There are many different kinds of activities on our blog, but all show your youngsters having a wonderful time. Remember sometimes the photos are not necessarily in the same order as the text, depending upon when they were taken.
First are the experiences with shaving cream. This is really a sensory project from the smell to its feel. It starts with the plain white cream on an individual tray. Dots of food coloring are added and then all is swirled together by using a pencil. A plain piece of paper is put down on it and pressed with hands and then taken off. Excess cream is scraped off with a ruler. A beautiful design is revealed. These will be the covers of our year books. From now until June, as mentioned last week with our self-portraits, the teachers save so many art projects to make you a "forever keepsake" of your child's work in the Whole Notes room.
We have told you that mandarin is virtual. You will see the group in their chairs listening to the mandarin teacher. She has sent some pictures of what she is helping them to learn. They have been forwarded to you in a separate email. The preschoolers are saying "my name is", hello teacher, and are counting in mandarin and identifying color names and weather descriptions.
Our new friend Zayden is featured building with some small blocks. The Whole Note class now has 12 children, 7 girls and 5 boys.
To begin the fall season our focus was fun with apples. Everyone tasted 3 kinds of apples: red gala, green granny smith and yellow golden delicious. Descriptive words such as sweet, crunchy, hard, juicy and the like were recorded for a language arts experience. Finally math was tied in on a graph so that each of our friends favorite apple was recorded. The chart is on our classroom door. If you check you will see that red was the winner. Apple trees were drawn. A trick way to create a tree trunk with branches is to trace your arm and hand. Apples were added by using crayons. It is interesting to note how each child's tree is different. These are being placed in the portfolios.
Brigitte filled the letter box for "B". She is proudly showing a book titled "Brigitte" and the letter box with the "B" showing. Brigitte did a great job. You can see a class member writing and drawing in the letter book. Next Wednesday another friend will bring us a box full of items that begin with "C".
Another group of children are coloring apples to glue on their Johnny Appleseed pot hats. A little history lesson with pictures of Johnny Appleseed and his mission was presented at circle. We have a few preschoolers modeling their creations. Friday is journal day so a view of some illustrator/authors is here.
Finally is our birthday girl Riya. She came all dressed up for her celebration and truly looks like a princess sporting her crown. Her cupcakes were a hit at Friday's snack. Happy 5th Birthday to Riya.
Also here is our bulletin board that faces our bathroom. The class decorated frames for their first day of school photos. The kids love looking at these while waiting in line for turns for hygiene. Yes, you will receive these in June also.
Please remember to send in silverware with lunch. With Friday's pizza water bottles are needed. Some extra food to go with the pizza, such as vegetables or fruit, is a great idea. You must please be mindful to not send in food that contain nuts or that have a label that reads "may contain nuts or can be made in a facility that could process nuts on shared equipment." A good example are cereal or granola bars. These items will be sent back home. Teachers read all labels as we have a friend who is allergic to some nuts.
Remember there is no school tomorrow, Monday, the 28th. We welcome the group back on Tuesday. We wish all our Jewish families an easy fast and a sweet, happy and healthy New Year.
Rolene and Jackie
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