Fall is finally here and we are loving the weather on our playground! We are ever so grateful for all of the items that our friends have brought to share in our science center- pumpkins, gourds, sticks, acorns, & leaves. We used those science center items to do a Sink or Float experiment this week. Miss Jenn also did a really cool experiment in which she showed us how to use milk to blow “edible” bubbles in an apple cup! We will be doing more with pumpkins in the next weeks and would love for each child to have a small pumpkin to decorate in class, if you could send one along with your child soon!!
October is also Fire Safety Awareness Month. We have begun by adding a burning building and firefighter gear to our dramatic play area. The Ladybugs have been busy saving people and spraying the fire (squeezing those spray bottles is an excellent exercise to strengthen hands for better fine motor skills 😉). We will be learning more about fire safety next week and the fire company will be coming to visit the following week!
We are continuing the study of our names, increasing our literacy skills and letter recognition. This week we concentrated on the first letter of our names. At the easel everyone painted their first letter, and we added tiny stickers to the letter in our journals (MWF class will do this next week, since we ran out of time!).
Thank you all for taking time to meet with me for conferences this week!!! I enjoyed having time to connect and share with each other. It was fun for the kids in each class to get to know both Miss Jenn & Miss Kelsi while I met with you. I know they had a great time together! I will be out again next Thursday & Friday (my husband is having minor surgery), so Jenn will join Kelsi again on Thursday. Then on Friday, Jenn will be traveling to a wedding, so Miss Kelsi will be joined by former Ladybug assistant, Miss Beth. Miss Beth works in the Whale class M-Th, so the children are familiar with her also. I apologize for there being so many changes in our routine these two weeks, but I know our Ladybugs are in capable, loving hands.
On that note, I’d like to ask you all to remember to copy both myself and Jenn (MWF) or Kelsi (T/TH) on any emails you send. We work as a team and it is important for them to know what is going on with the children as well. Thank you!!
Here are some important REMINDERS for the upcoming weeks:
We are closed on Monday (still Fall Break 🍁)
School Pictures will be taken on Wednesday & Thursday this week (Oct. 18th & 19th)
Family Pictures will be available on Saturday, 10/21. Click here to sign up
The fire company will be visiting on Wednesday, October 25th. We invite our T/TH children to join us at 9:30 with a caretaker to meet the firefighters & hopefully get to see their truck!
We will have a costume parade on October 30th & 31st shortly after dropoff and a party for the children (only) in the classroom afterwards thanks to the wonderful organizing help from our room reps, Erica Gaskins & Kyle Warren. More info has been sent by them to your emails.
Enjoy your sweet Ladybugs this weekend!!
Miss Sue, Miss Jenn, & Miss Kelsi