Nov. 24, 2008

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew a picture of a brown bear in our journals. We also practiced our first lock down drill (which we had talked about during breakfast). We all sat in the dark in the reading center and were very quiet. We did a great job! We are very hopeful that we'll never need to do this in a real situation. For our fine motor work we felt a texture book, put coins in a pig, matched real restaurant items to pictures of like items, and created restaurant signs for each of our restaurants on the community map. We glued them to our restaurant. The community map is really coming along. We'll be adding fall trees soon. During circle time we determined that it was cloudy today (we used the gray cloud over our tree), counted to 24 and said that orange was next in our calendar pattern, and danced to "Itsy, Bitsy Spider". We played outside with our Pre-K friends. I continued reading poems out of our Thanksgiving book today. The poem today was about a girl that couldn't eat because her braces were too tight. For centers we had many different sizes of blocks in the big toys center. We created structures, admired them, and knocked them down. We also began creating turkeys in the art center. We cut a little circle for a head and a big circle for a body (which we folded in half). We added eyes, a diamond shape for a beak (we folded the diamond shape in half), and a waddle. We also cut strips of yellow, red, and orange paper and folded them in half to make feathers. We glued them to the body piece and added the head. Tomorrow we'll add the legs and feet. We had lunch and played on the playground with Pre-K. After rest we'll create pattern bracelets in Pre-K. We were going to do this activity on Friday, but we ended up working on a shapes song as a large group.

Please check your child's backpack today. Their Thanksgiving place mats are in them.


Have a wonderful night!
Kali Parsons