Monday, October 22, 2012

Newsletter: September/October

September was a great month!  Our classes are going well and I am enjoying teaching each of our children.  We said goodbye to Ava Whalen (we miss her!) and welcomed Teegan Phillips (love his spunk!) to our Wednesday class.  We took a 2-week break the first two weeks in October and now are back in session.  The children are continuing to work on activities introduced to them in August, and introduced them to more language and math work.

GROUP PRESENTATIONS this month - not including individual presentations given for the older children who have advanced to the next material in the course.


L Beginning Sound Bins - a
L Beginning Sound Bins - m
L Beginning Sound Bins - s
L Beginning Sound Bins - t
L Insets for Design (#2 Lines l-r, striping)
L Sandpaper Letters p -i-n-k
L Writing Lines - vertical and horizontal
M Associate numerals with Number Rods 1-5
M Number Rods 6-10 (setup) grading
M Numbers - continue to 9
M Write numbers - 1-4 (Trace on chalkboard)
LWrite letters m s a t - trace letters
P Screws, Nuts and Bolts - fine pincer grasp
PL Dressing Frames - Jumper buckle 
PL Dressing Frames - Snaps
PL Dressing Frames - Zipper 1
PL Dressing Frames - Zipper 2
PL Hammering #2 - Fine pincer (small nails)
PL - Art Crayon Rubbing
PL - W Lacing (big beads)
S Knobbed Cylinders (red) - Grading, thin to thick, wide to narrow
S, Mu Silence Game, sound games
Sci, Geo Land Air Water Sorting
Sci, Geo The 7 Continents and Map of the World
Sci, Geo Planting a Seed activity
PL - Art      Color Mixing   
PL- M         Patterns and Tesselations

ART Class

For Art Class, Miss Kelli modeled the following projects:
Week 3 Tissue Trees/Flowers
Week 4  Sticker Crowns
Week 5 Homemade Egg Shakers
Week 6 Seed Art
Week 7 Pipe Cleaner Spiders and Glitter Spider webs (October)

MUSIC class (by Miss Carrie)

THEME UNIT: 
 For Theme Unit reading in September, we read the following books:
Old MacDonald Had a Garden by Mary Quattlebaum
The Growing Story by Ruth Krauss
Bee and Bird
Hector the Hermit Crab by Katie Boyce
Up down and Around by Katherine Ayres
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

Pictures from September:
Week 1 (I couldn't believe this was just from 4 days worth of preschool).
Insets
Checking out our music corner.
Playdough and mirror polishing
Insets
More insets + silence game for Jack
Crayon rubbing and insets
Jacob grading our tower - variation #2 - gets the correct one from the shelf one at a time without comparing
dressing frames
Reading - beginning sound bin for "s" when it is all laid out
Beg. Sound bin
More insets
Alphabet puzzle
Mirror polishing
Sound bin
Cutting playdough
Beginning sound bin
And more insets
Fine pincer activity - tweezers
Lacing - big beads
Our classroom got new Montessori Bells.  They are beautiful!!!

Kids love them!

Art time


Pledge of Allegiance
Walking the line
Sound bin
Number rods and cars
Miss Kelli at art time




Story Time!
Ava celebrated her birthday at school!!!


Thanks Hilary for coming and telling us all about Ava!! We miss her sweet face!
Miss Carrie in music class
Bells
Art!
Week 2-4: coming soon!

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