Snow Gear

Please send in snow gear on Thursday 12/5/19.  Including boots, snow pants, hats and snow mittens.   With our newly fallen snow this is a great opportunity to explore and play.  As long as the ‘real feel’ is above 25 at our playground time we will be going outside. Occasionally, we change our playground time until the end of the day.  On those days, children will be sent home in their snow gear.

Next week, Wednesday, November 27, 2019, the preschool will be dismissing at 10:40.   There is no school on Thursday, November 28th (Thanksgiving) and Friday, November 29, 2019.

We have been asked to post this by the School Nurse.

Just a friendly reminder that it is the time of year that you should be checking your child’s head for lice.  It is not uncommon to see lice at this time of year, and parental head checks are strongly encouraged. Our District’s Lice Procedures/Protocol is attached Here and please refer to the bottom of the policy for plenty of education on lice. If you have any questions, concerns, or need support, please feel free to contact the Nurse’s Office.

Family Traditions - November

Family Traditions - November

Family Project:

Please complete the sheet about traditions and return it to school along with 3-5 pictures of your family.  Thank you.

Save the Date: December 18th - Family Party - more information to follow

This month we will begin our next unit, Family Traditions.

Theme concepts for this unit are:

-A family is a group of children and adults who care for each other.

-A family tradition is a special way of doing things

-Family traditions may be connected to ethnicity

-Traditions are observed with different frequencies

-Traditions can take many forms: food, activities, and clothing

-Traditions have common themes

During this unit, we will be discussing traditions in general.  We will also be discussing how children celebrate special traditions with their families.  Some of the traditions we will include are: Diwali, Halloween, Las Ofrendas, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, and Greek Orthodox Easter.  This list was compiled based on the information shared via our family tradition sheet.  Our focus is on how the children in the Lucky Duck Classroom celebrate those special days, (even though some are not for a few months).  When possible coloring pages related to these days will be provided for any child who is interested.

Nov. 11th (No School - Veteran's Day)

Nov 12th (No School - Professional Development)

November 13th (No School - Conferences)

November 28th and 29th (No School - Thanksgiving Break)

Books for the Month:

Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells

Thanksgiving by Miriam Nerlove

Full Full Full of Love by Trish Cooke

Night Tree - by Eve Bunting

Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell

Small Groups:

Shape Matching

Matching letters in our names

Decorating cupcakes

Fall File Folder Games working on visual discrimination, letter and numeral matching

Choice Time:

Easel: Painting pictures of birthday cakes, turkeys

Writing: chalkboards, making a grocery list

Library: Thanksgiving and November Books

Sensory Table: water - filling and emptying cups

Dramatic Play Area: setting up a grocery store

Rug Toy: Click Roads

Blocks - Tinkertoys

Oct 21

Stories 
Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin 

Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. -- All day long he hears: Click, clack, moo  But Farmer Brown’s problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes! 

Federick by Leo Lionni  
While the other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away.

Pumpkins by Melvin and Gilda Berger  
Fall is pumpkin time!   Simplistic non-fiction text with photographs and fun facts.

Small Groups
Tuesday - sorting leaves by color

Wednesday - sorting pumpkins by size

Thursday-  coloring a scarecrow by following directions

Choice Time
Kitchen - Fall clean up, Raking leaves and putting them in bags
Blocks - Wooden blocks and Farm animals
Table - Playdough
Math - Shape sorting by placing foam shapes into correspondence barns with the same shape
Sensory - Finding apple pom poms in Rice
Rug - Waffle Blocks
Art-  Making cows and horses

October 14th

Stories
The Three Little Pigs - Retold by Patricia Seibert
Leaves, Leaves, Leaves  by  Melvin and Gilda Berger
Time to Harvest by Melvin and Gilda Berger

Small Groups
Tuesday - We created a farm scene by matching shapes.  This will be shared with you at conferences.

Wednesday - We played, "Where is the barn?"  Students took turns turning over a card with a farm animal to try and find the picture of the barn that was hiding.  We also used star builders to make our creations and some fun shapes.

Thursday- We will be creating ducks for our farm mural.

Choice Time
Kitchen
Blocks - Making homes for our animal friends with yellow blocks
Table - Playdough
Math - Shape sorting by placing foam shapes into correspondence barns with the same shape
Sensory - Rice
Rug - Cars

Week of October 7th

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our open house, it was great to see so many families.  If you missed our open house and have questions about our class or any time throughout the year, please feel free to ask. 

The stories we will be reading this week include:

Apple Farmer Annie   
"Filled with bright primary colors and pictures of America's favorite fruit, Wellington's enticing story follows Annie, a busy apple farmer. She picks, counts, sorts, bakes tasty treats, and sells her best apples." Penquin Random House


Apples and Pumpkins    "A young girl spends a glorious fall day picking apples and searching for the perfect pumpkin in this refreshed classic." Amazon


The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything  
"But one autumn night, while walking in the woods, the little old lady heard . . . clomp, clomp, shake, shake, clap, clap. And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life! ... And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life!"  Amazon


Throughout this unit, we will be creating a mural of a farm scene - We will post a picture of this scene at the end of the unit.

Small Groups
We will be painting pigs to add to our farm scene - We will be using paint and shaving cream for this activity.

We will decorate fall pictures with stickers - we are working on placing one sticker in one dot to work on one to one correspondence.

We will be painting a large barn and silo together as a group.

Choice Time
Kitchen
Making pens for farm animals with blocks
Playdough Mats - rolling ball to add to  our apple trees
Math - Identifying the numeral and adding that many apples to our apple trees
Sensory - Rice
Table - Decorating acorns