My name is Nancy Walsh (Mrs. Nancy to the children). I am thrilled to be your child's teacher this year. This is my second year teaching at The Laurel School, and I previously taught at Head Start for 16 years.
Each week I will be sending home a newsletter to let you know what we did that week. I typically send them home on Friday's or Monday's for the previous week.
This week we started by doing a story stretcher for the book "Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom!" We talked about palm trees and where coconuts come from. We traced our hands to make leaves for our classroom palm trees. The children created their own palm trees using brown, green and yellow construction paper. Then they did a small writing project to go along with it.
We also talked briefly about what it means to recycle. We have been rinsing our plastic containers, forks, spoons, straws, etc. from our snack and lunch and putting them into our "plastic" recycle bin under the sink.
We illustrated our first poem for our poetry journal, "The First Day Of School". We talked about what it means to "grin" and "wink".
Music (w/ Ms. Kathleen): We sang songs that we were familiar with (ie. ABC, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Shake your sillies out, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) and we used the egg shakers to learn musical patterns with Ms. Kathleen.
Science (w/ Miss. Lynn C class): Preschool 3 & 4 combine to do science together 1x a week. This week we went outside to explore the playground to see what types of nature we could find. We found many different types of spiders, crickets, ants, potato bugs as well as leaves, pine cones, twigs, branches and sand!
Art (w/ Ms. Ana Staci): The children moved their bodies to create different types of lines (they bent their arms ad also put them out straight to create a straight line and also a curved line). They also used their legs, hips ad head. Then they experimented with oil pastels on paper. They also drew a self portrait.
Life Sports: We used the black top on the elementary playground. We created pictures using sidewalk chalk. Then we played the game "fire, fire, put out the fire!". We made a hopscotch game and then put chalk flames at the top. The children needed to hop/jump up the hopscotch ladder to put out the pretend fire. They wrung a wet sponge out over the chalk flames to make them disappear (or get extinguished). We then had a relay race using the sponges and a bucket of water. The children raced across the grass with their wet sponges to ring them out at the other side of the field.
Mrs. Nancy
~Thank you for allowing me to care for your children!~