October 11

We will continue our first unit of Family through the month of October. In this unit, students will be exploring and talking about families and the many different ways family members relate to and help one another.

Theme Concepts:

• Family members have role names (mother, father, sister, brother, etc)
• Some family members live together, some live in other places but are still family members.
• Grown-ups in a family take care of children. Younger children need more care. Older children can help take care of younger brothers and sisters.
• Families do things together that are fun.

Our Stories for this week include:
Whistle for Willie - Ezra Jack Keats     

Corduroy - Don Freeman

Handwriting -

Isolating a finger to make pumpkins on a vine

Working on our coloring book of colors

Small Groups - 

How many ducks in the pond? -

How can I help my family? - Picking chores students can do at home

Sorting Pumpkins by size

Choice Time:
Dramatic Play - Kitchen
Rug - Big Car ramps
Art - Painting pumpkins
Sensory - Finding pumpkins in the hay
Math Center - Pattern blocks
Literacy Center - Talking about our families and making our family trees

Writing Center - Writing Vocab words

Music
Way down Yonder in the Pumpkin Patch

Preschool Life Skill 2 - When I give you an instruction, do it right away.  We will continue to work on response to name in conjunction with this new life skill.

Back to School Night - We will have our back to school night on Tuesday, October 18th from 6:30-7:30.  I will give an overview of our classroom curriculum and expectations then parents are welcome to explore the classroom.  This night is for parents only, please.


As always please contact me with any questions or concerns, via email, note or phone call.  I look forward to getting to know your children and the great year ahead.