Welcome Back to School! If you haven't been in the preschool room this year, I have gone "bananas" with the monkeys! Our preschoolers love the monkeys and we spent the first week doing lots of fun activities around the "Monkey" theme.
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We read a few stories, including Cliffords First Day of School, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, and Brown Bear Brown Bear. After reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, we made a class book which is very similar but has everyone's picture in it and it is called Monkey Monkey Who Do you See? Look for it to come home with your son/daughter sometime in the next two weeks. Please return it once you have shared it with your family so everyone has a chance to see it. We also worked on a sequence activity with the story If You Give a Pig a Pancake. We LOVE our SMARTBoard! Your child brought home a paper version of the sequence activity for homework. I will try to send home homework on Thursdays so they have something to do on Friday since school is not in session. I hope parents encourage their child to complete the homework and return it the following week and will give students a sticker/stamp for completion. I would like the students completes the homework rather than the parents doing it for them. I am not looking for correct work, but trying to instill the importance of working on things outside of the classroom. Thank you for your support with this.
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.................We had a great first week and enjoyed going to computers, library, and gym. Our gym day is Thursday so please have your child wear comfortable clothes and athletic shoes. Our song for the week was "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree". Sing it at home and I am sure your child will sing along. They loved the alligator puppet who SNAPPED the monkeys.
ONLINE ACTIVITIES FOR HOME:
Check out this link for an online monkey story and a counting game. You can also print off a craft to do at home.
**Mystery Bag will be coming home with your child soon. Please put 1 item in the bag along with 3 clues about the item (You can write all three clues on the same piece of paper). If you have a chance to rehearse "reading" the clues, that would be great. If not, I will help them read them.
