Painting by Finley Graham 2013 "Earth" |
June 2013 Newsletter
May Reflection
This month we said thank you to those children making their
way to new adventures for the summer and beyond. This has been a wonderful experience to honor relationships
in class—ways friends can stay connected and discussion of change. We talked at circle time in both our AM and PM classes about what feelings sometimes come up while experiencing change and that change is a natural part of
life. Change is transition to
something unexpected and most of the time, amazing!
The
children have been really enjoying Show & Tell!
Show
& Tell: Tuesdays or Thursdays feel free to help your child find something small
and special from nature or object starting with any of the letters from our
alphabet (example: “a” for apple) to bring to class for beginning group. Please place Show & Tell items in a
name labeled plastic bag.
Welcome Carter Suchy to our PM Class! Please feel free to introduce yourself
to Vince and Kay Hardy and Carter!
June Topics
·
Life
Cycle of the Butterfly & Insects: our Painted Lady caterpillars are
close to chrysalis phase! We will
continue our scientific observations.
Vocabulary: egg, larva, caterpillar, chrysalis (pupa, cocoon),
butterfly, sphere. And
talk/building butterfly houses.
·
Primary
and Secondary Colors: color mixing and color wheels.
·
Rainbows—What
makes a rainbow: with the wild spring weather, we will look at what makes a
rainbow and fun stories and folklore surrounding rainbows. Vocabulary: rain clouds, sunrays and
rain drop/prism.
·
Tie Dying: Please
send one or two pre-washed white tee shirts to school. We’d love to get our tie-dye on soon!
·
Woodworking:
hammering projects and tool/function vocabulary and use.
·
Loads of
outside time and water play! Please put sunscreen on your child!
Reminders
·
June Break/No
school: Tuesday June 18th and Wednesday June 19th
July: No School
Saturday August 24th is our end of the year potluck celebration & Graduation. More details to come.
Bead stringing |
Sandpaper Letter Lesson practice |
AM circle time Show & Tell |
Magnets |