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.
Classroom Jobs:
Each week every child will be assigned a job in our classroom. Our jobs help to build community and a sense of responsibility within our class family. One special job is to be the Lucky Duck. Each week the Lucky Duck will be invited to share what we call a Guess & Tell. On Mondays we will notify you if your child is the Lucky Duck for the week. They can bring in ONE item hidden in a bag or box (or a photo of the item in an envelope, if it is too large) on Tuesday. Help them think of 3 clues about the item (you can write them down to help your child remember). Your child will tell us the clues at circletime, and we will guess what they brought to show! This is a great exercise in public speaking that will help build your child’s confidence as well as bring them joy in sharing what is special to them!
Other jobs include line leader, door holder, wish well helper, prayer leader, calendar & weather helpers and more. Everyone will have a job, and they will rotate through the list 2-3x through the year.
This week our Yellow Ducks had fun making cakes and pretending it was their friends’ birthdays in the dramatic play center. They enjoyed rolling, squishing and cutting playdough & made duck pictures at the tables. At our math center we had tanagram shape puzzles. And the writing area was a big hit with pens and notepads.
After reading Pete the Cat Rockin’ in His School Shoes we graphed the colors of our shoes & did our 1st writing as we attempted to write our names to add to our own Guess Who’s Shoe book! (to be published next week 😉). We are learning our new friends’ names as we sing the Hello song each morning, and everyone decorated the 1st letter of their names to hang on the board in the hall by the office.
We hope you have a restful weekend with your little Duckies. It has been a busy week!
Miss Sue & Miss Carina