We had a great time playing in the snow today.  The Lucky Ducks worked together to build a snowman.  Enjoy our photos on our picture blog.

Wind and Water

OWL Unit 3 Weeks 1 & 2

This week we will begin our Wind and Water Unit. Children will explore wind and water using observations, experiments, and books to learn more about such topics as evaporation, weather, temperature, insulation, rain and snow.

Here are the theme concepts for this unit:

• We find water in different forms-- as rain (liquid) snow and ice (solid) and steam (gas). Temperature affects the form of water.
• Water soaks into, or is absorbed by, some things but is repelled by others.
• Wind--moving air-- affects things. Lighter things are moved a lot by wind, Heavier things are moved less by wind. The amount of wind changes with the weather. In storms, wind can blow very hard.
• Water comes to us through rain or snow.
• Water evaporates from puddles and from things that are wet.
• Plants and animals need water to live.

Reminders:

We started our new lending library. On Thursday, students will select a book to bring home. They created special book pouches to transport the books back and forth. Books are due back to school on Tuesday.

We are working on our next life skill about being flexible.  

Week of January 3-6

Books for the week:

Gilberto and the Wind by: Marie Hall Ets

One Dark Night by: Hazel Hutchins

Small Groups:

• Shape Bingo

• What can wind move?
• Making Snow Globes

Choice time:

Art Table: Painting kites likes Gilberto's kite by coloring with markers and adding drops of water

Easel: Painting with colors from Gilberto and the Wind (green, brown, black, white)

Manipulatives: Matching Clothespins to letters


Library Area: Books about Wind and Water


Sensory Table: water and sailboats

Writing Table: Writing in blank books

Dramatic Play: kitchen

Rug Toy: Doll Houses

Block Area: Making straight line letters

Week of January 9-13th

Books for the week:

Gilberto and the Wind by: Marie Hall Ets

One Dark Night by: Hazel Hutchins

Rabbits & Raindrops

Small Groups:

• Does it absorb or repel?
• Following directions activity
• Journal page about being flexible

Choice time:

Art Table: Coloring with markers and adding drops of water

Easel: Painting and spraying the easel with water

Math/Fine Motor: Feed the Animals - roll the dice and give the bunny that many carrots
Library Area: Books about snow
Sensory Table: waterwheels

Writing Table: Writing in Blank books

Dramatic Play: laundromat

Rug Toy: Blowing Bubbles like Gilberto

Block Area: Cardboard Blocks

Open House for 2017-18 School Year

Open House for 2017-18 School Year

The Burlington Early Childhood Center (BECC) will be hosting an Open House for new students on Friday, January 27, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.  The BECC is an integrated public preschool for children ages 3-5.  We support children of all abilities in both general education and special education settings.  We also provide support in the areas of speech-language, motor, and social skill development.

Our Open House will provide families with an opportunity to view our programs, meet the teachers, and pick up registration packets to enroll their children for the 2017-2018 school year.  Students must be 3 years old by August 31, 2017 to be considered for enrollment for the fall of 2017.

For more information about registration/Open House, please call 781-270-1808.  For more information about our program, please visit the Burlington Early Childhood Center Website The BECC is located in Burlington High School at 123 Cambridge Street.  Our entrance is at the back of the building between the two playgrounds.

Week of December 12th

Stories:
Gingerbread Baby by Jan Bret
Gingerbread Boy - Richard Egielski

Small Group
Gingerbread Names
Gingerbread Puzzles
Positional Book

Choice Time
Painting Gingerbread Houses
Lincoln Logs
Blocks
Writing Center
Sand Table

We will be practicing for our family party this week as well.

December 5th

Last call for Pajamas for our Scholastic Pajama drive!  We will collect new pajamas until Dec 9th.

****Snow***
We had our first taste of snow, and the kids loved it!  We will try and go outside everyday as long as the temperature is above 25 degrees.   Please send your children to school with snowboots if there is still snow on the ground (grassy surfaces), if it is snowing or there is more than a small amount already on the ground please send in snowpants as they love to sit or kneel in the snow. We will help the children learn how to put them on themselves.  Snow mittens are important to keep there hands and fingers warm and dry.  If you would like to leave any snow gear here at school please let me know.  My last request is that each item (left and right) are labeled.  It makes it easier to return the item to the correct owenr.  Thank you in advance for your help with this.


We are continuing our unit on friends while we read the many stories of the gingerbread man.  In the first tale that we read, the Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt is tricked by a fox who tells him to come a little closer then gobbles him up.  In the next version by by Catherine McCafferty, the fox helps the gingerbread man cross the river before he gobbles him up.  In the third version, the Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst, she is able to trick the fox.

       


We have been working on our life skills 2 & 3 about following directions. The Lucky Ducks will continue to work on following both one and two step directions right away while we introduce our 4th preschool life skill - When something is too hard, find a teacher and say,'Help Please'.

Small Groups
Extending Patterns of gingerbread boys and girls - these pattern strips will remain at school to be used as part of our family party.

Decorating Group Gingerbreads - Students will need to discuss, share ideas and compromise how they would like to decorate on large gingerbread.

Sequencing gingerbreads by size and matching them to the correct size house.


Choice Time:
Kitchen - Today the Lucky Ducks helped set up our new bakery.  They created baking pans (cardboard and tin f oil), found gingerbread shapes and selected small items for eyes and buttons.  They will be baking gingerbreads in our oven with playdough

Art - Oh the glitter!  The Lucky Ducks love glitter and this unit leads to so much glitter.  They are decorating there gingerbread friends this week.  We will begin to work on a large group gingerbread house as well.

Math - building patterns with unifix cubes

Playing Candy Land

Sensory Table - Lacing Pasta

Scholastic Pajama Drive - We are collecting new pajamas of all sizes until December  9, 2016

December 1st is our day for conferences.  Please remember this is a time for adults only.

Scholastic orders - Please order by December 2nd at noon - The coupons we sent home are active on December 1st.  If these books are a surprise please let me know and we will send them home in a bag.

Save the date:  December 22nd at 10:30 is our family party.

This week in the Lucky Duck Room.

Stories -
Dandelion by Don Freeman
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Small Groups
Making a Dandelion puppet
Coloring a rainbow fish by following directions (ie color 3 scales blue)

Choice Time
Lemonade stand
Sensory Table - Stringing Pasta
Playdough
Rug - Trains
Blocks - Small Wooden Blocks
Number Puzzles

Pajama Pinata Party

We wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving.

November 23, 2016

Today we are having our pajama and pinata party.  Yesterday the Lucky Ducks were busy decorating our Pinata box that we will open today.  We also made play dough turkeys during our art time as well. 

Stories this month
Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
Mathew and Tilly
Hooray A Pinata
Letter to Amy

Small groups
- Today - Color a pinata by number
-Yesterday - Sequencing a pizza
Last Week
-I can be a good friend- selecting things we can do to be a good friend
-Decorating Stationary and Mailing Letters (I hope you all received them!)
- Journal Pages

Choice Time:
Lemonade Stand
Pizza Art
Ipads
I am thankful for Handprints
moon sand
puzzles