Sneak Peek of the Week
Week 2 PK 3.3
Learning to manage our emotions and transmit what we are feeling can be really hard, especially when you still don’t know the right words to use to express them. At this age, children tend to react negatively when they don’t understand what is going on inside them. Crying, kicking, and screaming are some of the reactions we see when they are not able to voice what they are actually feeling.
The first few weeks of school, these emotions are triggered due to the lack of knowledge of routines and the new experience of entering a new school. “The Kissing Hand” by Audrey Penn and “Wemberly Worried” by Kevin Henkes are two amazing books that take you through the emotional rollercoaster a child might experience when coming to school for the first time. By integrating these two books into our reading time and our arts center, we were able to talk about feelings such as sad, angry, and happy and how to manage them.
As soon as we taught our student how to communicate their feelings, we had to come up with classroom agreements. On Friday’s morning discussion we played “Big Rule, little rule” where we talked about specific behaviors that will help us create that caring and loving environment we all wish to have when coming to school.
We had such an amazing time talking and getting to know each other.
If you have any questions, however big or small please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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Books of the Week
RHYMES!
DURING SPECIALS
A note from Ms. Sharon
Worms: A Farmer’s Best Friend
Goal Teach students about life cycles by learning about worms and the ways they benefit the garden and farms. Through reading literature and completing hands-on activities, the class will conduct a worm investigation and observe that the organisms (and other animals) need food, air and space to grow.
Lesson: Through hands-on activities, the class will conduct a worm investigation and observe that the organism need food, air and space to grow.
Gardening Activity # 1: Children will have a worm exploration by reviewing fun worm facts
Worm Facts: Worms don’t have lungs like you and me, but instead they breathe through their skin! Worms also don’t have ears, but they feel sound through their whole bodies! Show the students the worm anatomy chart. Do people and worms have any similarities? Differences?
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Note from Ms. Marta
Aside from practicing some basic dance moves like ‘slide’, ‘reach high’ and ‘down low’ we got to experience moving our bodies to the rhythm of the popular song ‘I like to move it’ while we enjoyed a game of statues. When the music was paused we tried to keep as still as possible because it was time to freeze!
We got to say hello the ‘yoga way’ by putting our hands in prayer pose on our hearts and bowing to each other saying ‘Namaste’. After settling on our matts, taking deep breaths and warming up we got to challenge our balance by pretending we were very strong rooted trees standing in a very strong wind
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Best
Marta