What would we find inside a baseball? A cake or cork? We will make our predictions and vote on what is inside. It will be fun to see what the children think are inside. This week we will be reviewing the letters Y and Z , be adding and subtracting and creating a masterpiece with golf balls, straws and paint. We will be reading Little Red Riding Hood for out story this week, making predictions about what may happen to “Red Riding Hood.” We will be playing solo cup bowling and painting basketballs.
PM CLASS ONLY: This Thursday we will be going on our April Field trip to Cleveland Natural History Museum. Please have your child at school by 11:45 AM.
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. It is that time of year when sign ups for recreation leagues begin. The students get really excited as we expose them to many of the sport and balls they will be using on their teams.
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.
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.
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!!
This week our question of the week is Who makes clothing? We will continue to ask this question all week as we read The Jacket I wear in the Snow and Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up her Wash. The students have really enjoyed examining their own clothing as to if it soft or scratchy and if it has numbers or letters on it. These questions are great ways to stimulate conversation with your child.
Mrs. Sheridan our Speech Pathologist will be in our room on Monday to re-read the story The Jacket I wear In the Snow and work on speech goals.
We will be finishing our Christmas gifts, reviewing the letters D, E and F, patterning and having fun along the way.
Winter Program: Please make sure you have turned in your seat request for the Winter Program. If not ,you can attend the dress rehearsal on Thursday morning at 10AM. For our afternoon students who attend the dress rehearsal, families are responsible for them as the AM class is in session. You will need to take them home after the dress rehearsal and bring them back for class in the PM. ***Please be at school no later than 6:45 and in the room for the Winter Program.
We are singing, The Reindeer Pokey, Do you want to build a snowman and This little light of mine. We are so excited to sing for you all!!
The students will have an opportunity to add to their binder by creating a picture of their favorite thing they did or ate over the Thanksgiving break and writing a story about it. We love to scribe what they are telling us as their stories are very sweet.
This week we will be reading The Mitten, a Hungarian folk tale, as we begin our study on Clothing. The housekeeping area will be set up for sorting and washing the laundry. Using clothes pins to hang up laundry will help strengthen fine motor skills. For art we will paint our hands white and place them onto mittens. For those students who are able to use scissors we will encourage them to cut out their own mittens. Math is sorting and our letters are Y and Z. By the end of the week the students will be able to retell the story of The Mitten using paper manipulatives.
We will begin to practice our songs for the Holiday concert this week. A reminder that when the reservations for seats is sent out, please return them ASAP as requests for seats go very quickly.
This week we will be focusing on the question: What are the characteristics of the trees in our community? We will be using our senses to discover this answer. We will be tasting different apples and comparing tastes and preferences. One of our books this week is The Grouchy Ladybug along wth revisiting Our Tree NamedSteve. For math we will be working on solidifying our counting to 5 skills. As many children are able to count beyond five we encourage them to do so. But for those who need the constant review of counting to 5 , we will support their learning. Our letters of the week are K and L. We will be painting our K with keys and decorating our L with leaves. The children always seem to love this unit and their attention to details and conversations about the trees is always interesting.
REMINDERS: Picture day for DAP is October 19th!
PM CLASS ONLY: Our first filed trip is this Thursday October 5th. We will start out our week with a visit from Miss Debi Abela from the ELI program. She will be coming every Monday of our field trip week to go over what we will see when we get there. She also sends/brings in some great hands on activities that we will use in our centers ( both AM and PM classes) just because she brings really cool stuff!!
Please have your student in their room by 11:45 AM. The bus will leave the district promptly at 12 Noon.
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. I am a personal fan of the state tree the Buckeye and its fruit!!
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. If you have not sent in a family picture please send one in or email the picture to my email address, pkalister@fairview.k12oh.us
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, and the favorite Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Miss Peggy will be out Monday morning and Mrs. Donna Kempton will be subbing. She is very familiar with substituting for our DAP program. I will return at noon for the afternoon class.
September 26 is Literacy Night from 6:30-7:30 Pm. Please plan on attending.
This week is our last week of the study Beginning of the Year. Our focus questions for the week are “How do we make and keep friends?” and “How can we be part of the group?”We will be focusing on “group activities,” working together and cooperation. One of our art projects this week is 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, and how many hands they need and how a circle units them. 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) and making Goo together as a class.
A few housekeeping items:
***please make sure you have completed all SUTQ paperwork and BOTH ASQ questionnaires online***
EEC Open House is this Thursday from 6-7:30.
As we are participating in Step Up to Quality we have decided to offer fall conferences to our families. These conferences will be brief as we need to complete all our paperwork on all our students and have parent signatures on a review of the ASQ and ASQ-SE. We will schedule conferences again the week of Thanksgiving to review your child’s quarterly progress with you. Please sign up for a time on the signup genius that will be emailed out. I will be available the night of Open house along with Sept. 22, Sept 26th and October 3rd. For those families I see daily, there will be no need for you to schedule a conference. I can review the results with you at drop off and have you sign off on the review. If these dates do not fit into your family’s schedules, please email me and we will work something out. I would love to see you all before I leave.
Scholastic Book Fair is all week 18-22
School pictures are October 19th- forms will be going home soon
As you all know my last day with students will be October 6th as my hip surgery is on the following Monday. I really do not want to have this done (again) but I personally am having a great deal of pain and it is becoming ever so difficult for me to give 100% of myself to the students. I know that they will be in good hands and I will return the second week of January.
