Upcoming Dates and Announcements:
February 6th: 11:30 Early Dismissal- Winter Long Weekend begins!
February 9th-10th: No School
February 11th: Classes Resume
Friday, February 13th will be our Valentine’s Day celebration! We will have a class party and a valentine exchange. If you would like to help provide items for the party please click here.
Please send in a valentine box for your child anytime the week of Valentine’s Day. We love when the children take part in creating their own box with you! Please make sure the box is large enough to hold plenty of valentines- think adult size shoebox! Please send in 22 valentines for all the children in the class. You may leave the cards blank, write each child’s name or even let your child practice writing the names of the other children in the class on their cards! Here is a class roster:
Snack helper: Clara
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Hello JK families
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky-unbidden-and seems like a thing of wonder.”-Susan Orlean
Piles and piles of snow and THREE snow days were not exactly how we thought we’d begin our week! Winter decided to transform our world with a blanket of white and shift our best laid plans as well. We hope your time spent at home resulted in lasting memories! When we returned to school on Thursday we wasted no time and jumped right back into our germ studies. The children took some time to revisit their germ drawings and sculptures and added colorful paint to their 3D salt dough creations. The results were wonderful!
Germs Studies
Language and Literacy
In language and literacy the children played “Erase Me Rhyming.” They were given a picture of a person and given a rhyming riddle to solve. They then had to erase the rhyming word. For example:
Why is there a bear in a chair sitting in my ________? (hair)
I think that bug just might land right in my ________. (hand)
Oh dear oh dear, there is a bee near my ______. (ear)
Math
In math the children were given big bowls of snow, shown number cards and asked to scoop that number into their own bowl. This was a great way for them to practice number recognition and counting!
Social-Emotional Learning
In social-emotional learning the children reviewed the emotions, sad, happy, angry, loved, silly, and excited. We discussed how emotions come and go throughout our day and that we can feel several if not all of them in one day’s time! We then played a roll the dice game with emotions. After the children rolled the die, and identified the emotion, they were invited to share a story about a time they remember feeling that way. The stories ranged from feeling loved while cooking with Mommy to feeling silly while wrestling with Daddy!
Other fun moments from the week!
