We will be returning back to the curriculum this week and will be in week 2 of our ball study.

This week we will be painting with balls, strengthening our fine motor by putting pipe cleaners into plastic golf balls, in sensory table we will be doing  sink or float experiments all week. We will have our own skee ball set up in dramatic play and will be keeping score. Our letters this week are U and V.   This is when sign ups for recreation leagues start and all the kids get really excited because we expose them to many of the sport balls they will be playing.

This week we will be taking a break from our curriculum as the whole building celebrates color week in honor of St. Patrick’s Day and hopefully Spring!! Get ready to wear different colors all week!!

Our colors this week are as follows:

Monday- RED

Tuesday- ORANGE

Wednesday- YELLOW

Thursday- while the rest of the building is doing PURPLE/BLUE, we will be doing GREEN for ST. PATRICK’S DAY (our favorite holiday!!!!) since the kids are not here on Fridays

Our books this week are Rainbow Fish and Mouse Paint.  There will be other books in the library area for them to read and look at different books about color.

Our centers will be focused on different colors and art projects to go along with the books.  Our math lesson this week we will focus on sorting and making patterns out of Lucky Charm cereal.  Out letters are S and T, we will be using colored chalk in the writing center.

This is always a fun week and gets us all excited for Spring and the new colors to come!!!

BALL STUDY WEEK #1.

This week is our introduction to Balls.  We will be reading two stories, Play Ball and Bounce.  Both explore the subject of balls and how they are used in our daily lives.  See how many varieties of balls you have in your own home and we will see if your student can tell us about them when they come to school on Monday. Encourage them to identify their favorite kind of ball.

We will graph our favorite balls, see how many times they bounce and determine which ones are big and small.  Out letters for the week are Q and R. Encourage our child to practice writing their letters at home and remind them that we always start at the top of the page when beginning our letters.  We call it the skyline. We will be patterning a variety of balls for math.

PM class:  This week Miss Abela will visit us on Monday and talk to us about our up coming field trip to The Music Settlement.  We will hear about Dance stories with the Inlet Dancers.  This is a fun trip as the students get to dance with professional dancers and see what and how it feels to move in different ways.