Cathy Maurer’s Newsletter

Families And being grateful November 7th – November 10th Next week, we will begin a two week unit about family and being grateful. The books that we will read are “A World of Families” by Trish Holland and “The Napping House” By Audrey Wood. Please send in or email a family photo that you would like to share. We will be looking at the photos and talking about the special people in each of our families. Please know that I will scan all photos and originals will be returned. We will use a scanned copy of the photos for any activities that may cause damage to any of the pictures, such as an art activity. Our art activity for the week will be to draw a picture of their family at the easel or at the art table. We will also work to make a special red, white, and blue craft that will be used to decorate the gym for the Veteran’s Day assembly next Friday. In the dramatic play area, I will have clothes that the children use to dressing up as a mom, dad, grandmother, or grandfather. The children can dress up and play house I will have a small amount of water in the feeling table and with baby dolls and wash clothes. As the children play in the water, they can wash the babies. I will have towels for the children to use to dry the babies off after they have been bathed. In the block area, the children will be able to continuing to explore the variety of different blocks, vehicles, small toy people, and doll house.

Follow the link below to our classroom Shutterfly photo site to see pictures of our classroom activities. https://mscathysclass20172018.shutterfly.com/

Have a wonderful weekend! Ms. Cathy Please contact me if you have any questions. [email protected]

Learning Targets for the Family/Grateful unit Learning Targets: routines, rules, walking in a line, sitting quietly, friends’, and teachers’ Vocabulary: mother, mom, father, dad, sister, brother, baby, grandmother, grandfather, home Social Emotional: whole body listening, turn taking, waiting, sharing, greetings, cooperative play Academic Targets: finding our names in print, trying to write our names, identifying colors and shapes, oral counting, counting objects, and exploring pattering

Color for the month of November is: brown

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Dates to Remember: Friday, November 3rd – teacher work day non-attendance day for students

Friday, November 10th – Spirit Day (wear Jefferson Jet wear or red, white, and blue) Veteran’s Day assembly

Friday, November 17th – Progress Reports and Goal Updates are sent home

November 20th – 24th – Thanksgiving recess

Occupational Therapy (11/02/17) Warm-ups:  Removed letters of the alphabet from therapy putty  Placed letters of the alphabet into therapy putty Pre-writing:  Completed a boy and girl playing in the leaves coloring activity  Drew pre-writing lines and forms Bilateral/fine motor skills:  Snipped and cut paper  Put together and pulled apart linking cubes  Strung ABC beads  Scrabble Alphabet Scoop-scooped up ABC’s with a ladle. Miss Karen [email protected]

Links to classroom songs and books on YouTube:

Sesame Street: Feist sings 1,2,3,4

Way Up High in the Apple Tree

10 Apples up on Top

BINGO

The Animals on the Farm

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Sesame Street – Growth Mindset with Bruno Mars Power of Yet – Growth Mindset with Janelle Monae

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Five Little Pumpkins Song

It’s Pumpkin Time book by Zoe Hall

Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman

The Little Old Lady Who was not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams

Grateful: A song of Giving Thanks by John Bucchino vocal by Art Garfunkel

Songs and rhymes to encourage positive behaviors

I Keep My Hands to myself song I keep my hands to myself, I don’t touch my friends. I keep my hands to myself, And I get praise from my teacher.

Hands to yourself song Hands to yourself, not on your neighbor. Hands to yourself, not on your neighbor. Hands to yourself, not on your neighbor. It’s time to read a story (or “It’s time to pass out snack”, “It’s time to sing good-bye”….)

Clean up song Clean up, clean up, Everybody everywhere. Clean up, clean up, Everybody do your share.

Quiet song Put your finger on your lips and go “Shhh, shhh, shhh” Put your finger on your lips and go “Shhh, shhh, shhh”

Rhyme to get attention Stop and freeze. Listen please.

Rhyme for walking in the hallway

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Hands on your hips. Quiet lips.

Count Down to leaving a preferred activity We are almost finished with our time at the playground (or “center time”, “snack time”…) We will be finished in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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