Klahanie School
October 2014 Newsletter
“Knowing
that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for
growing into the healthiest of people.”
Mr. Fred Rogers
September 2014 Reflection
What a fun way to begin our
school year! Thank you Klahanie
parents for all the warmth and opportunity to educate and nurture your
children! They are lovely people
and as a group we have had such fun observing all the new friendships. Our circle time is spent enjoying
singing “getting to know each other” songs, days of the week, finger plays,
movement and stories to help the children adjust back to the school environment
and routine. They are doing
amazing learning and remembering how to move in the classroom and what fun
seeing the children pair off into new friendship play or concentration. We are diving quickly into engaging
lessons in language, math, zoology and botany as well as storytelling and
poetry. We began reading
poetry and will continue this throughout the school year by classical poets
Edward Lear, Christina Rosetti, Robert Frost to name a few as introduction to
how fun and meaningful language play is for expression and language use
expansion. I will continue to
introduce Sand Paper Letter lessons to the children. This is s a wonderful phonetic and sensory lesson of the
alphabet as well as indirect aim to work on speech development using engaging
steps to make the concrete, sensory experience fun. The children have loved the garden playtime and many have
helped harvest and eat from the garden and play imaginative play as campers or
explorers. Some core words we use daily
in class are inclusion, compassion, helpful choices: to ourselves, environment
and class group, permission, concentration, independence and connection.
October Curriculum Topics
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Spiders (arachnids)
and Bats (mammals): looking at their
life cycle, parts of the bodies, habitats and how they help the earth.
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Pumpkins, Gourd
family & Apples: life cycle,
parts of the plant and sensory games, songs and food preparation and tastings.
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Friends: What makes a friend
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Neighbors: Peace
practices (invitation to play, concentrate together) on how to be neighborly
and available for help when asked.
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3 Part Card
Introduction to Weather and Land Forms:
A language and earth education lesson that focuses on picture and word matching
and earth vocabulary introduction.
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Garden
preparation for winter: Winter crops
and soil care for winter preparation.
Reminders/Thank Yous
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Parent
Volunteers Needed to help take a class picture and make a monthly
batch of play dough, please contact Emmy if interested.
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Halloween: children are welcome to wear costumes if easy to
remove, move around in and warm for outside time.
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Sharing: Children are welcome to bring one item from nature
or item that starts with a letter sound (“a” for apple, etc.) or something
cultural each Thursday. Please
make sure the sharing can fit in the cubby. Parents are welcome to call and schedule with teacher if child
wants to have a family pet visit class for sharing.
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| Sand Paper Letter lesson |
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| A beautiful book about expressing love between a grandson and his grandmother. |
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| Our 2014-15 Class Portraits |
