Important Dates
Monday, September 28th: First Lunch Bunch and a 1:00 pick up
Thursday, October 1st & Friday, October 2nd: Fall break, Preschool closed
Monday, October 12th: Firetruck Visit
Tuesday, October 13th & Wednesday, October 14th: Fall Parent Teacher Conferences (school open)
Wednesday, October 21st: Picture Day - Individual Photos
Thursday, October 29th: Halloween Parade around Southern Village
Quote of the Week
“Let’s see how this goes.” -- Overheard from a brave Blue Whale to another Blue Whale on the slides before they took a risk. Happy to say no Blue Whales were injured during play on the playground.
What a busy week of school. It has been a joy building our school family and continuing to get to know each of our Blue Whales. The Blue Whales are kind caring friends and developing wonderful friendships. I hear a lot of talk around the snack tables about making plans for playdates and moms calling each other. Your children are excited about their new friendships too.
Primary colors and secondary colors, we talked about them this week. Through books and finger paint the Blue Whales furthered their color exploration.
We sang Where is Thumbkin and practiced finger isolation. And that led us to our discussion about busy fingers and sleeping fingers. Thumb, pointer and tall man are the busy fingers and ring man and pinky are the sleeping fingers. Each child received a cotton ball for ring man and pinky to sleep on while the rest of their fingers stay busy. This is helping your child develop a tripod grasp which will help them manipulate many things including toys, tweezers, glue and writing utensils. We read books about a mouse and a squirrel that we had to take through an adventure in each book using our busy fingers.
Our friends worked on prewriting activities by tearing paper and making paper plate self-portraits. Each Blue Whale looked in the mirror trying to match paper strips and crayons to their skin color, eye color, lip color, hair color and any other important attributes. They are hanging up in the hall and each one is so unique with added details that were important to each child.
We had our first Music & Movement class with Ms. Crysta-Anne on Wednesday. The Blue Whales sang and danced. The first Chapel was on Thursday with Pastor Lee. The children really enjoyed listening to a story in the beautiful Sanctuary and getting the opportunity to ask Pastor Lee individual questions after Chapel.
We had Guess & Tell and Sri and Ronan did a great job with each of their three clues about their items and calling on friends to guess the items. The Blue Whales were able to guess both Sri and Ronan’s items because of their great clues.
All the Blue Whales took home a pet goldfish. We read the book Not Norman about a goldfish. Each Blue Whale created their aquarium, caught their fish and named their goldfish. It was very exciting. I noticed how excited the parents were when I told them the goldfish were not real 😄
On Monday we will have our first Lunch Bunch. Please label your child’s snack separate from their lunch. Please remember to pack a nut and sesame free lunch and snack. Please include any needed utensils, napkin and water bottle.
Lunch will be every Monday and Wednesday and pick up will be at 1:00 pm. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, we will continue with pick up at 12:00 pm.
Fall Conferences are on Tuesday, October 13th and Wednesday, October 14th. Today I sent out an email with more information and a Sign Up Genius link to sign up for a conference. I am also including the link here in the blog https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C49ABAB2BA5FFC34-59032952-blue.
We are enjoying creating, moving, singing, discussing, observing, reading and playing with our Blue Whale friends. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.