Last week of school

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circle-of-childrenThis will be the last week of school before our Winter Break.  Hard to believe the year is half over.  We are on break from December 19th and return to school on January 2, 2017.

This last week we will continue to practice our two songs, Snowflake and Little Snowman.  The children are very excited to sing them for you.  If you cannot attend the evening performance on Thursday Dec. 15th you are welcome to attend the dress rehearsal on Thursday at 10 AM.  For those PM families, if you want your child to practice you will need to bring them and take them home again.  School will remain the same in the PM.  This final week before break we will be stepping away from our clothing unit and finishing up our winter crafts.  Our story this last week is The Sneezey Snowman.  It is a cute story of how a snowman melts because he is cold and sneezing!!.  The students will have a chance to create a new way that their snowman melts.  Our letter is F and our math concept is patterning.

 

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

 

The Mitten

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This week we will be reading The Mitten by Jan Brett.  We will retell the story through sequencing activities, creating mittens for art, rhyming, counting to 10 for math  and working on our art projects for the Holiday Concert.  We will continue to practice our songs, Snowflake and I’m a Little Snowman to the tune of I’m a Little Teapot.  Please practice the songs at home with your child so that they are ready for the big night!  Tickets are always in hot demand.  As soon as the invite to get tickets for the show is released, please turn in your request ASAP.  Each family generally gets 2 tickets per family.  It often is a standing room only event!!

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The afternoon class will listen Debbie Abela from the Early Learning Initiative on Monday about their upcoming visit to The Natural History Museum and learn about the Global Kitchen of which they will see and participate in on Thursday afternoon.  The students are all loving the monthly trips to the museums and have learned so much.    cmnh-global-kitchen-background-information

 

 

Llama Llama Red Pajama!!

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The next two weeks we will return to our Clothing Unit and read Llama Llama Red Pajama.  The children will use play doh mats and create clothing items.  They will separate clothing items  and pretend to wash them in the washer and dry them in the dryer.  The children will hang up clothes on a clothes line and match socks.

The last week before break we will focus on the Christmas.  We will practice our winter songs for the Winter Program on December 15th.  See the links below for your child to begin to practice the songs we have chosen to sing.

words-to-xmas-song  This is the second song to practice at home with your child.  The program is so fun and amazing for everyone.

For the PM class we will be visiting the Cleveland Natural History Museum the first week of December which is where we went on our first family outing.  It will be a great time for the children to revisit the museum.img_0317

Yes! We are thankful!

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being_thankful_cardBeing Thankful!

This week will be all about Thanksgiving and what it means to be thankful.  We will be discussing what we are thankful for and how to keep it in our hearts all year round.  Our centers and art projects will all have a Thanksgiving theme.  We will be cooking this week making our own holiday dessert and ending the week with our annual Turkey Trot.  This week is always nice to be with the children as their pure and genuine honesty of what they are thankful for helps bring simplicity to our lives.  We are thankful for you.

Remember to sign up for a conference if have not already.

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)

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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!!

 

Unit study : Beginning of school

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Our focus questions this week are When do things happen at school ?(Monday) and

Who works at our school? Tuesday thru Thursday.

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Our letter this week is R and our color is Red.  We will teach it as R, rat, /r/.  Please try to dress your child in something red throughout the week.  This will help to reinforce the color along with the letter R.  We will have red rice in the sensory table to play with along with decorating the letter R with rectangles.  We will also make rockets with your child’s name on it.  It will be a gRRRReat week with the letter R.  We will have a visitor to the classroom from the school who keeps our school clean and safe.  The class will be able to ask him questions about his job.  It’s Mr. Bill our custodian!!

The ASQ link is in the process of being loaded to the website.  When it is up and running we will let you know.  Using the seesaw app has been fun for the children to see their work after I have taken a picture and for them to tell you what it is.  If I accidentally send someone else’s picture or video to you please let me know.  I am notorious for making technological mistakes!!rules

 

 

What are our Rules?

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This week we will be asking the children What are our rules at school?  We will review the rules in the building and with each other while we are in the classroom.

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This week is the letter is S.  We will make a snake or choose to paint.  We will practice making the letter S on a page that reinforces the skyline, airplane line (middle line) and the grass line-bottom.  Kindergarten uses this program called  Fundations.  The children will see the letter S and picture of something that begins with S and then make the sound ie) S, snake /s/.  This will be how we will teach the children the letter and the corresponding sound.  It is amazing how quickly they will pick up the sound and letter identification.  We will also begin to assess all of our students in the next few weeks as the Ohio Department of Education strongly suggests that all of our students are assessed within the first 30 days of school.  This truly is a baseline to see what they know and what they need to learn!!

If you have not filled out your transition from day care to school sheet and or roster please let me know and I will email it to you.  The Step Up to Quality Folks have not come yet but they could any day.

The ASQ link is in the process of being loaded to the website.  When it is up and running we will let you know.  Also if you get a link for Seesaw please click on it and I will welcome you to the group.  It really is a super way to see what your student in doing.  I will try to upload pictures and videos at least twice a week if not more!!

PM Class ONLY:

In the next week or so we will be sending out our sign up sheet through Sign Up Genius for the first field trip to the Museum which will be Dunham Tavern.  More information to come in the nest week or so on the museum.  We can allow 5 chaperones per field trip per class along with staff.school-busEducation-quotes-Education-is-our-passport-to-the-future-for-tomorrow-belongs-to-the-people-who-prepare-for-it-todayCome and join the fun!