Seasons and Turkey Trot

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Ms. Lindsey here blogging and filling in for Ms. Peggy: This week our focus will be on seasons and the different clothing we wear to keep us warm etc.  In our housekeeping area we will be using items given to us from University Circle Early Learning Initiative.  Our housekeeping will be a forest with all the woodland animal puppets.  The kids can dress up as rangers and take care of the animals.  This is a nice transition from trees into our clothing study.

Our letters this week are U and V. Can’t believe we are almost done with the alphabet!!  

If you haven’t signed up for parent teacher conferences and would like to meet please sign up on sign-up-genius. Here is the link:

 

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c4daca72ba4fe3-mspeggyms

 

Our Turkey Trot is right around the corner.  Please join us and cheer on the students in this fun run/walk around the school campus.  The students need to be dressed in athletic wear (including tennis shoes)  as well as for the weather, ie. coats, hats, mittens.  Please note the Turkey Trot swill be cancelled if there is heavy rain or snow.   The AM DAP students will report to the Gym at 9:15 and run/walk at 9:30.  The PM DAP students will report to the gym at 1:15 and run/walk around 1:30.  Students still report to their classrooms just like any other day. The teachers will get the students ready for the run/walk when it is time and will see the parents cheering us on as we run/walk.

PM students only:

Our next field trip will be this Thursday November 9th.  We will be visiting Nature Center at Shaker Lakes. Make sure your child arrives at 11:45, the bus will be leaving promptly at 12:00.  Reminder: no back packs on field trip days.

Week of October 30 – November 2

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This week we will finish out our Halloween theme finishing out with ghoulish, ghostly, and BOO-
tiful centers. We will finish out our Halloween day by frosting sugar cookies and decorating
them to look like Jack-o- lanterns.

The rest of the week we will be finishing out our trees study by discussing the seasons and how
we need to start changing what we wear because of the temperature. This is a great lead into
our next study which is clothing!!

Our letters of the week are R and S.

REMINDER FOR HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES:
On Halloween we have a building wide parade at 9:30. Parents can arrive at 8:45 and go directly
to the gym where Principal Ms. Trish will provide glazed donuts for all. You can have your child
already dressed in their costume (parents make sure to either put the costume over their
clothes or pack clothes to change into….we will change them after the parade) At 9:15 the
students then report to their classrooms and parents can go find a spot to watch the parade. If weather permits we then walk out the back doorsof the gym and parade around the building. Parents, Grandparents etc. then stand outsidealong the sidewalks and take pictures as the kids parade around the school. Anyone is welcometo watch. PM students and family are welcome to join the donuts and parade as well. We will
walk to together AM and PM and PM parents you can retrieve your child at the end of the parade.
Classroom treats are welcome to hand out to each child but there is no classroom party and we will not be eating the treats at school. They will go home in the child’s backpack. If you decide to send treats in just make sure there is enough for each child (AM 10 and PM 9) and we will help the students disburse them
to their friends.

Halloween fun

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Miss Lindsey here blogging and filling in for Miss Peggy. Since Halloween falls on a Tuesday next week we decided 2 days of Halloween was just not enough. SOOO this week we will be doing all Halloween themed centers in our classroom.  Our housekeeping area will be changed into a costume shop where the kids can buy and try on costumes.  The math this week is about graphing and we will be graphing ghoulish and ghostly items.  The letter this week are Q and R we will paint with Q-tips and glue ribbon on our R’s.  This week is such a great week.  The kids are always so excited for Halloween!!

Here are the details for the Halloween parade for next week:

On Halloween we have a building wide parade at 9:30. Parents can arrive at 8:45 and go directly to the gym where Principal Ms. Trish will provide glazed donuts for all.  You can have your child already dressed in their costume (parents make sure to either put the costume over their clothes or pack clothes to change into….we will change them after the parade)  At 9:15 the students then report to their classrooms and parents can find a good spot to watch the parade.  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.  Anyone is welcome to watch.  PM students and family are welcome to join the donuts and parade as well.  We will walk to together AM and PM and you can retrieve your child at the end of the parade.

Classroom treats are welcome to hand out to each child but we will not be eating the treats at school.  They will go home in the child’s backpack.  If you decide to send treats in just make sure there is enough for each child (AM 9 and PM 9) and we will help the students disburse them to their friends.

Our “Costume Shop”

Tree Unit Week 3

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Miss Lindsey here blogging and filling in for Miss Peggy. We had so much fun last week and will continue this week learning about trees (this is week four of six.) We will talk about food that is grown from trees and the letters O and P. We have several fun activities planned around the letters including painting with purple paint, stamping the letter O, making letters out of orange play-doh and re-visiting the book Henny Penny.

A big thank you to all of the parents that brought in snack last week.

REMINDER: Next Thursday, October 19th is picture day for the entire DAP program. Please return the picture order on Thursday the 19th.

If you do not receive an e-mail from me with the subject “Filling in for Miss Peggy” by Friday evening please e-mail me at Lcamardo@fairviewpark.k12.oh.us so I can add you to my contact list.

Healing

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The Healing Process has begun!!!

Just wanted you all to know that I am home from the hospital and the healing process has begun.  Surgery went well and with all of your well wishes I am on the mend.  Please assure all the children that I am fine, and that I got my new bones!!  Now we just need to wait until I am totally healed to return to school.

Again, thank you all for your understanding at this time and I will see you after Winter Break.

 

More Trees

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Who Lives in Trees?

This week we will be revisiting the Grouchy Ladybug and read Henny Penny.  Remembering the story of Henny Penny, an acorn falls on the chicken’s head and she thinks the sky is falling.  When in actuality it is an acorn that falls.  Who lives in trees that might eat or hide acorns?  We will discuss this with the children and perhaps get some interesting answers? The letter  M and N are our letters for the week and we will be measuring for Math.

This will be the first week that Mrs. Lindsey Camardo will be subbing for me.  The children will call her Miss Lindsey.  Again if you are in the building stop in and say hello.  She is very qualified to do my job and your beautiful babies are in good hands.

We did not get to apple tasting last week as it was a super busy week with Fire Safety and the afternoon field trip. This week we will revisit apple tasting and graph how many children like each flavor.  Yum!

Henny Penny

Tree’s, tree’s everywhere!!

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Trees- Week 2

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 Named Steve.  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.

Tree Study

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TREE STUDY WEEK 1

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.

Last Week of Beginning of Year Study

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The Gingerbread Man

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.

 

Beginning school week 3

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Who works at your school?

This week we will be learning about who works at our school and their jobs.  We will also begin our look at our families.  We have all different kind of families as we will learn in the story Charlie Anderson.  It is a sweet story about a cat who lives in two different homes.

We will introduce the letters E and F along with our math study of sorting.

Music begins this week with Miss Alicia .

FANTASTIC NEWS ALERT!!!

We received the grant for the University Circle Initiative!!  Our first field trip will be Oct 5th to the Music Settlement and their outside classroom.  Last year it was amazing to see the children play and learn outside.  Of course this is for the afternoon students only.

Permission slips and a sign up genius will be sent out soon for families to sign up to be chaperones.  A permission slip has to be signed by a parent for your child to attend.

We look forward to participating in this program again this year and know it will be a worthwhile experience for all the students.

A big thanks to Martha Holden Jennings Foundation for the grant!!!