Theme: All About Me and Body
Dates: September 8-18
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• "I have something in my backpack"...open our backpacks and learn about all the different school supplies we need.
• Read "The Gingerbread Boy" and go around the school to search for him while learning about the different rooms in the school.
• Role play various rules we use in school and make a "Rule Book"
• Make a"School Snack Mix"...while learning about sharing with our friends.
• Trace our bodies on butcher paper and learn the names of our different body parts.
• Make a pizza face with english muffins, cheese, sauce, pepperoni and olives.
• Make our hand prints and foot prints using paint and markers.
• Make a paper plate face complete with our implants/hearing aids, eyebrows, eyelashes etc.
• Wash a toy baby while using language and vocabulary from our "Body" theme.

Vocabulary: (Your child will be exposed to many of these vocabulary words throughout the two week theme. However, they will only be expected to learn 8 to 10 or more of the words expressively.) stapler, paper clip, eraser, paintbrush, pencil, pen, desk, markers, crayons, clock, tissue, backpack, scissors, tape, school, glue bottle, glue stick, teeth, foot, hand, eyes, nose, hair, tummy, belly button, ear, leg, arm, mouth, shoulders, fingers, face, toes, neck, tongue, ankle, eyebrow, eyelashes, wrist, thumb, back, chin, fingernail, forehead

Comments: Welcome back to school! It has been a pleasure to see all of your faces again! All of the children seem so excited and ready to be back in school...and we are too! I sent a letter home last week introducing myself and discussing the procedure for Show and Tell. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!

Show and Tell Dates:

Monday: Kennedy and Ben D.
Wednesday: Sooah and Frank
Friday: Isiah and Esther