Week of October 15-18

Week of October 15-18

Themes: Community Helpers & Fall

Color: Purple

Letter: H
Show and Share: Oct. 18 something that starts with letter H also wear purple.

 

Last week was a great week. We did several activities with apples. We sorted apples by color and made an apple "pie" graph showing our favorite apples. In the a.m. class is was even between green and red apples in the p.m. class the red apple pie piece was larger. We also did a group activity about what apples have, are and make. At the end of the week we made applesauce together. The rule in preschool is that everyone has to try three bites of something new before they are allowed to say they don't like it.  I am happy to say that everyone tried the homemade applesauce, not everyone liked it but atleast everyone tried it. We also did several activities for Fire Safety week like making a firetruck. Last week the p.m. class got the opportunity to participate in a learning activity with their Third Grade Buddies. Every child had a Third Grade Buddy and they played a number/counting game in order to color in an apple basket.

 

This week we are going to continue to talk about characteristics of fall. We are going to make an acorn craft. We are also going to be talking about community helpers such as firefighters, police officers, doctors, dentist, librarians, veterinarians, etc. We are going to play a community helper matching game matching the appropriate tools to the community helper. We will also make a doctor kit craft. This week the a.m. class will get the opportunity to do a learning activity with their Third Grade Buddy. They will also get a visit from Brecksville library, one of our community helpers that we will be talking about. With the fall weather here,please take some time to go outdoors and make some observations about the weather and how things are changing.

 

I have several parents contact me to participate in thee reading activity I described last week. I am still looking for some volunteers in the morning class, so if anyone is able to come be a guest reader for 20 minutes on a Wednesday please let me know so that I can add you to the schedule I am developing.

 

I have also heard from several parents that they have had difficulty accessing their child's cubby on LifeCubby. I am going resend invitations and hopefully this will help anyone that is having difficulty logging into their child's cubby. I have let them know of the difficulty we have had but please feel free to use the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page and send them an email describing the problem. They will respond to you quickly and hopefully will be able to resolve the issue, at this point I am only able to resend invitations to help with the problem. I want to thank everyone for hanging in during this process, since this is the first time this program is being used in the preschool it will take all of our cooperation to work out any bugs. Please contact me with any suggestions you may have so that I can make this process more smooth for everyone.