Monday, October 12

 Group Meeting: The children helped me make a list of things that we saw at Shady Knoll Farm.  We got out our Writing Journals and drew pictures of what we saw. I showed the children how to draw by using shapes. For example, a pumpkin is a circle or oval with a line for a stem. A cow has an oval head, rectangle body, lines for legs and a tail.

Story: The story for today was the Three Little Pigs retold by Bonnie Dobkin.  This is the classic tale of the three pigs that went out to build their own homes.   The children love the part about the big, bad wolf.

Ball Study:  We have learned that balls bounce and roll. Today, we experimented with using wind to make balls move.  We used a small hand held vacuum to make wind. We used the words energy and force to talk about how the balls move.

Letter Learning:  We are starting to learn the letters of the alphabet. We will work our way through the alphabet at least three times during the school year doing one letter a day including at home learning. We will do uppercase letters now and add lowercase letters the next time through.  We will start with the easiest letters. Today’s letter was L.  I demonstrated how the letter is formed using the wooden lines. I made the sound for the letter L and used the word lion as an example of a word that starts with that sound.  We learned how to print the uppercase L using the Wet, Dry, Try method. Directions for this are in your child’s folder.  

Snack: The snack for today was yogurt, milk and water.

At Home Learning

Name book page

Story:  Listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs using this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtHjB6rRmQc.  After the story, cut apart the characters of the story and glue them to the popsicle sticks.  Cut out the houses and ask your child to retell the story of The Three Little Pigs.

Letter Learning:  In the packet, you will find a piece of brown construction paper with big lines and little lines printed on it.  Cut them apart and use them to have your child form the letter F on the F paper that is in the packet. Keep the lines for future use.  After forming the letter, say the letter sound.  Point to the picture of the fish on the paper and say the word fish.   Now, it's time for wet, dry, try.  There is an instruction paper in the packet to explain how to do this.  Print the letter F on the chalkboard first.  The children are doing this at school, so they should know how to do it at home.  Remind them to start at the top.

Math Journal page:  The Great Pumpkin

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!