This is our final week of our building unit and we will end it with a story about woodland friends who may loose their homes and work together to save their homes. (Dinosaur Woods) Materials from this book will be in the sensory table, along with bull dozers and sand.

We will also read a book called The Shape of Things and the students will be able to participate by adding shapes as the book is read to them.

Our letters for the week are G and H along with sorting for Math.  The students have really enjoyed this unit and playing in the sand and dramatic play area. The dramatic play area will have a large refrigerator box for the students to decorate like a building.

The next unit:

We will take a break from our curriculum for a few weeks as the Olympics will arrive at the EEC.  Each class in the building will be a country and help participate in this very exciting world event.

This week our focus is “what are buildings made?” of and “what tools do we use?”.  We will be making our own buildings in centers by using Jenga blocks and play-dough, and marshmallows with toothpicks. In one center we will be making a map of our own town using real pictures of buildings in Fairview Park.  Our dramatic play area will be turned into a construction site!!! The sensory table will have wet sand and sand castle forms to make buildings. Our letters this week are E and F and Math will be focusing on shapes and using different shapes to draw our own building on blue prints. This is going to be a fun week!!!!

Buildings Around Us!

This week we continue with our Building Study. We will look at pictures of buildings from our community and reading the stories, Buildings, Buildings, Buildings, and A Chair for Mother.  We will be using boxes to build, magnetic tiles to build with and items from our University Circle kit that includes building items.

This week we will be focusing on learning to write the upper case letters C and D along with their lower case partners.  Math will be counting items up to 20.  If a student can count higher we will support their skill development.

This is a short week for our students and hopefully the weather will allow us to come to school each day.  Please be sure to watch the weather each morning for school closings just in case.

We are in search of typical role models for next year.  If you have a friend who is interested in attending DAP, have them check the website for our link, which will be posted early next week, for the Spring screening on March 12.  Any questions regarding next year please don’t hesitate to email or talk to one of the teachers.

This is a really cool video on Buildings from all over the world.

This week we start an exciting study which the kids really get into…our building study.  This is when we start to discuss what buildings are made of, we start to experiment how to make our own buildings, and experiment with different types of materials in different ways.  The kids really love this!!  This week we start back to the ABC’s with our Fundations curriculum and the kids start getting into writing letters and proper letter formation.  Our letters of the week are A and B.  Throughout the whole introduction of letter writing we will be using all different kids of hands on activities to expose learning in a multi-sensory way through play.  This week we will be using individual magna doddle boards.  Our books this week are The three little pigs and Changes, Changes, Changes.  We will investigate different ways to construct buildings and houses and test our structures to see if they hold up to a hair dryer (the big wolf)

You will be receiving an email explaining our January family project for the building.  We will be combining everyones project to make our own “Fairview Park”. This is a great time to be creative with your child!!!

SINCE IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH IT IS SNACK TIME.  PLEASE SEND IN A SNACK AND 2 BOTTLES OF JUICE FOR THE CLASSROOM…THANK YOU 🙂

PM class only:

We have a field trip this Thursday to MOCA.  Please make sure your child is at school by 11:45 the bus will leave promptly at noon.

These two days we will have fun talking about snowmen, playing with snow and doing fun winter activities.  We will have snow in the sensory table again and will be making snowmen and using Mr. Potato Head pieces to make them more realistic!!  We will be doing some fine motor work and making snowflakes out of pipe cleaners and beads.  Our other centers this week will focus on review of the ABC’s and one-to-one correspondence. This week will be a lot of fun and will help the kids ease back into the school routine.

I hope you enjoyed the Holidays and enjoyed time with your family and friends!!!

Now that we are seeing snow on the ground and the temps are dropping just wanted to remind you if Fairview Park City Schools (FPCS) close due to snow or cold the DAP program will not have school as well…we follow the  FPCS calendar and call offs.

See you tomorrow!!!