Week of June 7:

Monday: Thank you for meeting us on the playground this morning! The children thought that was neat! They enjoyed a final Music Class with Mrs Wagner and for some it was their final day with Ms Koval.  She is giving the students something special that she made! They really enjoyed having her as a teacher every day! This was a new role for her taking on the role as every specials teacher for our building due to the Covid restrictions this year.  Mondays and Fridays she did activities with them outside, Tuesdays & Thursdays she did story and crafts and Wednesdays she did Spanish! Ms Koval did an amazing job planning activities that were age appropriate and engaging for each grade level! We are very appreciative and thank her!  
We went outside briefly today and used the squirt bottles and beach balls!
We finished Fine Motor Journals today.  Those will be going home today or tomorrow.  There is a small journal that they did all the pre-writing lines in.  They also did a self portrait and wrote or traced their name.  The marble composition book had the next steps which was writing uppercase letters.  Over the summer I recommend continuing in that book as there are plenty of pages and space left.  They can write a few more of each letter, practice lower case letters, practice name writing and other words/names, add stickers (even removing stickers from the sticker pack sheet is good practice.  They can cut out magazine pictures and glue it in, draw, make collages with paper, etc.  They were excited to have their own book for writing so I hope they continue to add to it! 
I will be sending out a slideshow of pictures through the year.  I was having difficulty with so many pictures in Adobe Spark so through a parent's recommendation I am using Google Photos but I need to start fresh but it's been much better!  I will email that when I finish.  Any that you would like please feel free to download from the Google Photo links on my webpage. 
We look forward to the last day of school tomorrow for the 5 day students!

Week of June 1:

Tuesday: We hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! Today the children enjoyed a cutting, coloring, gluing and counting fish activity.  They also free painted a sunny beach scene.  It was a beautiful day so they enjoyed playground time and we also observed and talked about a big bird's nest I found on the ground at home that I brought in.  Tomorrow is dress down day if you would like.  Orange or oceans for the letter O.

Wednesday: Today we had fun making an Octopus for the letter O and they practiced number recognition and fine motor skills adding circle stickers for each number.  We also worked in their fine motor journals and they added sea life stickers to yesterday's painting. I sent home several crafts we had on display along with today's craft.  

​​​​​Thursday: The children enjoyed watching the Eric Carle sorry Mister Seahorse on the Smartboard.  We also made a seahorse craft using legos dipped in paint.  They also enjoyed a dance party!  They worked on their fine motor journals and played with playdough. 
TOMORROW IS OUR PICNIC/END OF THE YEAR CELEBRATION! NO SNACK OR LUNCH IS NEEDED....JUST A WATER BOTTLE AND PRAY FOR NO RAIN!

Friday: Wow! The rain held off for the picnic and dismissal! Prayers do work! I sent an email and posted the pictures! The children had such a fun day today! Thanks! They enjoyed the lunch, outdoor games and activities and the ice cream truck! We also did Scholastic Big World activities and a Sea Animals mini book they colored and read.  They didnt have rest time today with the picnic and ice cream.  We will hold onto bedding till the last day.  We hope they enjoy the gift bags we sent home today!  Have a great weekend!

 

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