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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