Transportation - Ambulances and Airplanes

I hope everyone had a nice, long weekend. It was a very short week, but packed with fun!

We are continuing to learn about transportation!  This is one of the students favorite units!  Our interactive reading book for the week was All Around the Busy Town?  They all love that the books provide interactive pictures that match to pictures in the book, encouraging attention and participation.  We watched a short video and tried to identify all the sounds we hear with vehicles.  See you can identify all the transportation sounds with your child.

Transportation Sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X0pp9MF68s

We are still continuing to count in math by practicing counting by rote and 1:1 correspondence (touch and count) through fun large group activities and reinforcing math tubs. We have been counting and jumping when we roll a large dice.  It has been such a fun week listening to everyone jump and count at the same time. 

This past week we in music Ms. Erin taught us how to share and take turns with our music instruments.  We had to follow directions and take turns sharing all the neat toys.  We played maracas, claterpillars, egg shakers, rain sticks and cabasas!  It was loud and fun.

A huge thank you to all the support for the food donations sent in to help support or local charities.  We thank you for your generosity! 

As a reminder, ECS was challenged for each family to collect 25 box tops and send them in during the month of February.  If every student brought in just 25 box tops each, we would collect over 20,000 box tops in just one month, which would be more than $2,000 dollars.  We also encourage everyone to ask extended family to collect them as well.  

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!!!

This past week we had our Valentine’s Day party!!!  It was great fun to see everyone and watch our friends taking turns, sharing, remembering everyone’s names and saying please and thank you!!!  What a wonderful job you do of promoting language and encouraging your little ones to talk and express what they want at home!!  Thank you so much for all the presents!  Ms. Donelle and I loved all the gifts!!!

We read the story “Where does the car go?” about different transportation vehicles and where do they go.  The truck goes on the road.  The helicopter goes in the sky.  This was a great activity to work on prepositional phrases using the words in and on to describe where the vehicle was and to promote more language.  You could do the same at home.  Where does the cup go?  In the sink.  Where does the fork go?  In the drawer.  This is a great way to use more descriptive words and increase language.     We also watched a video about trucks and cars and the sounds that they make on the road.

We All Go Traveling By….https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=we+all+go+traveling+by

We are working on counting in math.  My goodness so many of our friends can already count to 5!!!  That is so amazing and wonderful to see how high they can count.  Please encourage counting at home, by counting toys, socks, toothbrushes, cans of soup, etc.  Anything to help them increase counting is wonderful! 

We also went to the library and listened to Ms. Jenkins tell a story about painting!  Titled “I ain’t Gonna Paint No More!” about a little boy that paints the house all sorts of colors and then paints his body!  The link to the video the students watched is below.  We will do this as a class project at the end of the year, weather permitting.  It is so fun to paint one another!!

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!  https://vimeo.com/67950933

Our school was challenged for each family to collect 25 box tops and send them in during the month of February.  If every student brought in just 25 box tops each, we would collect over 20,000 box tops in just one month, which would be more than $2,000 dollars.  We also encourage everyone to ask extended family to collect them as well.  

Happy Valentines Day!!!

We read the story “Hearts in Many Colors” about hearts and colors.  We counted 12 different colors including gray and white.  We watched a cute video on HEARTS.  We had a great time watching the hearts dancing and then made our Valentine’s Hearts for our party next week.  We also completed a design that was heart shaped and said “I love you to pieces”. 

We are finished with our patterns and are starting to rotate through our second semester of skills in math.  Please continue to work on finding patterns.  It could be at dinner setting the table or using socks of various colors or anything you can find to pattern such as toys or transportation vehicles and other objects too.  You could also pattern big and small.  This is a great way to work on another math skill! 

For our new students this will be their first time to count and for our students that were here last semester this is an opportunity to expand on learning to count further, possibly up to 10. 

This past week we had music and it was on a different day due to a conflict.  The students all did wonderful with the addition of music on a different day rather than scheduled.  They really love playing all the instruments that Ms. Erin brings and taking turns and sharing.  It is really great to see them all share when we are spending the week talking about friendship and Valentines coming up. 

An email was sent home today regarding Valentines Day Party Information, please see the details below and have a wonderful weekend!!!

“Hello Parents!

I hope you all are having a wonderful week! Our Valentine's Day party is coming up and will be held on Tuesday February 14th. The AM party will be at 9:40 and the PM party will be at 1:40. Each student will need to bring Valentines to pass out to their friends with your child's name on them (ex. From: John). Please remember to have your driver's license scanned in the front office so that you can get your visitor badge. Also, if you are planning on taking your child with you after the party, please remember to bring in your car tag or they cannot leave with you when the party is over. You can send your childs Valentines in their backpack anytime.”

AM class has 15 friends

PM class has 11 friends

Health and Teeth

On Tuesday our class had the chance to perform on the stage in the evening!  It was so cute to see everyone dressed up and singing songs about the weather and snow, and snowflakes!  We all had a great time and the kids did awesome, singing the songs we had been practicing in class.  If your child did not perform, please remember there is always next year!

We are now finished with our unit Health and teeth!   We just read the story “How many teeth does the Tooth Fairy Have?, The Tooth Book” a story that teaches us how to count how many teeth we have in our mouth.  We watched a cute video on how to take care of our teeth and only put a small amount of toothpaste on and how to brush back and forth, up and down.  A cute little lymric was sent home as well about how to do the “Brushy Brushy” to the tune of the Hokey Pokey.  We hope you all enjoyed this as much as the students!  They had a blast pretending to brush teeth!

Please continue your work with your child at home on patterns.  It could be at dinner setting the table or using socks of various colors or anything you can find to pattern such as toys or transportation vehicles and other objects too.  You could also pattern big and small.  Big hearts, little hearts would create a pattern and focus on language of using big and little.  This is a great way to work on another math skill!  Please work on these types of activities at home with your child to help discuss colors and patterns in your environment.

Brrrrr…. IT’S COLD OUTSIDE!!!   Please remember with the weather getting colder we go outside nearly every day.  According to FISD we will be outside, weather permitting when it is 32 degrees.  Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately and in layers they can take off and put on themselves with minimal assistance independently.  Also, please keep all belongings LABELED so they do not get lost at school.

Good Food

We are now finished with our unit on Nutrition and Good Food!  We just read the story “Good Food” a story that teaches us how to go to the store and get food.  Once the food is purchased we can take it home and make a good dinner.  Dad and mom and even the kids help make a great meal to eat and share.  We painted with fruit and we made funny faces with our fruit and foods!  It was yummy and we learned all about how to go to the store.  We watched a funny video which talked about food combinations and how to combine different foods.  In the end all the foods made something that was “yucky”.  The link is attached:

Song: Do you like Broccoli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frN3nvhIHUk

Next week we will begin a new math unit on patterns!  We will learn how to pattern by color and by object.  Our goal is to use an A,B A,B pattern.  So for colors we would do, orange, yellow, orange, yellow as a pattern.  Please work with your child at home on a pattern.  It could be at dinner setting the table or using socks of various colors or anything you can find to pattern such as toys or transportation vehicles and other objects too.  Please continue to work on these types of activities at home with your child to help discuss colors and patterns in your environment.

Brrrrr…. IT’S COLD OUTSIDE!!!   Please remember with the weather getting colder we go outside nearly every day.  According to FISD we will be outside, weather permitting when it is 32 degrees.  Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately and in layers they can take off and put on themselves with minimal assistance independently.  Also, please keep all belongings LABELED so they do not get lost at school.

Following rules and learning about Nutrition

We are working hard and getting back into our learning mode.  We have added several new friends to each of our classes and we are all learning together.  This week we read “Growing Vegetable Soup” a story that teaches how vegetables grow in the garden.  We painted with vegetables and we made vegetable soup!  It was yummy and we learned all about how to plant our food.  We watched a funny video which talked about food combinations and how to combine different foods.  In the end all the foods made something that was “yucky”.  The link is attached:

Song: Do you like Broccoli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frN3nvhIHUk

In our math unit we finished are working on sorting different objects.  We learned to use word descriptors and describe sort by color, size or edges.  We can sort big and little objects, we can sort objects by color and we can sort fruits, transportation vehicles and other objects too.  Please continue to work on these types of activities at home with your child to help discuss colors, size and sorting in your environment.

Brrrrr…. IT’S COLD OUTSIDE!!!   Please remember with the weather getting colder we go outside nearly every day.  According to FISD we will be outside, weather permitting when it is 32 degrees.  Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately and in layers they can take off and put on themselves with minimal assistance independently.  Also, please keep all belongings LABELED so they do not get lost at school.

It's Winter!

It snowed today!!!  It has been a great first week back at school!  We have been discussing snow and reading several books about snow.  This week we read “Snowman, Snowman” a story that teaches repetition in learning.  We learned about all the things a snowman would see walking outside and they all start with the letter S.  Sled, Skis, Scarf, Snow, and Snowflake.  We made snow this week with equal parts cornstarch and shaving cream!  It was super fun to play in the “snow”

In our math unit we finished our shapes and sorting unit.  We learned to use word descriptors and describe shapes by color, size or edges.  We also talked about how we sort them by size.  Please continue to work on these types of activities at home with your child to help discuss colors and shapes you see in your environment.

Brrrrr…. IT’S COLD OUTSIDE!!!   Please remember with the weather getting colder we go outside nearly every day.  According to FISD we will be outside, weather permitting when it is 32 degrees.  Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately and in layers they can take off and put on themselves with minimal assistance independently.  Also, please keep all belongings LABELED so they do not get lost at school.