This week will begin our first week of our Tree study.  The Questions for the week are  “What do we know about trees?”and  “What do we want to find out?”  The Question of the day is “Did you see a tree on the way to school today?” To help answer all of these questions we will take a nature walk on the school grounds and explore the trees. We will gather items from the trees that we find and fill the sensory table.  For art we will use a tree item to paint with at the table. Feel free to send in any items you and your child may find on a walk in your neighborhood.

We have also created a tree in the classroom that the students will name along with adding their own ideas of what we can do with a tree.

Our letters for the week are I and J and Math will be patterning.

This week we will be working on our family trees using the family pictures you have sent in and creating a book for our classroom library. If you have not sent in a family picture please send one in or email the picture to my email address, mfrenz@fairview.k12.oh.us

One of our stories of the week is Our Tree Named Steve which is a sweet story about the things in life we hold dear to us, anther story this week is a favorite Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

I will be out Monday and Mrs. Mary Maruna will be subbing.  She is very familiar with substituting for our DAP program.

September 26 is Literacy Night from 6:30-7:30 Pm along with conferences to sign Step Up to Quality (SUTQ) paperwork. If you have not signed up for conferences please do so. The conference will only take 15-30 minutes.  We need to go over results of the ASQ questionnaires that you did online and sign off on it.  This is a requirement for our rating for SUTQ.

Here is the link to sign up for a conference if you haven’t already

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c4daca72ba4fe3-conferences

This week is our last week of our beginning of the year study.  Our focus questions of the week are “how do we make and keep friends?” and “how can we be part of the group?”. We are going to focus on “group activities”. One of our art projects this week will be called circle of friends in which a group of friends will make a circle with hand prints.  This is a great cooperative activity as the children need to decide on colors together and how many hands they need etc.  Our letters of the week are G and H and our math will focus on counting 0-5.

One of our books this week is the Gingerbread man.  We will be using Gingerbread Playdough (it always smells so good in the room) and making Goo together as a class.

A few house keeping items:

***please make sure you have completed all paperwork and BOTH questionnaires online***

EEC Open House is this Thursday from 6-7:30 (I also have conferences scheduled for this day); I also have Sept 26th, and October 3rd available for conferences so that I/we can get all Step Up to Quality paperwork completed. (please make sure you sign up for a slot or email me with issues)

Scholastic Book Fair is all week 18-22

School pictures are October 19th forms will be going home soon

Who works at your school?

This week we will be learning about who works at our school and their jobs.  We will also begin our look at our families.  We have all different kind of families as we will learn in the story Charlie Anderson.  It is a sweet story about a cat who lives in two different homes.

We will introduce the letters E and F along with our math study of sorting.

Music begins this week with Miss Alicia .

FANTASTIC NEWS ALERT!!!

We received the grant for the University Circle Initiative!!  Our first field trip will be Oct 5th to the Music Settlement and their outside classroom.  Last year it was amazing to see the children play and learn outside.  Of course this is for the afternoon students only.

Permission slips and a sign up genius will be sent out soon for families to sign up to be chaperones.  A permission slip has to be signed by a parent for your child to attend.

We look forward to participating in this program again this year and know it will be a worthwhile experience for all the students.

A big thanks to Martha Holden Jennings Foundation for the grant!!!

It appears that the students have adjusted very well returning to school.  It was a fast week!

This week we will only have three days, but those three days will be filled with fun things and talking about our emotions.

The question of the week is “What should you do if you get sad or scared at school?”  We will discuss ways that we can tell our friends and teachers how we are feeling.  The students will be working on the Letters C and D along with counting from 0-5 with the use of manipulatives.

Our story this week is Wemberley Worried by Kevin Henkes