October's Not So Spooky News
The Learning Cottage - 2023
Fall Magic
In This Edition:
- Happy Birthday Little Pumpkins
- School Portraits
- Dates To Remember
- October Curricula
- Family Of The Month
- Teacher Of The Month
Happy Birthday Little Pumpkins
Donald 10/8
Finley C. 10/12
Eleanor 10/14
Ethan 10/16
AnaLucia 10/16
Morgan 10/17
Addison 10/18
Leo 10/22
Jillianna 10/27
School Portraits October 18th - October 21st
- Sign Up Sent Out: September 20th
- Sign Up Due: September 26th
- Photo Dates: October 2nd-5th
Stop here, Important Dates To Remember!
Fire Truck/Firefighter Visit
Pre-K and K classrooms will enjoy a visit to the firetruck out in our parking lot.
Not So Spooky Parade
- 4:00 pm
- Around School Property In costume
- All Ages To Parade - Yes, even the babies with parents walking with them
- Additional details in the link below
- Infant and Toddler Families Please See Link Below For Details To Participate!
Magic Pumpkin Patch
- Children will plant magic pumpkin seeds on their playground
- That afternoon, pumpkins have grown with child love and magic seeds!
- Your child will decorate their pumpkins and take them home
Enjoy the Magic!
October Curricula Overview
Infants
Arts & Music:
Infants will explore through play based learning the color Black, all month long. Try this song with your infant; while included a basket of materials that are Black (and also safe) to play!
(Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”)
We know the color black.
We know the color black.
cats and bats and spiders, too.
We know the color black.
Sensory & Motor Exploration:
Infants senses and motor skills will be delighted and overloaded, with fun of course! Bubble wrap crawling courses, grassy play mats, ice play, sand paper painting and feather exploration are only a few examples of how our babies brains will be working through play!
Stories & Sign language:
Sign Language:
"Black" "Square" "See" "Hear" "Touch" & "Smell"
Want to sign with your child?
https://www.babysignlanguage.com/
Our little ones will enjoy stories such as: "Fall (Touch & Feel)", "Fun Fall Day", "What Can I Smell" and "What Can I Hear."
Toddler I & II
Arts & Science meld together!
Toddlers will use sensory and motor development to explore our 5 senses. Each week they will navigate senses such as sight, hearing, touch and smell! Activities such as bumpy ball rolling, crawling on bubble wrap and exploring "wet" and "gooey" sensory bags will ignite their learning. Students will start their journey with the color black and painting or gluing items such as black cats, bats and spiders. We have not forgotten the benefits of musical play and the grand opportunity to talk about our ears and sound!
Early Literacy
Language development will shine through stories such as "Brown Bear What Do You Hear," "Polar Bear What Do You See?" and "Seven Orange Pumpkins." Utilizing the signs and color below, children will be introduced to a brand new season, Fall!
Color: Black
Sign Language: "Black" "Square" "See" "Hear" "Touch" & "Smell"
Want to sign with your child?
Jr Preschool I & II
Arts:
Week by week, Jr Preschool will be introduced to each of their 5 senses through the season of Fall. Utilizing the arts, we will see much of the color Black while creating cats and black birds. Additionally, students will hear sounds from the instruments that they create and leaves that they crunch! Students will also create a "touch book" by exploring and pasting multi sensory items and explore their sense of smell while creating art such as spice painting.
Math & Science:
Children will explore math and science through musical adventures such as a song called "One Little Owl." Counting to 3; even diving into the sensory overload of pumpkin guts to discover and explore a basic living life cycle.
Early Literacy:
Language will be celebrated through stories such as "What Can I Hear?" "What Can I Smell?" & "I Love Fall;" as well as the sign language listed below.
Color: Black
Shape: Square
Number: 3
Sign Language: "Black" "Square" "See" "Hear" "Touch" & "Smell"
Want to sign with your child? https://www.babysignlanguage.com/
Preschool
Early Literacy:
Children in the Preschool Classroom will practice Phonemic Awareness, writing skills and the correlation of their weekly vocabulary through motor movement, poems and games. Finally, they will have fun creating hands-on letter projects to correlate the letter sounds. Students will also sort Capital and lowercase letters.
Stories such as “There Was an Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything”, “The Five Senses”, “Animals at Night”, ‘Leaf Man” and “Pumpkin Day. Pumpkin Night” will take them on a journey through their five senses, the Fall Season and Nocturnal Animals
Math & Science:
Insects and Plants
In Math & Science, children will use Animals and Fall themed miniatures to create numbers 1 - 3 in ten frames. By week 3 children will begin using simple games and stories to manipulate addition sentences.
Arts & Dramatic Play: Week by week students will study each sense through creative and hands- on activities inspired by the fall season. In dramatic play, students will dress for the fall season and rake leaves.
Numbers: 3
Shape: Square
Art: Five Senses
Pre - Kindergarten
Literacy: Proper Use of Capital Letters/ Capital vs. Lowercase
Letters of the week: Pp, Ff, Cc, & Rr
Sight Words: an, at, be
Students will study each letter of the week and phonemic awareness to correlate. Students will explore classmates’ names that begin with each letter as an introduction to the proper use of capital letters. Finally, they will begin sorting Pp words/ names into lowercase and uppercase categories. They will also continue their work of phonemic awareness and sight words through fun fall themed games! Stories such as “There Was an Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything”, “The Five Senses”, “Animals at Night”, ‘The Carrot Seed” and “Pumpkin Day. Pumpkin Night”, “The Winking, Blinking, Sea” will take them on a journey through their five senses, the Fall Season, Carnivorous plants, Bioluminescence and more!
Math/ Science- Insects, Plants & Decomposition, Simple Addition and Subtraction: Week by week students will explore the world of insects, plants and decomposition. Utilizing the nature around them and the life cycles students will explore simple addition and subtraction Sentences and skills.
Art- Five Senses
Week by week students will study each sense through creative and hands- on activities inspired by the fall season.
Private Kindergarten
Kindergarten Academics
Literacy I Can:
Students will explore the concepts of: letter recognition and their sounds, sentence structure, sight words and sentence deconstruction.
- "I can identify letters in the alphabet by both upper and lower case."
- "I can identify the difference between words and letters in sentences."
- "I can identify sentence structure such as: the first and last word in it, the concept of the sentence and the punctuation."
- "I understand what rhyming is and can use my hearing to sound out other rhyming words."
- "I can identify and use my first 10 sight words in a sentence."
Math I Can:
Students will explore the concepts of: number recognition (1-20), review shapes and constructing them, and measuring .
- "I can identify numbers 1-20 numerals and by name."
- "I understand that shapes have both edges and points and I can build them by using these."
- "I can use addition. subtraction and number comparison equations."
- "I can measure by: length, width, capacity and height, and know the difference between them."
Science and Cultural Studies I Can:
Students will explore the concepts of: all things fall and their Five Senses.
- "I can identify my five senses and how I can use them."
- "I can identify both an apple and pumpkins parts if I were to dissect them."
- "I can acknowledge and understand the different weather patterns of fall and why they exist."
- "I can describe fall nature items by: measuring, feel, words and description."
Enrichment Programs - October
Character Development
Courage
With the Not So Spooky Costume parade around the corner, students will explore the idea of bravery and courage through stories and activities that encourage them to keep trying and stand tall!
Private Kindergarten:
Introducing Drama with Ms. Savannah!
Ms. Savannah Holds will guide our students through storytelling all month long and even introduce Shakespeare!
Character Development:
Now that students have an understanding of what it means to be a “Social Detective”, Children will enter the world of Superflex through a story called “Superflex takes on Rock Brain & the Unthinkables!” Children will learn that Superflex is not real; but rather, brain powers they will learn & create to become their best social/ caring selves! Vocabular, Games and Activities will help to reinforce and define this idea.
Life Skills
Fire Safety
October is Fire Safety Awareness month! Children will practice fire drills, sort hot and cold items, search for hazards though stories and picture clues, learn to crawl under smoke, understand the importance a family fire plan and meet real firefighters!
**Please take the time to make an at home plan for your family**
Private Kindergarten:
Physical Education:
Quarter 1- Story Time Soccer
“There are two unique classes that parents can expect. The main class is one where the Coach will tell a story and engage the group by modeling the skills as the kids follow along. The coach will walk around and correct the kids both verbally and physically until the child has gotten the skill right or made an attempt at it. The skill difficulty level increases as the child's skill level increases. This way a child who is less skilled will still receive as much attention as one that is more.”
Language Development
Preschool & Pre - K - Spanish Through Vocabulary:
Children will explore Spanish Vocabulary words that correlate with their five senses: eyes, ears, hands, mouth.
Private Kindergarten- Spanish Champs:
Level 1, Lesson 4 & 5
Colors & Numbers: Each lesson, each week will include songs, activities and stories based on Colors and numbers. Teachers should gage each student's understanding, week by week, to properly implement each lesson and activity between in the lesson book.
Family Of The Month
Teacher Of The Month
The Zolli Family
The Zolli Family had this to say about the their experience at The Learning Cottage:
"Our family chose and continues to choose the Learning Cottage because of their unwavering commitment to providing a balanced education as well as support to all families. Each classroom finds new and unique ways to encourage diversity and individuality while making education fun, and allows us to watch our son blossom each step of the way. We enjoy pick up time the most because he loves talking about his teachers, friends and everything he learned that day".
Thank you Zolli family, for your love and amazing support.
Mrs. Erica
Mrs. Erica is newer to childcare and boy is she a natural! She is excited to be working with our twos in JP 1! She has a daughter of her own who is currently enrolled with us too. Erica has always enjoyed working with children. She is passionate about giving children positive learning experiences and it shows inside her classroom through daily interactions and creative lessons.
She loves gardening and has a small garden of her own, she has a goal of growing and preserving veggies for her home. She also enjoys yoga, biking and the beach.
We are delighted to have you and your family part of The Learning Cottage.
As always,
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