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Themes: This month we will celebrating the Fall harvest season. We have a huge tree up on the classroom bulletin board. The children will help make fall colored leaves and forest animals to decorate it. We will be painting with Fall colors, learning about all kinds of fruits and vegetables. We will also begin our weekly journals on Mondays. We will chat with each child and ask them to tell us a couple of events that they can remember from the most recent weekend. After this, each child is encouraged to draw a little picture with our help about their activities. These will be sent home in June.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making prints from rolling corncobs in paint, making stuffed paperbag pumpkins, and creating a silly scarecrow project.
Books: Some of the books for October include: Fall Leaves Fall, Johnny Appleseed, The Acorn and the Oak Tree, The Shy Scarecrow, as well as others relating to Fall and the harvest season.
Reminders: There is no school on Monday October 12th. We will be going on a fieldtrip on October 21rst to Becker Farms. Please dress your child for outside weather and in shoes or boots that are ok to get a little muddy if it is wet that week.
The Benefits of Integration: The children in this group participate fully throughout the daily schedule with their peers from the Play and Learn preschool. It is very exciting to observe the friendships developing within the group. We are noticing that all children benefit from accepting each others strengths and needs and a spirit of teamwork is the goal. There are four teachers, (Wende, Cynthia, Shira, and Julie) who collaborate on planning and leading groups throughout the day.
Daily Schedule: Arrival and Free play: Every morning as the children arrive and get settled with book bags and notebooks etc. they come in the room and are encouraged to choose an activity. The teachers select a variety of table toys to encourage pre academic skills. The teachers interact and supervise their play encouraging social skills, and assist in guiding them on learning counting, shapes, alphabet, etc. They have access to art supplies to work on their coloring and cutting during this time as well. The children are able to choose among three connected rooms during this play time with different choices available in each room.
Snack Time: At this time all the children share a snack together and practice their social and language skills as they sit together at the tables. As each child finishes and cleans up, they then choose a picture book to look at and relax until everyone is finished.
Circle Time: During circle time the children practice their counting skills as we briefly discuss the days of the week, the month and the weather for the day. Each child has opportunities to speak in front of the group as weather person, calendar person etc. throughout the month. Circle time is an excellent opportunity for the children to practice asking and answering questions relating to the topic.
We also introduce our weekly themes, review vocabulary, read a theme related book and discuss the art project for the day.
Project Time: As the children create theme related crafts, we are working on following directions, fine motor skills such as coloring, cutting, gluing, etc. The children take pride in their individual creations and project time gives us one more teaching opportunity related to our weekly concepts and vocabulary.
Gross Motor Time: At this time the children are encouraged to use their muscles to practice running, ball skills, bike riding and climbing on playground equipment. We have several different spaces to select for gross motor time including our gym, the playground and a room with large blocks and some climbing equipment.
Lunch: During lunch the children sit next to different friends each day and relax and chat with their peers. This is a good time to practice using our muscles to open all kinds of lunch products like pudding cups, yogurt, juice packs, etc. and asking for help when needed. The teachers sit with the children as well and encourage verbal interactions. The children clean up their leftovers, put their lunchboxes away and select a book or toy until everyone is finished.
Quiet Time: After lunch the children take a rest on their individual mats. Some of the students enjoy the short nap and seem to really need it after a busy day. For the children who are restless and not too tired, we set up quiet activities at the table to work on their goals and finish any projects etc. that are incomplete.
Special weekly groups: On Mondays we have dance with Miss Elizabeth. On Fridays the children have a movement class, Creative Kinections with Miss Colleen in the morning. We also have Show and Tell on Fridays when we try to have the children send in things to go with the letter of the week when possible.
SEPTEMBER 2009
Themes: This month we will making personal little books with the children with the theme “All About Me.” The children will be making book pages about their favorite toys/activities, their families, their pets, favorite books and favorite colors. We will also begin to talk about Fall.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making the individual book pages, making apple prints, and making a Fall collage from what we collect outside.
Books: Some of the books for September include: Pipo, the Puma, I Like Myself, If You Take a Mouse to School, Tucker’s Best School Day and of course many others relating to getting back to school, Fall and making new friends.
Reminders: There is no school on Monday,September 28th.
The Benefits of Integration: The children in this group participate fully throughout the daily schedule with their peers from the Play and Learn preschool. It is very exciting to observe the friendships developing within the group. We are noticing that all children benefit from accepting each others strengths and needs and a spirit of teamwork is the goal. There are four teachers, (Wende, Cynthia, Shira, and Julie) who collaborate on planning and leading groups throughout the day.
Daily Schedule: Arrival and Free play: Every morning as the children arrive and get settled with book bags and notebooks etc. they come in the room and are encouraged to choose an activity. The teachers select a variety of table toys to encourage pre academic skills. The teachers interact and supervise their play encouraging social skills, and assist in guiding them on learning counting, shapes, alphabet, etc. They have access to art supplies to work on their coloring and cutting during this time as well. The children are able to choose among three connected rooms during this play time with different choices available in each room.
Snack Time: At this time all the children share a snack together and practice their social and language skills as they sit together at the tables. As each child finishes and cleans up, they then choose a picture book to look at and relax until everyone is finished.
Circle Time: During circle time the children practice their counting skills as we briefly discuss the days of the week, the month and the weather for the day. Each child has opportunities to speak in front of the group as weather person, calendar person etc. throughout the month. Circle time is an excellent opportunity for the children to practice asking and answering questions relating to the topic.
We also introduce our weekly themes, review vocabulary, read a theme related book and discuss the art project for the day.
Project Time: As the children create theme related crafts, we are working on following directions, fine motor skills such as coloring, cutting, gluing, etc. The children take pride in their individual creations and project time gives us one more teaching opportunity related to our weekly concepts and vocabulary.
Gross Motor Time: At this time the children are encouraged to use their muscles to practice running, ball skills, bike riding and climbing on playground equipment. We have several different spaces to select for gross motor time including our gym, the playground and a room with large blocks and some climbing equipment.
Lunch: During lunch the children sit next to different friends each day and relax and chat with their peers. This is a good time to practice using our muscles to open all kinds of lunch products like pudding cups, yogurt, juice packs, etc. and asking for help when needed. The teachers sit with the children as well and encourage verbal interactions. The children clean up their leftovers, put their lunchboxes away and select a book or toy until everyone is finished.
Quiet Time: After lunch the children take a rest on their individual mats. Some of the students enjoy the short nap and seem to really need it after a busy day. For the children who are restless and not too tired, we set up quiet activities at the table to work on their goals and finish any projects etc. that are incomplete.
Special weekly groups: On Mondays we have dance with Miss Elizabeth. On Fridays the children have a movement class, Creative Kinections with Miss Colleen in the morning and a dance activity with Miss Dorothy. We also have Show and Tell on Fridays when we try to have the children send in things to go with the letter of the week when possible.
Miss Wende's Parent Letter - September 09
JULY and AUGUST 2009 Themes: This summer we will be focusing on social skills. Summer is a great time to practice making new friends, using good manners, expressing emotions appropriately, and learning how to solve conflicts with adult guidance. Some of our children will be starting kindergarten this coming Fall. It is my hope that reminding each other how to be nice to new friends and express one’s emotions will be the most productive six weeks of lessons we can offer before they move on.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making stuffed paper bag people puppets to use in dramatic play. The children will have a turn to play host/hostess to a “playdate” and we will be decorating paintings of houses. We will make snacks for each other and play group games to practice turn taking and sharing skills.
Books: Some of the books for the summer include:Following the Rules, Timothy Goes to School, Franklin’s New Friend, A Guest is a Guest, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, How are you Peeling, Yes Please, Sometimes I Like to Cry, and I Was So Mad.
Reminders: We will be celebrating Moving Up day on August 14th from 9:30-11:30.
The Benefits of Integration: The children in this group participate fully throughout the daily schedule with their peers from the Play and Learn preschool. It is very exciting to observe the friendships developing within the group. We are noticing that all children benefit from accepting each others strengths and needs and a spirit of teamwork is the goal. There are four teachers, (Wende, Cynthia, Shira, and Julie) who collaborate on planning and leading groups throughout the day.
Daily Schedule: Arrival and Free play: Every morning as the children arrive and get settled with book bags and notebooks etc. they come in the room and are encouraged to choose an activity. The teachers select a variety of table toys to encourage pre academic skills. The teachers interact and supervise their play encouraging social skills, and assist in guiding them on learning counting, shapes, alphabet, etc. They have access to art supplies to work on their coloring and cutting during this time as well. The children are able to choose among three connected rooms during this play time with different choices available in each room.
Snack Time: At this time all the children share a snack together and practice their social and language skills as they sit together at the tables. As each child finishes and cleans up, they then choose a picture book to look at and relax until everyone is finished.
Circle Time: During circle time the children practice their counting skills as we briefly discuss the days of the week, the month and the weather for the day. Each child has opportunities to speak in front of the group as weather person, calendar person etc. throughout the month. Circle time is an excellent opportunity for the children to practice asking and answering questions relating to the topic.
We also introduce our weekly themes, review vocabulary, read a theme related book and discuss the art project for the day.
Project Time: As the children create theme related crafts, we are working on following directions, fine motor skills such as coloring, cutting, gluing, etc. The children take pride in their individual creations and project time gives us one more teaching opportunity related to our weekly concepts and vocabulary.
Gross Motor Time: At this time the children are encouraged to use their muscles to practice running, ball skills, bike riding and climbing on playground equipment. We have several different spaces to select for gross motor time including our gym, the playground and a room with large blocks and some climbing equipment.
Lunch: During lunch the children sit next to different friends each day and relax and chat with their peers. This is a good time to practice using our muscles to open all kinds of lunch products like pudding cups, yogurt, juice packs, etc. and asking for help when needed. The teachers sit with the children as well and encourage verbal interactions. The children clean up their leftovers, put their lunchboxes away and select a book or toy until everyone is finished.
Quiet Time: After lunch the children take a rest on their individual mats. Some of the students enjoy the short nap and seem to really need it after a busy day. For the children who are restless and not too tired, we set up quiet activities at the table to work on their goals and finish any projects etc. that are incomplete.
Miss Wende’s Class (see monthly themes below)
The Benefits of Integration: The children in this group participate fully throughout the daily schedule with their peers from the Play and Learn preschool. It is very exciting to observe the friendships developing within the group. We are noticing that all children benefit from accepting each others strengths and needs and a spirit of teamwork is the goal. There are four teachers, (Wende, Cynthia, Shira, and Julie) who collaborate on planning and leading groups throughout the day.
Daily Schedule: Arrival and Free play: Every morning as the children arrive and get settled with book bags and notebooks etc. they come in the room and are encouraged to choose an activity. The teachers select a variety of table toys to encourage pre academic skills. The teachers interact and supervise their play encouraging social skills, and assist in guiding them on learning counting, shapes, alphabet, etc. They have access to art supplies to work on their coloring and cutting during this time as well. The children are able to choose among three connected rooms during this play time with different choices available in each room.
Snack Time: At this time all the children share a snack together and practice their social and language skills as they sit together at the tables. As each child finishes and cleans up, they then choose a picture book to look at and relax until everyone is finished.
Circle Time: During circle time the children practice their counting skills as we briefly discuss the days of the week, the month and the weather for the day. Each child has opportunities to speak in front of the group as weather person, calendar person etc. throughout the month. Circle time is an excellent opportunity for the children to practice asking and answering questions relating to the topic.
We also introduce our weekly themes, review vocabulary, read a theme related book and discuss the art project for the day.
Project Time: As the children create theme related crafts, we are working on following directions, fine motor skills such as coloring, cutting, gluing, etc. The children take pride in their individual creations and project time gives us one more teaching opportunity related to our weekly concepts and vocabulary.
Gross Motor Time: At this time the children are encouraged to use their muscles to practice running, ball skills, bike riding and climbing on playground equipment. We have several different spaces to select for gross motor time including our gym, the playground and a room with large blocks and some climbing equipment.
Lunch: During lunch the children sit next to different friends each day and relax and chat with their peers. This is a good time to practice using our muscles to open all kinds of lunch products like pudding cups, yogurt, juice packs, etc. and asking for help when needed. The teachers sit with the children as well and encourage verbal interactions. The children clean up their leftovers, put their lunchboxes away and select a book or toy until everyone is finished.
Quiet Time: After lunch the children take a rest on their individual mats. Some of the students enjoy the short nap and seem to really need it after a busy day. For the children who are restless and not too tired, we set up quiet activities at the table to work on their goals and finish any projects etc. that are incomplete.
Special weekly groups: On Mondays we have dance with Miss Elizabeth. On Fridays the children have a movement class, Creative Kinections with Miss Colleen in the morning and a dance activity with Miss Dorothy. We also have Show and Tell on Fridays when we try to have the children send in things to go with the letter of the week when possible.
June 2009
Themes: This month we will be preparing for preschool graduation, introducing the letter Z, and reviewing the entire alphabet. For Father’s day the children will be working on little gifts. We will be reading several books about Dads including Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer and What Do Dads Do Best.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making fatther’s day presents, preparing the props for our graduation celebration and finishing up our alphabet books we have been working on all year.
Books: Some of the books of the month include: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and We Like Kindergarten.
Reminders: Moving up day is on June 19th at 10:00 and the last day is June 24th.
May 2009
Themes: This month we will be preparing for Mother’s Day, and introducing the letters W,X, and Y. For Mother’s day the children will be working on making handprint flowers and multi-colored vases. We will be reading several books about Mommies including Just Me and My Mom by Mercer Mayer and Is Your Mama A Lama.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making mother’s day presents paintings, adding watermelons to our alphabet book, drawing x-ray pictures with white chalk on black paper, and making x’s on a tic tac toe game. During Y week the children will be making yarn paintings with yellow paint. We will also be working on a farm animal project to follow up with our field trip. The last week we will be working on the covers to the alphabet books we have been working on since September.
Books: Some of the books of the month include: Where the Wild Things Are, When Will it be Spring, All Year Long, Yertle the Turtle.
Reminders: We will be closed for Memorial day on May 25 as well as May29 for a staff development day. We will be going on a field trip to Kelkenberg Farm on Monday May 15th.
April 2009
Themes: This month we will finish with the letter T, and intoduce the letters U and V as well. We will also focus on the season of Spring and note all the blooming flowers and birds etc. as we begin to spend some time outside.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making tube paintings, and telephone projects. During U week we will marble paint raindrops on umbrellas. For V week the children will make violins and a violinist from the Buffalo Philharmonic will be coming in to visit and share his talent with us as well.
Books: Some of the books of the month include: Timonthy’s Class Trip, A Monster Under the Bed, and The Velveteen Rabbit.
Reminders: We will be closed April 9-April 17. School resumes on April 20th.
March 2009
Themes: This month we will be talking about the children’s author Eric Carle. We will also continue with the alphabet letters Q, R,S and T. We focus on one specific letter each week and relate the crafts, books and circle time discussions to the letter of the week.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making quilts Q-tip painting, making a rainbow collage, creating a red rectangle city skyline. During S week we will be making snakes, the planet Saturn, and weaving a spider web as well as creating a spring bulletin board.
Books: Some of the books of the month include: Very Quiet Cricket, The Keeping Quilt, Roosters off to see the World, My Spring Robin, and Some Smug Slug.
Reminders: We will be closed on March 20th for a staff development day.
February 2009
Themes: This month we will be talking about Healthy Habits and the Human Body. We will also continue with the alphabet letters N, O and P. We focus on one specific letter each week and relate the crafts, books and circle time discussions to the letter of the week.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making nests, a number collage, writing a classroom newsletter, making orange shapes, making an octopus, and creating a puppy project.
Books:, Bird’s Nests, Nina,Nina,Ballerina, Oops, Oopsie Otter, Puppies are like that, Peter’s Chair, Plenty of Penguins and a variety of books focusing on the featured letters of the month and The Human body as well.
Reminders: We will be closed for President’s week from February 16th-February 20th.
January 2009
Themes: This month we will be talking about the winter season and making fun projects relating to snow and ice. We will also continue with the alphabet letters J,K,L and M. We focus on one specific letter each week and relate the crafts, books and circle time discussions to the letter of the week.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include making jelly bean jars, jewels in a treasure box, jack-in-the-boxes and lacing mittens.
Books:, The Mitten, Jamberry, Frosty the Snowman, and a variety of books focusing on the featured letters of the month and winter themes as well.
Reminders: We will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. day on Monday, January 19th.
December 2008 Themes: This month we will be talking about the December holidays and the idea of lights as well as stars and planets. We will discuss how different people celebrate holidays. We will look through store ads and choose pictures of gifts we think our families would enjoy. Stars, planets, candles, and decorating with lights will be explored. We will also continue with the alphabet letters H and I. We focus on one specific letter each week and relate the crafts, books and circle time discussions to the letter of the week.
Art activities: Some of the art projects will include holiday cards for our families, hibernating winter animals, igloos, and starry night paintings.
Books: A Home for Winter, The Hat, A House is a House for Me, A Book of Hugs, and a variety of books focusing on the letter I as well.
Reminders: We will be closed for winter break December 24 through January 4.
November 2008
Themes: This month we will be concentrating on the Thanksgiving holiday and the spirit of giving. We will also be introducing the alphabet letters F-H. We focus on a specific letter each week and relate the crafts and books and circle time discussions to the letter of the week. For F week we will be collecting Food for the food pantry.
Art activities: We will be making colorful fish, flags, and talking about fire safety.
Books: A few of the books that incorporate our themes include;A Fly Flew By, Franklin and the Tooth Fairy, and Five Green and Speckled Frogs.
Reminders: There is no school on the following dates: November 11th, 27th and 28th.
October 2008
Themes: This month we will be concentrating on the season of Fall, and the alphabet letters A-E. We focus on a specific letter each week and relate the crafts and books and circle time discussions to the letter of the week and Fall related topics as well.
Art activities: Some of the theme related crafts will include apple prints, making beehives, and cornstalks.
Books: A few of the books that incorporate our themes include; Apples, Apples, Apples, Ten Red Apples, Busy As a Bee, and The Pumpkin Farm.
Reminders: There is no school on the following dates: October 9, 13, 14, and 21. Also, we are going to The Pumpkin Farm on October 17th.
September 2008
Themes: This month we will be concentrating on making friends and how each child is unique and special. We will also focus on manners and play skills.
Art activities: Some of the theme related crafts will include, self portraits, decorating white fabric to make cabinet covers, a friendship link paper chain, and imaginary birthday party hats and decorations for our class mascot ,Misha bear.
Books: A few of the books that incorporate our themes include; Going to My Nursery School, I Like Me, Best Best Friends, and Mind Your Manners In School.
July/August 2008
Themes: This month we will begin our summer theme of Planet Earth and regional habitats. In July we will be discussing Oceans, deserts, polar/arctic habitats, and the rainforest.
Art activities: During the week of July 7th – 11th we will be creating an ocean scene the entire week. On Monday the children will finger paint on a large paper with the blues and greens to make an ocean background. As the week progresses they will be adding seaweeds, ocean creatures and fish to their oceans. We will also be taking a neighborhood walk to a pet store to observe the aquariums. Week two of July we will focus on the desert. The children will be making cactus plants, chameleons, snakes and sandy deserts with camels. Week three of July we will be discussing the arctic zone. Some of our projects include making icebergs in the ocean with polar bears and walruses, paper bag penguins, igloos, and a night scene of stars and the Northern lights. The last week of July we will talk about the rainforest. Our projects this week include making a rainforest background, adding rainforest animals, making butterflies, and creating beautiful quetzal birds.
Books: A few of the books that incorporate our themes include; A House for Hermit Crab, Fidgety Fish, Somewhere in the Ocean, Snakes, Lizards, EarthSong, Little Polar Bear, Plenty of Penguins, Rain, Rain, Rain Forest, and My Umbrella.
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