Good Early Morning Parents!!!
The rain is pounding down and the family is sleeping, even the cats, and like always the early morning bird is up!
I hope everyone had a great longer weekend and did something special on their Professional Day. I unfortunately had to postpone my art course at the 4 cats due to the fact that my daughter Abby severely sprained and possibly broke her ankle. Thus we were at clinics xraying her ankle and getting supplies to help ease her pain. Awww.....it was a climbing injury. So, 4 cats was great at allowing me to change my art course to several Tuesday evening lessons beginning in early November. So when I start learning some new techniques there, I will be sharing them with your sweet ones!
Thank you to everyone who came out and spent time with Mrs. Montagano and myself during our intake conferences. I loved having the opportunity to talk to you about your child, listening to you and hopefully being able to help set up some strategies for ongoing success with them. As I said during the meetings, our door is always open, feel free to drop by anytime to discuss concerns and issues.
This past week we started our unit on pumpkins. We started with our standard....what do I already know about.....I typically start this way with all of my science units to show the children how very clever they are. That they know so much already about things and that by the end, they will know even more. This is called learning!!! We also looked at how a pumpkin grows and started a project of putting it together that we just didn't quite finish up on Thursday. You will see it completed on Monday and then hanging in our classrooms. They are looking very amazing already.
In the library we have been working with Ms. Yamashita on a author study. Our author was born in Australia (like Kaia) and was raised in Belfast (like Lola) and his name is Oliver Jeffers. He is an author and illustrator of the cleverly written book.....The Boy who loved Books and many other wonderful stories. Ask your child about him.
Next week we will continue to work on pumpkins and I could use a hand if it is possible. On Thursday afternoon from 130 till 230 we will be looking at all aspects of the pumpkin, measuring it, checking to see if it floats or sinks, cutting it open and counting the seeds etc. For this I would like one parent per table group....so if I could get four or five volunteers I would very much appreciate it. Let me know if you can join us for an hour this Thursday afternoon.
With that stay dry, enjoy your Sunday and I will see you on Monday. If it is raining note that Off to a Running Start may be cancelled and it would be important to bring indoor shoes to school.
Cheers,
Teri
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