Dear Parents,
We have learned a lot about ourselves through our “All About Me” unit. We will not move on to learning about apples. Over the next week weeks we will read books such as Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSieg, Apples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, Big Red Apple by Tony Johnston and Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington. This week we will dissect an apple and diagram the parts. Every Monday, we do something called Mat Man with is a part of our Hand Writing With Out Tears Curriculum. Using wooden pieces we create a person. Children learn body awareness, cooperation, organization, and sequencing as they build Mat Man together. After Mat Man is put together, the students are sent to draw their own self portrait hopefully adding more detail because they have put mat man together. This week, we will be putting apples on top of Mat Man as we read Apples Up on Top. This will incorporate 1:1 correspondence as well as fine motor and sequencing to the activity. In small groups this week, students will be doing their own Apple up on Top activity. They will create a self-portrait and will count out how many years old they are with paper apples. They will add those apples to their heads and write their age. This will work on 1:1 correspondence, numeral identification as well as fine motor skills. Please send in your green pictures for our green collage activity. Please be sure you are dropping off and picking up on time. When students are late for drop off they miss some of the most important instructional time of the day. In the morning, student write their name and journal. While journaling we work on inventive spelling and phonemic awareness skills. If students miss this on a daily basis they will not be prepared for the rigors of kindergarten. Also we ask you to please be on time for pick up. Each week, Miss Maggie and I often spend an additional 2 hours waiting for parents to pick up their students after school. We often miss lunch, meetings or personal engagements due to this. There are days a teacher cannot stay and wait with a student for pick up.In this case they will be brought to emergency aftercare where paid staff member watches students after school hours. Here is the Ray late pick-up policy: If a student is picked up late once the guardian will receive a warning, twice they will have to speak with an administrator and three times they will need to pay $25 and will receive written correspondence outlining legal requirements. Thanks for understanding! Mandi Heiser
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Dear Parents,
I am thrilled to report that our Donor’s Choose was fully funded! Our beautiful new books should be arriving shortly. Thanks to all who contributed! This week we will be wrapping up our community building and “All About Me” unit. We will be reading a great series by Free Spirit Publishing. We will read the books Join In Play, Talk and Work It Out, Share and Take Turns and When I Feel Afraid. We will be talking about how to solve problems in the classroom and finishing up learning about our Wheel of Choices. In small groups, we will be discussing and graphing how each student got to school (car, bus, bike, walk). Please point this out to your child as you come to school in the morning. We will graph our responses, discuss which is the most, the least and look if we have a tie. Through this we will also investigate the written numeral. Please send in a small orange picture for our orange collage no later than Thursday of this week! Have a great weekend! Mandi Heiser [email protected] Please consider donating to our classroom. Exposing young learners to books is essential in their development. We REALLY need these books. Please post on social media and encourage friends and family to donate!
www.donorschoose.org/project/bright-tomorrow-book-barrow/2103613/?rf=page-siteshare-2016-09-proposal-teacher_1978434&challengeid=356552 Thank-you! Mandi Heiser Happy Week 3!
This week, we will be continuing our All About Me Unit. We will discuss our families further and we will read the story 5 Creatures. We will be drawing our families during small group activities. We will also be reading It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr and we will discuss the things that make us special. Please be sure bring in your family picture and the Hopes and Dreams paper as soon as possible! Our color of the week is Red. Please send in your red picture (with your child’s name on the back) no later than Thursday. We glue on the small color pictures to create a classroom color collage. We use these collages to create a classroom color book that the kids always love to look through during book time. Heard your child talk about “Bugs and Wishes” or a “Balloon Breath”? Come learn what it is all about on September 22! Our open house from 5-6pm here in room 411 at Ray school. We will be discussing curriculum and how we create a classroom community. Hope to see you there! Have a great week! Mandi Heiser
Dear Parents, Sometimes the first day of school can seem scary to young children. Here is a story you can download and read with your child to get them used to their new classroom and teachers! Enjoy! |
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AuthorMandi Heiser is a Preschool teacher at William H. Ray Elementary in Hyde Park. Categories |