Building study

For the love of Buildings.

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This is our final week of buildings and we will end it with a story about woodland friends who may loose their homes.  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.

PM Class only:

The PM class will listen to Miss Debi Abela on Monday as she introduces the topic of living and non- living things. On Thursday we will be traveling to The Botanical Gardens to hear more about living and non living things.  Our library area will be filled with living and non living things for all the students to explore before we go on our field trip.

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.

Buildings, Buildings, Buildings

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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 to 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.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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BUILDING STUDY

The New year begins with our building study.  This week we will ask the students what they know about buildings.  We will read The 3 Little Pigs and Changes, Changes.  Of course the students will love the activities we have planned for The 3 Little Pigs.  They will be making homes for the Pigs and using a hairdryer to blow the houses down just as the Wolf did in the story.

Our math lesson will include graphing how many people live in our own homes and we will be making blue prints and buildings for art.

The entire downstairs will be joining in on a family project.  Please read the information below and have your family creation in to school by January 22, 2018

January Family Project – Paper bag Building

To kick off our buildings unit we are asking each child to design or recreate a house or building from their community. Ask your child about someplace they like to go, or while driving discuss the different stores, building, and houses you pass and ask them about the similarities and differences. This could help them design and create their own building using the paper bag. You can add on by using construction paper, small toys, or various crafting supplies to create a building or house for our Building Community!

Below is an examples:

Be creative and have everyone in the family participate.  It will be fun to see what creations show up to school!

PM Class only:

Monday we will be visited by Miss Debi Abela from the University Circle Initiative.  She will be sharing information with the students about the Museum for Contemporary Art-MOCA.  We will be taking our first 2018 field trip this Thursday to MOCA..  This museum is very interesting and will get the students thinking about various shapes and lines they may find in art.

For those of you who did not send snack in before break we are in need of snack, paper towels and napkins.  Thanks for helping us out!!

Building study wk 3

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This week we will be visiting the Arctic and read Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester.  https://youtu.be6dMidnGLRGI

This week we will build igloo’s out of marshmallows, build structures out of marshmallows and toothpicks for STEM .  We will build structures out of the letters N, A, G, D, B, and K and also a map of our community out of shapes.  For science we will build a pendulum and knock down buildings that the students have created.  This should be great fun and an opportunity to learn about pendulums.  Our math this week includes identifying shapes.  I think that the students are really enjoying this unit and have had great fun building all different kinds of structures.

A great big thank you to all the PM families who went on our first Friday field trip to the Cleveland Art Museum.  It was super fun and the ice skating was a huge success!

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb