers.  This week and next week we are working on "All About Me" books.  We will spend the next week finishing up our books and putting them in our library so we can learn about each other.  We talked about what we look like and graphed and counted similar characteristics, we drew self-portraits, made pictures of our house and made birthday cakes for how old we are. 

This week we will add our family members to our houses, make a frame for the cover of our books by creating AB patterns, and practice cutting and writing for our portfolios. 

Choice Time:

writing center: letter puzzles
math center: shape sorters
blue table: iPads
green table: puzzles
block area: "brick" blocks and chubby vehicles
library: "old favorites" books (Dr. Seuss, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
Rug: trains
sensory table: sand

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.  conroy@bpsk12.org

-The Barnyard Buddies

Dear families,

This week we are starting a new unit about health and hygiene.  For the next two weeks we will be talking about healthy foods; what kinds of foods are healthy and what they do for our bodies.  This week we will practice using our positional vocabulary words, sorting foods by category, counting healthy foods, making vegetable soup and sorting opposites.

               

Small groups
positional book
sorting healthy foods into colored bowls
counting fruits and matching them to a numeral
sorting healthy and unhealthy foods
making vegetable soup
matching opposites
lacing gumball machines


Choice time
library- books about health and hygiene
green table- Mr. Potato head and iPads
blue table- gears
white table- puzzles
circle rug- foam floor puzzles
block area- brick blocks
dramatic play- kitchen
sensory table- dirt
easel- markers and fruits/vegetables

 

 

 

- The Barnyard Buddies