Weekly Newsletter
Dear Parents,
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 an amazing book that takes you through the emotional roller coaster a child might experience when coming to school for the first time. By integrating social-emotional books into our reading time we were able to talk about feelings such as sadness, anger, and happiness 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 today'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.
Best regards,
Ms. Dani
Important Reminders
- Welcome Back BBQ
- Curriculum Night
- Family Picture
Books, Rhymes, and Poems
Making Modeling Clay
Building Puzzles!
Cutting Skills!
Garden!
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?