This week at school the class did lots more fun things with shapes and colors. The students worked on rhyming with color words such as “green, bean” and “square, bear”. The big hit was in the block center where the students were provided with a variety of balls and ramps make of PVC pipes sliced in half. The children set these up around the block center, and then rolled the different balls down the ramps. This was a great activity for using descriptive vocabulary, such as “fast, slow, down, up, higher, lower, on, under, and through”.
More Vocab: square, circle, rectangle, oval, star, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon, trapezoid, small, medium, and large, ramp, tunnel, cylinder, roll.
Centers: Magic painting: paint on white paper with water colors and watch as a shape magically appears on the paper (we used white crayon to draw the shapes on before the activity). Science table, balls/ramps center, practice corner, using shape sorters at the shelf toys center, and finding shapes around the classroom and checking it off on a clipboard. At Look what I can do, the children practiced cutting shapes which ranged from straight lines to circles. Some of the students started drawing in their “Science Journals”. Their first task was to draw a picture of the balls and ramps center to illustrate what they did there. The children did a great job with this for their first time, and will continue to be given opportunities to draw more in their journals.
Speech and Language: This week we worked on using shapes to draw a bear. We then talked about bears and their parts. The children enjoyed reading Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. We will use this story for the next few weeks to address speech and language skills. The /r/ sound will be worked on during this time. We were growling like bears.
PT Group (Please see back for OT news)
This week the students used scooter boards to “deliver” shapes to the correct large wooden cut out shape. Each student picked up one shape, rode down on their scooter however they wanted…some on their bellies, their knees, or their bottoms. They then matched the shape with its larger match, and went back for another shape. This was a lot of work, but everyone worked together and got it done!
New class pets!
New this week: two fire-bellied toads in an aquarium at the science center. The children enjoy watching the frogs hop and swim in the water.
THANK YOU’s!
A Big thanks to Nate and his Dad for trimming branches on the playground last week. He also volunteered to do some other projects along with Mr. Beck from the afternoon class!
Another big thanks to Mrs. Savinelli for making a GREAT apple tasting graph and donating apples, mini pumpkins, and a large pumpkin to the class. These will be put to good use next week…tasting the apples and charting our favorites and making applesauce for snack.
Reminders:
§ Sneakers & comfortable clothes every Wednesday for PT group.
§ Comfortable shoes every day for outside playtime and fire drills.
§ Parent conferences will be held Nov 1 and Nov 4. Please verify your time and let me know if you need to change your time. There will be no afternoon class on these days.
Looking Ahead
The last week of October will be about farms, apples, and fall time. We will be tasting apples, and making applesauce. We will be having a small Halloween party Friday October 29th. You will hear from the room parents with more information, as it gets nearer. If you would like to volunteer in the classroom to help with a project involving one of the upcoming topics, please let us know.
Website: To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
Have a great weekend!
Friday, October 29, 2004
A Peek at the Week
Apples, pumpkins, and farms were the topics this week. The children made paper apples or leaves by tearing paper and gluing it on the apple or leaf shape. These are displayed in the classroom. Thanks to Mrs. Savinelli for supplying a great apple tasting chart, the students each got to try a green (granny smith), red delicious, and a yellow delicious apple. They told a teacher their favorite, and their name was written on an apple of that color. Check out photos at the website.
On Thursday some of the class chose to help make applesauce. The children helped cut the apples using plastic knives and put the sugar, water, and cinnamon in the dish. We microwaved it for approximately 15 minutes (depends on how many apples you use). The children enjoyed tasting the applesauce, which was delicious! This would be a great activity to do at home: talking about amounts such as a little, more, less, and descriptive words such as pouring, stirring, and cooking. (Recipe on back)
Many of the students brought in their Halloween costumes for show and tell this week. The child showed his/her costume and told us why s/he chose that costume, as well as what s/he was planning to do on Halloween. See photos on the web.
The Halloween party on Friday included a pumpkin project, yummy snacks, and goodie bags. Nate and his Mom gave each child a ghost lollipop, and Meghan and her Mom gave each child ghost or pumpkin slinky.
Centers: Farm animals and barn, pattern block pictures, shelf toys, kitchen, coloring, Look what I can do, and sensory table with pumpkin “guts”.
Apples and pumpkins were at one end of the room, and the children had to ride their scooter boards to the other end and get a certain number of apples and pumpkins as Renee told them. It got tricky when she started asking for different numbers, such as one apple and three pumpkins. This was a great listening activity as well as movement.
New class pets!
New this week: two fire-bellied toads in an aquarium at the science center. The children enjoy watching the frogs hop and swim in the water. Anyone willing to pick up crickets for the frogs one week, please let us know.
THANK YOU’s!
Thanks to Mrs. Savinelli for the great apple tasting chart, and for supplying apples, mini pumpkins, and a class pumpkin for carving at the party, as well as the goodies. Thanks to Mrs. Schmidt for her help organizing the party, contacting parents regarding show and tell, and her help the day of the party, as well as the goodies! Thanks to those parents who provided the snacks: Ryan’s Mom and Angel’s Mom.
Reminders/Help needed:
Parent conferences will be held Nov 1 and Nov 4. Please verify your time and let me know if you need to change your time. There will be no afternoon class on these days.
Help needed: We are running low on our class supply of spoons and napkins for snack each day. Can you help? Thanks.
Looking Ahead
In November our topics will be: Finish up with apples and leaves, Farm/Tools, Friendship/Thanksgiving, and Furniture and utensils.
Website: To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
Email: knagy@cromwellct.org
Have a safe and fun Halloween weekend!
On Thursday some of the class chose to help make applesauce. The children helped cut the apples using plastic knives and put the sugar, water, and cinnamon in the dish. We microwaved it for approximately 15 minutes (depends on how many apples you use). The children enjoyed tasting the applesauce, which was delicious! This would be a great activity to do at home: talking about amounts such as a little, more, less, and descriptive words such as pouring, stirring, and cooking. (Recipe on back)
Many of the students brought in their Halloween costumes for show and tell this week. The child showed his/her costume and told us why s/he chose that costume, as well as what s/he was planning to do on Halloween. See photos on the web.
The Halloween party on Friday included a pumpkin project, yummy snacks, and goodie bags. Nate and his Mom gave each child a ghost lollipop, and Meghan and her Mom gave each child ghost or pumpkin slinky.
Centers: Farm animals and barn, pattern block pictures, shelf toys, kitchen, coloring, Look what I can do, and sensory table with pumpkin “guts”.
Apples and pumpkins were at one end of the room, and the children had to ride their scooter boards to the other end and get a certain number of apples and pumpkins as Renee told them. It got tricky when she started asking for different numbers, such as one apple and three pumpkins. This was a great listening activity as well as movement.
New class pets!
New this week: two fire-bellied toads in an aquarium at the science center. The children enjoy watching the frogs hop and swim in the water. Anyone willing to pick up crickets for the frogs one week, please let us know.
THANK YOU’s!
Thanks to Mrs. Savinelli for the great apple tasting chart, and for supplying apples, mini pumpkins, and a class pumpkin for carving at the party, as well as the goodies. Thanks to Mrs. Schmidt for her help organizing the party, contacting parents regarding show and tell, and her help the day of the party, as well as the goodies! Thanks to those parents who provided the snacks: Ryan’s Mom and Angel’s Mom.
Reminders/Help needed:
Parent conferences will be held Nov 1 and Nov 4. Please verify your time and let me know if you need to change your time. There will be no afternoon class on these days.
Help needed: We are running low on our class supply of spoons and napkins for snack each day. Can you help? Thanks.
Looking Ahead
In November our topics will be: Finish up with apples and leaves, Farm/Tools, Friendship/Thanksgiving, and Furniture and utensils.
Website: To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
Email: knagy@cromwellct.org
Have a safe and fun Halloween weekend!
Thursday, October 21, 2004
A Peek at the Week
This week at school the class did lots more fun things with shapes and colors. The students worked on rhyming with color words such as “green, bean” and “square, bear”. The big hit was in the block center where the students were provided with a variety of balls and ramps make of PVC pipes sliced in half. The children set these up around the block center, and then rolled the different balls down the ramps. This was a great activity for using descriptive vocabulary, such as “fast, slow, down, up, higher, lower, on, under, and through”.
** be sure to go to the photos section to see pictures of this and other fun activities this week**
http://photos.yahoo.com/ecsprekclass@sbcglobal.net
More Vocab: square, circle, rectangle, oval, star, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon, trapezoid, small, medium, and large, ramp, tunnel, cylinder, roll.
Centers: Magic painting: paint on white paper with water colors and watch as a shape magically appears on the paper (we used white crayon to draw the shapes on before the activity). Science table, balls/ramps center, practice corner, using shape sorters at the shelf toys center, and finding shapes around the classroom and checking it off on a clipboard. At Look what I can do, the children practiced cutting shapes which ranged from straight lines to circles. Some of the students started drawing in their “Science Journals”. Their first task was to draw a picture of the balls and ramps center to illustrate what they did there. The children did a great job with this for their first time, and will continue to be given opportunities to draw more in their journals.
Speech and Language: This week we worked on using shapes to draw a bear. We then talked about bears and their parts. The children enjoyed reading Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. We will use this story for the next few weeks to address speech and language skills. The /r/ sound will be worked on during this time. We were growling like bears.
PT Group: This week the students used scooter boards to “deliver” shapes to the correct large wooden cut out shape. Each student picked up one shape, rode down on their scooter however they wanted…some on their bellies, their knees, or their bottoms. They then matched the shape with its larger match, and went back for another shape. This was a lot of work, but everyone worked together and got it done!
THANK YOU’s!
A Big thanks to Nate and his Dad for trimming branches on the playground last week. He also volunteered to do some other projects along with Mr. Beck from the afternoon class!
Another big thanks to Mrs. Savinelli for making a GREAT apple tasting graph and donating apples, mini pumpkins, and a large pumpkin to the class. These will be put to good use next week…tasting the apples and charting our favorites and making applesauce for snack.
New class pets!
New this week: two fire-bellied toads in an aquarium at the science center. The children enjoy watching the frogs hop and swim in the water.
** be sure to go to the photos section to see pictures of this and other fun activities this week**
http://photos.yahoo.com/ecsprekclass@sbcglobal.net
More Vocab: square, circle, rectangle, oval, star, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon, trapezoid, small, medium, and large, ramp, tunnel, cylinder, roll.
Centers: Magic painting: paint on white paper with water colors and watch as a shape magically appears on the paper (we used white crayon to draw the shapes on before the activity). Science table, balls/ramps center, practice corner, using shape sorters at the shelf toys center, and finding shapes around the classroom and checking it off on a clipboard. At Look what I can do, the children practiced cutting shapes which ranged from straight lines to circles. Some of the students started drawing in their “Science Journals”. Their first task was to draw a picture of the balls and ramps center to illustrate what they did there. The children did a great job with this for their first time, and will continue to be given opportunities to draw more in their journals.
Speech and Language: This week we worked on using shapes to draw a bear. We then talked about bears and their parts. The children enjoyed reading Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. We will use this story for the next few weeks to address speech and language skills. The /r/ sound will be worked on during this time. We were growling like bears.
PT Group: This week the students used scooter boards to “deliver” shapes to the correct large wooden cut out shape. Each student picked up one shape, rode down on their scooter however they wanted…some on their bellies, their knees, or their bottoms. They then matched the shape with its larger match, and went back for another shape. This was a lot of work, but everyone worked together and got it done!
THANK YOU’s!
A Big thanks to Nate and his Dad for trimming branches on the playground last week. He also volunteered to do some other projects along with Mr. Beck from the afternoon class!
Another big thanks to Mrs. Savinelli for making a GREAT apple tasting graph and donating apples, mini pumpkins, and a large pumpkin to the class. These will be put to good use next week…tasting the apples and charting our favorites and making applesauce for snack.
New class pets!
New this week: two fire-bellied toads in an aquarium at the science center. The children enjoy watching the frogs hop and swim in the water.
Reminders:
Sneakers & comfortable clothes every Wednesday for PT group.
Comfortable shoes every day for outside playtime and fire drills.Parent conferences will be held Nov 1 and Nov 4. Please verify your time and let me know if you need to change your time. There will be no afternoon class on these days.
Looking Ahead
The last week of October will be about farms, apples, and fall time. We will be tasting apples, and making applesauce. We will be having a small Halloween party Friday October 29th. You will hear from the room parents with more information, as it gets nearer. If you would like to volunteer in the classroom to help with a project involving one of the upcoming topics, please let us know.
Website: To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
Have a great weekend!
Friday, October 01, 2004
October 1, 2004
A peek at the Week
This week we learned about how to take care of ourselves/our bodies. This included reviewing the steps to washing our hands, and why it’s so important to wash our hands. It also included “practicing” brushing teeth on paper teeth with shaving cream, and identifying self-help objects such as those listed in the vocab list (see below). Be sure to ask your child questions about this topic such as “why do we wash our hands?”
During our end of the day circle, the class played “Duck Duck Goose”. Everyone enjoyed playing this game, and really got the hang of it by Friday. A great game to play on a rainy day at home.
Vocab: germs, wash, brush, soap, toothpaste, hairbrush, toothbrush, washcloth, towel, and clean.
Centers: dolls/babies at kitchen, brushing teeth on easel with shaving cream, shelf toys with zipping/lacing/buttoning boards for practice, Look What I Can Do center with tracing, coloring, writing in journals, and an ABC floor puzzle.
Speech and Language:
This week we worked on matching similar items, counting to eight and answering how many questions. These activities are done in conjunction with the Three Little Kittens unit. We continue to work on the names of all the students in the classroom. While we are counting we work on the /th, f, and s/ sounds. When you count with your child please remind them to use these sounds correctly. Show them how your mouth makes that sound and have them imitate you. bowen-mishou@cromwellct.org
PT Group
With Renee this week the children continued practicing using beanbags, and balancing them, this time using TWO bean bags. Renee would give an instruction, such as “put the bean bag on your back” and the children had to figure out how to bend their bodies, and walk from one end of the AP room to the other and then back.
Everyone enjoyed this activity while reviewing their body parts.
The OT Corner
Hello to all of you, especially those I did not have an opportunity to meet on ‘Meet The Teacher Day’! My name is Margaret Root and I am the occupational therapist in the pre-K program. I would like to use just a little space in the newsletter from time to time to offer suggestions about activities that could be done at home to enhance the fine motor and visual motor development of your child.
For example: Now that fall has arrived it’s a great time for children to get involved in raking. It’s a great way to build strength and coordination in the upper body. Believe it or not stability, large motor coordination and endurance in the shoulders and torso lay the best foundation for writing later. It is also a good time to teach children to ENJOY being good helpers! Have a wonderful weekend!
Margaret Root
Thanks..
Thanks to Meghan and Mrs. Savinelli for sending in apples to share this week! We each shared a piece at snack time, and each child was sent home with an apple in his/her backpack.
Looking Ahead
October topics will include: colors, shapes, farms, apples, and fall time. Next week is colors week. If you would like to volunteer in the classroom to help with a project involving one of the upcoming topics, please let us know.
Website Update: The Website is up and running, though we are a bit behind on posting newsletters. Please bear with us as we get this going again. If you wish to view the pictures, you need to email me, and I will email you the link. You CANNOT reach the pictures by clicking on the link provided at the Website. To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
knagy@cromwellct.org
Reminders:
§ Sneakers & comfortable clothes every Wednesday for PT group.
§ Comfortable shoes every day for outside playtime and fire drills.
Have a great weekend!
This week we learned about how to take care of ourselves/our bodies. This included reviewing the steps to washing our hands, and why it’s so important to wash our hands. It also included “practicing” brushing teeth on paper teeth with shaving cream, and identifying self-help objects such as those listed in the vocab list (see below). Be sure to ask your child questions about this topic such as “why do we wash our hands?”
During our end of the day circle, the class played “Duck Duck Goose”. Everyone enjoyed playing this game, and really got the hang of it by Friday. A great game to play on a rainy day at home.
Vocab: germs, wash, brush, soap, toothpaste, hairbrush, toothbrush, washcloth, towel, and clean.
Centers: dolls/babies at kitchen, brushing teeth on easel with shaving cream, shelf toys with zipping/lacing/buttoning boards for practice, Look What I Can Do center with tracing, coloring, writing in journals, and an ABC floor puzzle.
Speech and Language:
This week we worked on matching similar items, counting to eight and answering how many questions. These activities are done in conjunction with the Three Little Kittens unit. We continue to work on the names of all the students in the classroom. While we are counting we work on the /th, f, and s/ sounds. When you count with your child please remind them to use these sounds correctly. Show them how your mouth makes that sound and have them imitate you. bowen-mishou@cromwellct.org
PT Group
With Renee this week the children continued practicing using beanbags, and balancing them, this time using TWO bean bags. Renee would give an instruction, such as “put the bean bag on your back” and the children had to figure out how to bend their bodies, and walk from one end of the AP room to the other and then back.
Everyone enjoyed this activity while reviewing their body parts.
The OT Corner
Hello to all of you, especially those I did not have an opportunity to meet on ‘Meet The Teacher Day’! My name is Margaret Root and I am the occupational therapist in the pre-K program. I would like to use just a little space in the newsletter from time to time to offer suggestions about activities that could be done at home to enhance the fine motor and visual motor development of your child.
For example: Now that fall has arrived it’s a great time for children to get involved in raking. It’s a great way to build strength and coordination in the upper body. Believe it or not stability, large motor coordination and endurance in the shoulders and torso lay the best foundation for writing later. It is also a good time to teach children to ENJOY being good helpers! Have a wonderful weekend!
Margaret Root
Thanks..
Thanks to Meghan and Mrs. Savinelli for sending in apples to share this week! We each shared a piece at snack time, and each child was sent home with an apple in his/her backpack.
Looking Ahead
October topics will include: colors, shapes, farms, apples, and fall time. Next week is colors week. If you would like to volunteer in the classroom to help with a project involving one of the upcoming topics, please let us know.
Website Update: The Website is up and running, though we are a bit behind on posting newsletters. Please bear with us as we get this going again. If you wish to view the pictures, you need to email me, and I will email you the link. You CANNOT reach the pictures by clicking on the link provided at the Website. To see the site, visit www.cromwellschools.com/ecs and click on Maruschock-Prek.
knagy@cromwellct.org
Reminders:
§ Sneakers & comfortable clothes every Wednesday for PT group.
§ Comfortable shoes every day for outside playtime and fire drills.
Have a great weekend!
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