Mrs. Schuit's Early Childhood Special Education

Upcoming Important Dates:

Tues. Nov. 5th – NO SCHOOL

Thurs. Nov. 7th – Evening Conferences – I will send home reminder notes

Tues. Nov. 12th – Evening Conferences

Thurs. Nov. 14th – Evening Conferences

Wed. Nov. 27th – No School

Thurs. Nov. 28th – No School

Fri. Nov. 29th – No School

This four day week we are learning about:

Theme: Outer Space

Songs: Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! We’re Going to the Moon (Turtle Interactive)

Shapes: Stars and Crescent/Moon

Letter H for Happy 🙂

Math: Count down 5-4-3-2-1 and printing number 1

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Thursday Oct. 31 – Halloween – As a school we are not to wear costumes but lets wear the colors orange and black
• Friday Nov. 1 – No school for the P.M. class – A.M. students will get out of school 30 minutes later at 11:45. Buses will be running late
• Thursday Nov. 7 – Evening Conferences – 4:00 – 7:00
• Tuesday Nov. 12 – Evening Conferences – 4:00 – 7:00
• Thursday Nov. 14 – Evening Conferences – 4:00 – 7:00
• Wednesday Nov. 27 – No School
• Thursday Nov. 28 – No School – Happy Thanksgiving
• Friday Nov. 29 – No School

I will send home the conference schedule this week. Thank you for signing up!

Theme: Continue with our emotions and we will work on monthly assessments.

Letter G – Grapes

Shapes and Colors – Review

Songs: 5 Little Pumpkins (Super Simple Songs), If your Happy and you know it (Super Simple Songs) and The Feelings Song by Miss Molly

Upcoming important dates:

• Friday Nov. 1 – No P.M. class – Teacher Duty Day
• Thursday Nov. 7 – Evening Conferences 4:00 -7:00
• Tuesday Nov. 12 – Evening Conferences 4:00 -7:00
• Thursday Nov. 14 – Evening Conferences 4:00 – 7:00
• Wednesday Nov. 27 – No School
• Thursday Nov. 28 – No School – Happy Thanksgiving
• Fri. Nov. 29 – No School

Each family is expected to sign up for a conference time unless you have recently had an IEP meeting with me.

Each evening the conferences are an half hour each starting at 4:00.

I will send home a sign up sheet on Tues.

This week we are working on the following:

Letter F – Fish

Colors – Black and Brown

Shapes – Star and Heart

Theme – Emotions – I will be send home a feeling chart that we will be using in school that you can use at home. The student can either say the name of the feeling or point to the picture. Each day I will ask the students “How are you feeling?” I will also send home a sheet explaining how a 3 year old or a 4 year old explores their social emotional feelings.

One Important Date this week:

Wednesday Oct. 16th is a late start for the A.M. class only. The bus will be there one hour later.

This week we are working on the following:

• Letter E – Elephant
• Colors – Orange and Black
• Shape – Oval
• Theme – Pumpkins, spiders and bats
• Song – Spider on the floor
• Poems – 5 Little Pumpkins sitting on a gate and Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Math is counting objects and number identification

Since the weather is getting cooler please remember to mark all new coats, hats and mittens that are coming to school.

It is also time to switch summer clothes for warmer clothes. Please send in pants, shirt, socks and underwear if you haven’t already. We will send the summer clothes back home but it might not be until the next day.

This is also friendly reminder that if your son or daughter is not feeling well please use your best judgement when sending them to school. I would hate for other students to catch something from a classmate.

Important Dates in October:

• Wednesday October 9th is picture day! Forms were sent home last week. Don’t forget to have our child bring their smile 🙂
• Friday October 11th – No school for the P.M. class. A.M. students will be arriving home late that day because they are in school until 11:45.
• Wednesday October 16th – Late start for the A.M. class only

This week we are working on the following:

• Letter D – Dinosaur
• Color – Blue
• Shape – Rectangle
• Theme: Spiders
• Song: Spider on the floor by Raffi
• Poem: Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Story: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Important Dates for OCTOBER:

• Wednesday Oct. 9th – Picture Day: Forms will be coming home tomorrow.
• Friday Oct. 11th – No school P.M. class : A.M. students will be arriving home later than usual because they stay an extra 25 minutes.
• Wed. Oct. 16th – Late Start for A.M. class only

This week we are working on the following:

• Letter C – Cat
• Colors – Red, Yellow, Orange and brown (fall leaf colors)
• Shapes – Triangle, circle and square
• Song – Orange, Yellow, Red and Brown by The Learning Station
• Song – Autumn Leaves are changing colors by The Learning Station
• Theme – Fall Leaves – Books about Fall
• We are working on using our picture schedule to help us move from one activity to the next.
• Daily we practice printing your first name or first letter
• For math we are counting and identifying shapes and numbers

Important date: Wednesday September 25th is a late start for the A.M. class. The bus will pick up one hour later but arrive back home at the normal time.

This week we are working on the following:

• Letter B – Bear
• Color – Brown
• Shape – Triangle
• Story – Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle
• Poem – Way up High in the Apple Tree
• Letters in our first name – Identifying and Printing

Thank you to the two parents who sent in family pictures.

Important Dates:

Friday Sept. 20th No School for the P.M. class

Wednesday Sept. 25th is a late start for the A.M. class only. The bus will come one hour later but the drop off will be the same time.

The theme this week is about our families and apples.

It would be nice if every student could bring in a family picture to keep at school. You can send in a picture or text me a picture and I can print it. I would like to hang them up in the room. Please label the family members for us.

The letter this week is the letter A for Apple.

The color is red and the shape is a circle.

Poem: Way up High in the Apple Tree – Can be found on you tube

I did this blog on Sunday but realized it never went out. I wondered why no one was sending in family pictures. 🙂

Open House is this Thursday. September 12th from 6:00-7:30. All family members are invited to visit the classroom with their child. This is not a conference only a meet and greet! Can’t wait to see everyone Thursday evening!

This week will continue to work on the letters of our first name. Identification and printing .

The new Nursery Rhyme is Jack and Jill.

We are also working on the five Classroom Rules. Each day we will be making a project to help us remember the classroom rules.

1. Eyes Looking
2. Ears Listening
3. Hands Helping
4. Feet Walking
5. Voices Quiet

The students will get a copy of the Rules Thursday Night.

Important Dates:

Thursday Sept. 12 Open House from 6:00-7:30

Friday Sept. 20th No School for the P.M. Class

Theme of the Week: All About Me

Literacy: What’s the First Letter of My Name?

Math: How many Letters in My Name?

Nursery Rhyme: Humpty Dumpty