Hi!.. I had a hard time sending this last night…so here is this morning!!!
Just a note about mittens and gloves… We noticed at the end of the day that a few children went home with one mitten or glove…SORRY!!!!!!!!!!! We will encourage the children to put their mittens and gloves in their sleeves of their coats or in their pockets rather than in their lockers. This will help us all remember to take mittens and gloves home at the end of the day. I found a few of our friends’ mittens and gloves in their lockers at the end of the day. Don’t worry, they are not lost! We will be more diligent in helping our friends with this too. Thanks for your patience with this! 🙂
Please take a few minutes to label your child’s clothing, thanks!
Today:
Our day was very busy today, it just flew by!!! We had library and computers in the morning and this worked out really nicely. We will keep our combined period, it makes for a shorter computer time but the children still have 30 minutes to explore the programs in the computer lab, as well they have plenty of time to work on the Ipad in our classroom. The boys and girls enjoyed playing on A to Zap. Next week we will begin Plumo at the Zoo..a program that supplements our math program: matching, sequencing to name a few of the activities we will begin with.
Today we continued to finish our pumpkins! Take a look at our bulletin board and tree so far! The children are taking their time to paint, colour and cut…further developing their fine motor skills.
We introduced the “Listening Centre” today. We first listened to the story, “Pick a Pumpkin, Ms. Millie” which is a story about a silly teacher who uses words incorrectly, for example, when they are at the pumpkin patch, she tells the children they are going on a “dragon” ride instead of a wagon ride. This really is a silly book and we thought it was very funny! Not to mention that it was a great phonemic awareness activity..rhyming words will be something we listen for and talk about a lot this year!
The children had a chance to listen to the story at our listening centre, it was fun to listen to them laughing as they enjoyed hearing the story again with a friend!
The children also had a chance to “help” Mr. Kneebone and Madame Scarfo carve our class Jack-o-lantern. Mr. Kneebone had plenty of helpers and they did a fabulous job! I think our class jack-o-lantern looks exactly like the paper jack-o-lantern, don’t you?
One more activity to tell you about…the children also measured the circumference of our class pumpkin, using string to measure. We talked about the string being too short, too long or just right…I explained to the children that they could explore this numeracy concept during playtime and it was so incredible seeing the children explore and use these mathematical words with friends. Play-based learning is so amazing to watch!!!
Speaking of which…
Parent Volunteers!
It is time for you to join us!!!
I will be organizing parent volunteers starting in the second week of November. I will send a form home with your child in Mr. Zippy. Please let me know if the date I have given you works or not (based on the information you gave to me at our intake interviews in September). Some tasks you might expect to do in the classroom:
work with students,
read with students
do cutting and gluing jobs for us
organizing
playing
working on crafts with children
playing games with children
Thanks so much for your time!
Thanks for reading!
Ms. Jo-Anne 🙂
