Tanya's Blog

Theme: Transportation

Dates: January 18 -January 30

From: Tanya


LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES:

• Field trip to Dodge Nature Center: Space/air travel
• Make a rocket ship with paper towel tubes
• Make a parachute with coffee filters
• Make a hot-air-balloon
• Make a edible banana airplane
• Make a sailboat and float it in the water
• Do a science experiment to learn about sink/float
• Make an edible train
• Make a transportation poster by sorting vehicles into land, sky, or water.

VOCABULARY:

school bus, city bus, bike, car, train, sun, moon, stars, water, land, airplane, rocket ship, sailboat, half moon, full moon, tractor, hot-air balloon, helicopter, truck, snowmobile, submarine, 4-wheeler, earth, canoe, parachute, ship, fishing boat, sky

NOTES:

Please remember to send show and tell with your child on their given day. A show and tell item be related to the theme of the week or anything your child chooses. I will send a note home if there is something particular I am looking for the students to bring for show and tell that week. Let me know if you have any questions! Here are the student show and tell days:

Monday: Levi/Henry

Wednesday: Ashden/Sadie

Friday: Ella B./Isiah

THEME: Fun, fantasy, and feelings (Pretend, Fairy Tales, Toys, Magic, Real/Make Believe, Dragons, Monsters, Giants, Afraid, Excited, Happy)

Week 1: We will focus on the fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfts"
Week 2 (January 12-16): We will focus on magic and the fairy tail "Cinderella"

DATE: January 6-9

FROM: Tanya

LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES:

• Read and act out "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
• Make mirrors and repeat the chant "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the prettiest one of all?"
• Talk about things that you can eat/drink and things that you can't and refer it back to the poisonious apple that Snow White ate.
• Make a headband with our favorite dwarf.

VOCABULARY:

Snow White, Prince, Queen, castle, wand, magician, princess, mirror, excited, afraid/scared, happy, mad/angry, tired, sad, surprised, hungry. (Some of this vocabulary will carry over into next week along with new vocabulary from our new story "Cinderella").

NOTES:

Happy new year and welcome back! It's great to see all of your smiling faces again! I've missed all of you! Please see the previous blog and hard copy of show and tell details. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Show and Tell….

**Each student will bring a show and tell item in one day a week on every week until the end of the school year. Here are the days for each child:

MONDAY: Levi and Henry will bring show and tell.

WEDNESDAY: Ashden and Isiah will bring show and tell.

FRIDAY: Ella and Sadie will bring show and tell.

HERE’S HOW IT GOES….

1. Please help your child pick something for show and tell on their assigned day. It can be anything from toys, food, drink, sporting equipment, notes, pictures,…ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING! Help them to say a few things about their item…I’ve suggested a few ideas on the attached paper.

2. Please put the item in a separate bag or their backpack so no one can see. We will play games (to work on categorical language) to guess what they brought.

3. The item will be returned home each day. Try to encourage your child to pick something different, but don’t worry if they want to bring the same thing as they did the day before.

4. Please don’t send anything valuable or breakable.

If you have any questions or suggestions….please let me know! Thanks for all you do to help your child learn to listen and talk!