The bus drivers have completed their annual bidding and their new routes start tomorrow.  I just wanted to give you a heads up that your child may have a new driver in the morning.  Some drivers kept their same route so you may see the same familiar face. 🙂

We have a half day this Friday, November 3.

Dismissal is at 11:45.  We are already through with one quarter of our school year as Friday marks the end of the first marking period!

Don’t forget we are going Trick-or-Treating at ASC tomorrow!

Please pack your child’s costume in their backpack.  We will change into our costumes after gym right before we leave.

Thanks!

PEEK AT THE WEEK

• This week we worked on practicing the core vocab word “I”
• Mohamed had a birthday over the weekend so we celebrate by singing to him all day long! Happy Birthday Mohamed!!!
• We continued letter of the week by listening to letter “D” songs, reading books about things that start with the letter “D”, using bingo markers to outline the letter, and continuing our letter book by painting yellow ducks
• The children sang along with the story “Go Away Big Green Monster” on the iPad
• We had a therapy group with Mrs. Gallery and Ms. Staci during which we followed a recipe to make pumpkin dip. We ate the dip with graham crackers, pretzels, and apples
• We continued singing Halloween songs and reading Halloween stories including “Five Little Monkeys Trick or Treat”
• The children made a jack-o-lantern craft
• We read a book all about pumpkins and how they grow
• The children drew in their journals
• We explored our Halloween themed sensory bin that is filled with dry beans, pumpkin shaped ice cube trays, pretend snakes, rats, and eyeballs
• We worked on building stamina during daily 5
• The students are working HARD to independently feed themselves as much as possible during lunch and snack time. Please make sure you are giving your child the opportunity to work on these skills at home.  I know it can be messy and takes longer but it is very important they learn to feed themselves 🙂

REMINDERS

• If you have not yet returned your child’s emergency card please do so ASAP. It is very important we have the most updated information on file
• Return your parent/teacher conference sign-up sheet ASAP to get your preferred time slot

UPCOMING EVENTS

• October 31^st – Trick or Treat Field Trip
• November 3^rd –Half Day – Dismissal at 11:45
• November 7^th – No School – PD Day
• November 9^th, 15^th, 16^th – Conference Nights
• November 15^th – Late Start
• November 22^nd – 24^th – No School – Thanksgiving Break

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

 PEEK AT THE WEEK

• This week we worked on practicing core vocab words we have already gone over such as “go,” “want,” don’t,” “stop,” and “more”
• The school had a practice fire drill on Monday
• We had picture day on Tuesday. Everyone smiled nicely for the camera!
• We continued our pet theme this week by reading a book about cats. We made a chart about what they can do, what they have, and what they are
• We continued letter of the week by listening to letter “C” songs, reading books about things that start with the letter “C”, using bingo markers to outline the letter, and continuing our letter book by sponge painting cars
• The children practiced fine motor skills with puzzles, fine motor jars, and various art projects
• The children enjoyed the beautiful weather by playing outside on the playground in the afternoons after our rest time
• We continued singing Halloween songs and reading Halloween stories including “Go Away, Big Green Monster!”
• We also read the poem Five Little Pumpkins using a cookie sheet prop to follow along. The children also mixed yellow and red to make orange pumpkins
• The children drew in their journals
• We worked on building stamina during daily 5
• The students are working HARD to independently feed themselves as much as possible during lunch and snack time. Please make sure you are giving your child the opportunity to work on these skills at home.  I know it can be messy and takes longer but it is very important they learn to feed themselves 🙂

REMINDERS

• If you have not yet returned your child’s emergency card please do so ASAP. It is very important we have the most updated information on file
• Field trip permission slips are due on 10/27
• Return your parent/teacher conference sign-up sheet ASAP to get your preferred time slot

UPCOMING EVENTS

• October 26^th – Book Fair shopping @ 3:00
• October 26^th – PTA Halloween Party, 6 pm-7:30 pm
• October 31^st – Trick or Treat Field Trip

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

• If you have not yet turned in your child’s update emergency card it is very important that you send it back ASAP.  In case of an emergency the school needs to have the most updated information.
• Field trip permissions slips for trick or treating are due on Friday, October, 27th.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 18th is a late start morning.

Don’t forget tomorrow, Tuesday, October 17th is picture day! 

PEEK AT THE WEEK

• This week we worked on the core vocab word “not.” We practiced using the word “not” by sorting animals that would and would not make good pets and by talking about foods we like and do not like
• We continued our pet theme this week by talking about hard and soft animals (ex: turtles have hard shells, dogs have soft fur), we read a book about dogs and made a chart about what they can do, what they have, and what they are, we also did an art project where we made a cat out of rectangles, and we read a story about pet day at school and talked about the different characteristics of animals
• We continued letter of the week by listening to letter “B” songs, reading books about things that start with the letter “B”, using bingo markers to outline the letter, and continuing our letter book by painting butterflies
• The children practiced recognizing the first letters in their name with our interactive class book and by decorating the first letter of the names with Halloween stickers
• We have been learning about the color blue the last two weeks so we finger painted with blue paint, read an interactive color blue story, listened to songs about the color blue, and talked about things that are blue in the classroom
• We started singing Halloween songs and reading Halloween stories including Five Monkeys Go Trick or Treating

UPCOMING EVENTS

• October 17^th – Picture Day
• October 18^th – Late Start
• October 26^th – Book Fair shopping @ 3:00

PICTURES OF THE WEEK