Thank you everyone for your help with Halloween. It looks like we will have plenty of treats and plenty of help! You are all appreciated.
For information on costumes, please be sure to revisit my previous post on that topic. This week we will light our Diyas and learn a bit more about the Indian New Year, which begins tomorrow. It is called Diwali. We are on Unit 1 Week 5 in Reading. The Home-School connection is a great place to print materials and have your child practice what he/she is learning at school. The digital books and games are excellent as well. This week's reading question is, "How does your body move?" We will be reading about how animals and people move. Movement is a key component in our classroom. We take lots of movement breaks, and we learn to speed up our body when needed and to slow down our body when needed as well. We are learning about what speeds or zones our body needs to be in for different parts of our day, and we learn to regulate our body accordingly. We talk about the Red zone being very active, the Yellow zone being "in between" and the Green zone being calming. We do many gross motor and breathing exercises to maximize our learning. We will begin a new math unit. This unit will focus on adding and subtracting with larger numbers, showing how we get an answer to a problem (moving beyond our fingers or "I just know it".) We are learning to "show what we know". The following week will be our Artist in Residency, and it will culminate with an Open House and a performance. Information came home about this last week, and more information will come home on Thursday. Be on the lookout for that. At the Open House, I will have conference sign ups. I am hoping that I will have the opportunity to sit down with each family and to share your child's growth. After that initial sign up, I will post any remaining times on my "Sign Up" page. A few essentials that you can be working on with your child. 1. Reading to your child. Your child wants to share what he/she knows about reading, but it is also important to read material above your child's reading level to your child. Reading picture and vocabulary rich books to your child will go a long way with your child being a life long reader, increase vocabulary, and increase curiosity. Plus, it makes memories. 2. Handwriting and the ease at which your child writes is so very important. Be sure that your child is forming letters and numbers from the top or middle to the bottom. Many children are making letters from the bottom up. This slows down their writing fluency and increases reversals. We work on our handwriting daily! 3. Drawing and Coloring. Drawing and coloring builds stamina, challenges children to notice details and to make choices. Many children are rushing through this component of our work. Encourage your child to use more than one color. Ex. If your child draws a person and then is coloring the person, encourage your child to use different colors for the shirt, the pants, the shoes, the hair. Children at this level are ready and expected to use multiple colors in a drawing or coloring activity. 4. Notice Numbers. Numbers are everywhere. Use a number on a sign or in the store as an opportunity for a challenge. You see the number 29. How many tens in 29? How many ones? What is one more? What is one less? What is ten more? What is ten less? Monday will be the 40th day of school. Your children have grown so very much! Comments are closed.
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