Month: October 2016

Halloween week

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The week ahead

On Monday this week we will continue our Halloween theme with the parade and costumes.  Time permitting in the morning we will  finish our ghoulish, ghostly, and Boo-tiful centers.  We The day will end by frosting sugar cookies for snack and decorating them to look like a Jack-o-Lanterns.  PM class is welcome to join the parade.  Family is required to stay with their little goblin in the morning and return for the afternoon class at 12 PM.  During gym class we will be bowling over ghosts, batting down some pumpkins (orange balloons), and a Halloween bean bag toss to finish it out.

The PM class will have a regular day while they wear their costumes.  We will have gym in the classroom if the weather in not favorable to go out.  We will try to take our gym activities outside for the afternoon class.  It promises to be BOO-tiful!!

The rest of the week we will be finishing up our study of trees and what we can make from trees.  We will be attempting to make our own paper in the classroom.  The dramatic play area this week will be the post office in which the students can “mail” letters written to each other on their homemade paper and other products made from trees. Our letter this week is C.  Fine motor will be strengthened by  Cutting out Coupons and Cutting Catalogs and looking for items that begin with the letter C.  Math will be graphing.

We look forward to a fun week starting with Halloween and ending with making paper.  It promises to be super exciting!!

 

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!     GO TRIBE!!

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Pumpkins, witches and scarecrows oh my!!

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Week before Halloween! Pumpkins and Witches oh my!!

Since Halloween falls on a Monday it just didn’t make sense to do pumpkin and Halloween themed activities all next week after Halloween is over.  So we decided to step away from our trees study and do pumpkins and Halloween themed centers this week.  For dramatic play we will have dress up outfits and Halloween costumes for the children to play with and use their imagination.  We will have Pumpkin Playdough, Math centers using candy corn to count, along with books about bats and other scary Halloween friends.  At the end of the week we will investigate a pumpkin by figuring out if it will sink or float, what is inside and what does it feel like.  There will also be a surprise in the sensory table this week!!!

Our letters this week is a review of all letters we have learned so far..M R S T P N

 

Tuesday this week is the World Series Opener and Indians day in the building….wear your Tribe apparel

GO TRIBE!!!

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On Halloween we will be having a building wide parade that starts at 9:45.  AM class children come to school dressed in their costumes and come in the classroom as usual. (parents make sure to either put the costume over their clothes or pack clothes to change into…we will change out of our costumes after the parade).  Then we will head over to the gym at around 9:30 and there will be donuts and a craft to keep everyone busy while we get organized for the parade. (parents/grandparents can join the kids to do the craft and to have donuts)

Children Trick-or-treating --- Image by © Royalty-Free/Corbis

If weather permits we then walk out the back doors of the gym and parade around the building.  Parents, Grandparents etc then stand outside along the sidewalks and take pictures as the kids parade around the school.  Everyone is welcome to watch.

PM students and family are welcome to join the parade as well.  Just go straight to the gym with your child in their costume and partake in the donuts and craft.  We will all walk together (AM and PM)

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Fall is finally here!!

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Fall is finally here!  The sounds and smells of fall remind us home, laughter and joy!
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Our tree study continues with the investigation of Trees and what comes from them.  This week we will include apples and apple trees as we make apple prints, taste a variety of apples and graph which one the students like the best, sort them by color and make apple cinnamon play doh and read Apple Farmer Annie.

Our letter is P and the sound is /p/.   Our math lessons include measuring.  We will go outside as the weather will be super great this week and measure the trunks of trees.  We will them see who’s tree trunk is the biggest/smallest.

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Tree study

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This week in DAP promises to be AMAZING!!!!

The week is SPIRIT WEEK!!!   On Monday we are able to remain in our PJ’s when we come to school. Tuesday students are welcome to wear their best super hero outfit.  Wednesday is Hat Day and Thursday is Spirit Wear Day.  Anything with Fairview Warriors on it will do!!

We are starting a new unit called The Tree Study.  The tree study will be filled with fall and exploring trees on the EEC property. Students will become more aware of the trees that surround them and what they bring to us.  We will have an Arborist visit us along with Firefighter Adam the week of Oct. 10 for Fire Safety week.

We will begin Music on Tuesday’s for each class provided by Miss Alicia from Music Beyond Words.  It will be a fun time for all the children.

On Wednesday afternoon our students have gym with Mr. Kull .  They are learning about “self space” and “group space.”  He always has amazing activities for the students.

The letter of the week is Tt.

ATTENTION PM FAMILIES:

This Monday begins our visits from the University Circle Initiative.  We begin with a visit from the Dunham Tavern Museum staff and the children will explore an array of items all week that they have given us to explore. Then on Thursday afternoon we will go on our field trip to the museum and explore.  Please be at school at 11:45 AM and go to your respective classroom.    We will leave the EEC promptly at 12 PM and return at 2:30 PM.  dunham-tavern-museumIf you have any questions or concerns please give us a call or email us.

We are so excited for our field trip and know that children will have an awesome time!!