It was so nice meeting with you all in person or over the phone to discuss your children and our TK curriculum. We look forward to meeting the goals we set together for your children and enjoying our time together throughout the year. If you have any questions or want to check in with us, please feel free to contact us.
We started our USC curriculum this week in small groups. We brought the children over to discuss the concepts of alone and groups. We started off asking if the children knew what those words meant and if they were able to explain it. We asked, “What does it mean to be alone?” Some of the children said: “When no one plays with you.” “These two like each other and this one is alone.” “The bees are together making honey.” “The birds are alone and together. They are flying alone, but they are together in a group.” “This is a family, they are together.” “It doesn’t have anything next to it.” “When you go to the bathroom without a teacher, you are alone.” “When you have no friends or nothing to do.” “It means you are lonely.” Some answers came from some observations with pictures that were presented to them of things being alone or put into a group. After that we asked, “What does it mean to be together or in a group? This is what some said: “Happy!” “It means to be with a friend.” “It means to be together.” They were excited to sit in a small group and look at pictures and have a nice discussion. We are looking forward to continuing this learning, and experiencing this further by collecting evidence outside the classroom using the language about alone and together in a group. This week we began our literacy/language exploration with the letter Ll. Children were asked which of our lines were used to make an Ll. Some comments included: “It’s only a line.” “You use a big line and a little line.” “The big line goes up and down.” Along with being able to visually recognize the capital and lower case Ll, the children are learning the sound of the letter. This is done by using Zoo Phonics and Jolly Jingles. The children were challenged to guess pictures that were on our L picture cards. Provided with three clues, children were called on to make a logical guess as to what was on the picture card. Some responses were: “You know that’s a lion.” “A Ladybug!” While others were not as easy, the children helped each other by reminding their friends that their answer did not begin with Ll. As a follow-up, each child made a picture of an L item and wrote the word on the same paper. These will be kept for our literacy wall. To foster the correct formation of the letter, L centers were set up throughout the week. These centers included; sand trays, jewels to form the letters, plastalina and wet/dry. Wet/dry is where the children use chalk to form the letter, then they use a small damp sponge to erase what they formed with chalk. Books that had concepts that began with the letter Ll were also read aloud. A few books in particular that was read was called, Ladybugs, and Lana Llama’s Little Lamb. After we learn each letter, we will be making pages of words as they wish to add to their own book. Each page they can draw a picture of a word that starts with the letter, and then they can write the word below. This will help with their writing skills and reinforce the letter formation and get them writing more onto paper. These pages will then be saved for each child and after we have learned all the letters, this will then be their own word book. We will have them collected up on the wall for the children to start reading to each other if they want. We look forward to seeing these books come together. We began working with the children on signing in daily. We wrote their names in highlighter and with a green and red marker we marked where they need to start the letter (green) and where they need to stop the letter (red). They enjoy the process and we can even see when they are writing the letters outside of their name, they are forming them the proper way and we see them writing their name on some of their work they create at the art center. We have almost finished putting our shabbat table together. The children picked out a fabric and traced their hand on to cut out. A few children helped place the hands on the table in a way they would all fit together. They glued tissue paper onto a kiddish cup to make it look like stained glass. We were excited to have this finished just in time to have our first shabbat child of the year. Shabbat Shalom, Rachel and Linda Reminders: -Especially on days we have PE (Wednesday and Thursday), please have your child wear close toe shoes. -NO SCHOOL Monday, November 18thfor Teacher Professional Development Day! -December 19that 9:15 am in Room 3 class Hanukkah Party! -Please NO nut products in our lunches. We are a NUT SAFE school. Thank you. Shabbat Shalom, Rachel and Linda
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