Hello Yellow Duck Families,
It was just wonderful to see our Yellow Duck friends together in our classroom this week. Each one of them did an amazing job of dealing with the big task of saying goodbye to their families and a new beginning with their teachers. Any first day nerves disappeared very quickly and each one of our yellow duck friends had a great time exploring their new classroom and saying hello to some new friends.
Each day you will be able to see new updated photos of our classroom fun. Just go into the CCP website, enter the password to the Parent Portal, go into the Yellow Duck class page & click the classroom photo button. Looking at these photos with your child is a great way of stimulating conversation about school, feelings and friendships. Alternatively, at the end of every blog that is sent to your email on Friday, is a “read on” button. PRESS IT! You will be able to see the blog in its entirety, including the photo link, that way.
Blog notes:
~ If you need to respond through the blog, please use the “click here to email Sue directly” button. If you don’t use that button and just hit reply, Ms. Shelly ends up getting the email and then has to forward it to us.
~Be aware that several of our families have elected to not share their children’s image publicly. If you download a photo from our album or snap a shot during a birthday celebration, please do not share it via social media or any other public venue. Please pass this information on to anyone you might privately share photos with (ie. grandparents). Thank you for your understanding with this matter.
This week we read the book, “ishi, simple tips from a solid friend”, by Akiko Yabuki. It is a book about a rock named ishi (rock in Japanese), that reminds readers to choose and share happiness. It’s an awesome way to spur conversations about different emotions and how to work through them. We all made our own ishis (with permanent markers 😉) and we sent them into the world to pass on kindness.
Our Yellow Ducks had fun pretending it was the dolls’ birthdays and making kinetic sand cupcakes this week. They enjoyed mixing yellow & blue playdough to make it green. Many children did tanagram shape puzzles & made bead bracelets, too. After reading Pete the Cat Rockin’ in His School Shoes we also did our 1st writing as we attempted to write our names to add to our own book! (to be published next week 😉).
Lucky Duck!!
Each week every child will be assigned a job to help with in our classroom. One child will be the Lucky Duck and have a chance to share something that is special to them with the class. We will let you know on Monday if your child is the Lucky Duck and ask that you help your child think of 3 clues to give their friends. We will attempt to guess what the Lucky Duck has brought to school!
DISMISSAL:
Thank you for waiting in the hallway until we bring your child to you. We work on last names, parents’ names, pet names, etc. to make it fun. Each child is noticed this way and it reinforces our desire to know them well.
Have a wonderful weekend with your lovely little Ducks!
Sue & Carina