Happy Monday Goldfish Families!

We started "Halloween Week" today with art, math, and music! I dipped little hands in white paint and we made a big mess stamping them onto black paper to make "ghost hands". We also sang "Bats are Sleeping" and used bats to help us count. I am happy to see that our class is full and all our students are back.

If you would like to sing "Bats are Sleeping" at home I've included the lyrics. I know some of you sang "Gray squirrel" with your child because when we sang it again they knew the movements! I loved it!

To the tune of "Frere Jacques"...

Bats are sleeping (put palms together on side of face like you are sleeping)
Bats are sleeping
Upside (point up) down (point down)
Upside down
Waiting for the night to come (tap your wrist like you are tapping a watch)
Waiting for the night to come
Then they'll fly around (flying motions OR when we're feeling energetic we get up and "fly" around the room)
Then they'll fly around!

We hope you will be able to join us Friday for food, games, costumes, trick or treating and fun at our Halloween celebration!

Ms. Kristen

Sea Stars exploring what they know

Hello Sea Star families!
First of all I want to thank all of you for your patience and support during this flu season! I know it is stressful to see our little ones not feeling well, and even more stressful if they are doing okay but may be exposed to all the germs. We are doing our best to keep our hands and bodies clean as well as listening to our bodies when they show signs of illness.

This week we are brushing up on "LEAVES". We began discussing fall changes a few weeks back and the children really enjoyed the topic. This week we are focusing mostly on leaves, and since we have already learned why they change colors and the rest of the changes trees go through during this season, we are using our senses to explore these changes physically. What this means is the week will be filled with sensory experiences and documentation of it: leaf hunts, wind exploration, fall smells, photographing what we see, graphing what we find etc. Please refer to our walls for new art and work by the children. Remember to always read the small prints for these are the exact words your children are using to describe what they do :]

Hope you all have a great week and keep washing those hands and covering those coughs!

Miss Mariana

Tuesday Blog

Good evening seahorse families. This week we are Exploring the world of leaves. We started off the week by reviewing what fall was all about and talking about why leaves fall. We then proceeded to trace and color leaves during art and after we worked we got to toss and play with fake leaves on the carpet.Today we went on a fun nature walk around the school and collected different things that may have fallen from trees. We took the things we found on our walk and created our very own nature collage. For sensory fun we put leaves and twigs in a water table to feel how they get in the water.Tomorrow we will be continuing to investigate leaves and for art we will be painting with them. Thursday and Friday we will be adding the shape of the month, the triangle, to our leaf fun.Share day is this Friday and the theme is Leaves. Please bring any leaves or twigs you may have found outside your home. I’m sure with all our practice we are doing this week the kids should know what to look for. =)Have a great week and a good night!Miss Krystal

Jellyfish

This week we are talking about Leaves and the color Orange.

Mon,Wed,&Fri children's please bring some leaves from your yard. Thank you
Tues & Thurs It's Orange day, wear something Orange.

Thank you- Miss. Annie

Hi Goldfish Families!
It has been a busy week for the little ones (and an exhausting one trying to keep up with them)! We are having a great time with the community helpers theme with doctor/nurse collages, dental floss paintings, new songs and poems, creating a pretend library in our room today, greeting the mail carrier when we play outside in the morning, and putting out chalk "flames" on the sidewalk with water from the watering cans. They are talking more and more every day and those personalities are really coming out! They are also forming friendships with each other and it's so sweet and special that they are bonding- even if it sometimes means they're in cahoots and up to no good together!

Thank you for sharing your wonderful toddlers with me, we're having a blast!

Ms. Kristen

Hello Families I hope you week has been good so far. I just wanted to post some reminders for this week. Soccer shots has started and will be held Mondays at 9am. If anyone else is interested it's not too late to sign up. Snack will be served at 8:45 on Mondays. Earthquake kits also need to be turned in. On your child's sign in folder there is a list of the children who are missing their kits. This earthquake kit consists of a juice and a fruit/ protein bar. Please keep in mind we are a peanut free school. On Friday your child's progress reports will be sent out. The only class that does not get progress reports is the goldfish class. I also wast to thank everyone who participated in our field trip to the pumpkin patch it was a success!! I hope you have a nice rest of the week and try to stay dry.

tuesday post

Good evening Seahorse families. This week the seahorses are going to be talking about Fire safety and community helpers.
We have been preparing for our special visit from Big John The fire truck tomorrow. Yesterday we Learned about fire danger and today we talked about the special number to call in case of an emergency. 911.
The rest of the week we will be talking about community helpers such as the postal carriers, Doctors, construction workers, and etc. For share day i would like the kids to think of something that reminds them of one of the community helpers we talked about. Let them use their imagination to see what they come up with =) Have a great week and please be sure to look at the ning site for pictures from the week.

RAIN RAIN RAIN...STAY!

Hello Sea Star families! A short but sweet blog. We have finally started our phonics program! The children are eager to work on their books and little by little we will all get used to the new routine. Our theme this week is Community Workers and Fire Safety, with an addition look at the unexpected change of weather. The rain is always fun and interesting, therefor I will be bringing in surprise activities for the children and take advantage of these unplanned learning moments :]

Here are a few pictures from today's day. For community helpers we began discussing the community and one of the things all children see are restaurants and places to eat; we made our own special menus! The rest of the photos are from our outdoor play in the coming and going rain.

Thank you all for reading,
Miss Mariana

MENUS


RAIN PLAY

Big Thank You from the Sea Stars

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all of you who attended the field trip. We had so much fun and it went soooo smoothly. We had a marvelous week filled with fun activities and learning moments. Pictures have been posted so please go check them out. The children were so happy and I am glad to have had the chance to share the experience with them and the rest of you.

Next week we'll be starting a new theme: "Fire Safety and Community Workers". A topic I know the Sea Stars will enjoy talking about. The curriculum will be posted Monday, feel free to look over it and add any ideas you may have. Wednesday we will have a special guest visit from the fire department :0)

After nap time and once we are done with snack we do read books together before going outside; if your children have books that apply to the topic please bring them and we can read them together. I will post a blog Monday with more information about the week and our share item for friday.



Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Mariana

Pumpkin Time

Hello Seahorse families. This week's Topic is all about Pumpkins. We have been talking about the different things we use pumpkins for, and where we find pumpkins. On Thursday we will be opening up a pumpkin to see what's inside and bake the pumpkin seeds =p This should be a really fun and messy sensory experience. Look for pictures on Friday =)
Due to our field trip Share day will be canceled this week. Thank you and have a nice week.
~Miss Krystal

~*~Pump-Pump-Puuumpkins~*~

We have started this week discussing Pumpkins. First we talked about what we already knew about pumpkins (Elijah said they are orange, Hunter said they have vines, Will told us they grow from seeds, and we all agreed they are fun during the month of October). The discussion about Halloween came up instantly and I took the chance to brush up on the subject of individuality and plant the seed of respect for other cultures and costumes. There are people that do not celebrate or like the same things we do and the kids were so interested and respectful towards the information I was giving them, as Kona said, "We are ALL special!".


After our discussion about the coming up holiday we learned the names of the different parts that make up a pumpkin. They will be able to tell you where all of these are, the poster is taped by the sea star's bulletin. Here is the list of the names we learned: Skin, Stem, Ribs, Pulp or Brains (which they loved! haha), Seeds, and Leaves. We will learn as much as we can before going to the Pumpkin Patch this Friday. We are cutting up a pumpkin tomorrow and getting more into details with the subject as the week progresses. Should be an adventurous week. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are ready for the interesting stories that will be coming home.

Miss Mariana

Pictures..

Stella with Shamoo
Stephen time to eat Shamoo

Smile Stella

Alessandro watering our plants

Run Parker

The boys.

Happy Birthday

Evan(oct 3)

Hope you have a fun birthday!!

-Miss. Annie-

They like to go see the Shamoo..