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January News
Getting back to basics. What a good way to begin the New Year, at the beginning.
Letters, numbers, shapes and colors will be perused through a variety of hands-on activities.
All our students will be experimenting with color. Color mixing at the easels will provide children with the opportunity to create masterpieces and enhance aesthetic development while blending different shades. Coloring rice in the sensory table will lend itself to a further understanding of color mixing. Droppers and colored water will turn our students into little scientists as they perform experiments with colors. After reading Leo Lionni’s classic story, Little Blue and Little Yellow, finger paints will color our world green.
Going on mini-treasure hunts will test students’ knowledge about basic shapes. They will be asked to look for circles, squares and triangles throughout the classroom. Shape collages will also reinforce shape recognition.
The letter of the day will be introduced to our MWF classes at group time. Students will brainstorm for words that begin with the day’s letter. The letterbox will be opened daily containing items that have the beginning letter sound to correspond with that particular letter. Additional projects related to letters will be added to the day’s offerings.
Chicka , Chicka, Boom, Boom by Bill Martin, will become essential reading for all our students. The alphabet tree will be available so that our students may add upper and lower case letters to the tree.
Students will be exploring space at the science table. Many books, puzzles and rocket-ships will interest our little astronauts.
During the month of January I will be conducting phone conferences for all students. I will address each child’s progress in the key developmental domain areas: personal and social development, physical development, cognitive development, creative expression and aesthetic development. Each content area has specific criteria that have identifiable benchmarks. The Connecticut Framework for preschool education will be used as a tool for this assessment.
Cold and flu season is upon us. Please keep your child home if he or she is sneezing and coughing excessively, has a runny nose or eyes or a fever. And I encourage you to have students wash their hands upon arrival.
Wishing you a very Happy New Year,
Linda Hall
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