We’ve come to the end of September already!! Our Ladybugs are forming bonds with each other and feeling confident in the classroom. They know our routines and rules. They’ve been to Chapel and Music Class. We even learned how to do a fire drill!! (everyone lined up so quickly to walk outside to our tree). Now that they are comfortable, we are really starting to see their unique personalities shine! And that is exactly what Pastor Brandon talked about in chapel this week- how we are all unique and special. He showed the children the unique cross he built out of legos.
This week we continued our discussion of 5 Senses. It was very exciting to watch popcorn explode out of the hot air popper! We used ALL of our senses. We watched it pop out, heard the popping, smelled the popcorn, touched it and, of course, we ate the popcorn!! Yum
We also used our sense of hearing to play Sound Bingo. Everyone had to focus and listen carefully to hear the sounds on the cassette tape (haha….that was an education in itself!) and find the matching picture on the card.
We continued our name study by adding letter beads to our writing table. The children used their name cards to find the letters in their names and make a necklace. We saw some of our Ladybugs helping friends find their letters, too. It makes us so happy to see them showing kindness and being helpful to each other.
In our art center, we introduced watercolor paints at the table and painted with shades of blue at the easel.
And we took advantage of the cooler weather to bring out the bikes during our playground time. I’m happy to say everyone followed the rules to stay safe behind the orange cones. Their legs got a good workout pedaling those big bikes!
Next week we will begin talking about Fall. There will be apples, pumpkins, acorns and more showing up around the classroom. If you are out with your Ladybug and find any signs of Fall (or other interesting nature), bring them to school to add to our science center!!! We would love to examine them with our magnifying glasses or use them in our other activities.
Don’t Forget- Conferences will be October 9th & 10th. If you haven’t signed up and need the link again, just shoot me an email and I’ll resend it. Also, if the times don’t work for you, we can find another time to meet. Miss Jenn & Miss Kelsi will both be in the classroom with the children on those days. They are excited to meet the children from the other class!
Make sure to take a look at our Google photo album, too!
We hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Sue, Miss Jenn & Miss Kelsi