Important Dates
Monday, September 22nd: First Lunch Bunch and a 1:00 pick up in the classroom
Quote of the Week
“I’ve been waiting for this guy!” -- Overheard from an enthusiastic and supportive Blue Whale referring to another Blue Whale about to tell us about his Tell Us Tuesday interesting item
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.
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 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.
One of the most important jobs in the Blue Whale classroom is to keep you and your friends safe, we are all Safekeepers. Each Blue Whale told their friends and teachers they would keep them safe and added their names to the Safekeeper Box. They were so supportive of each other and clapping for each of their friends as they added their names to our box.
We had our first Music & Movement class with Ms. Vicki on Wednesday. The Blue Whales sang, danced and played musical instruments. 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 Sienna did a great job with three clues about her photo of an item and calling on friends to guess the item. The Blue Whales were able to guess Sienna’s item because of her great clues. Sienna and her family surprised the Blue Whales by bringing in Sienna’s actual pet snake. Sienna told us all about her snake, Flower, and let everyone have a turn to pet the snake. There were lots of proud Blue Whales who were near the snake and who touched the snake. One of our affirmations is I am Brave and we sure were that day. It was wonderful to see how much the snake and Sienna love each other.
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 in the classroom at 1:00 pm. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, we will continue with pick up on the playground at 12:00 pm.
We are enjoying creating, moving, singing, discussing, observing, reading and playing with our Blue Whale friends. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.