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!

WEATHER

Date: December 1-5
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• We did a wind experience using various objects around the room and a blow dryer. The students predicted what you blow or not blow away. Then, we went outside to feel the wind! It was not windy that day!
• We made umbrellas out of paper and decorated them with feathers and jewels. Check them out on the wall in my room!
• We made a Tornado in a bottle using two 2 litter bottles, food coloring, and water. We watched as the tornado was spinning into the opposite bottle. The kids were amazed!
• We made fake snow.
• We watched "The Snowman" a movie about a boy who builds a snowman that comes to life. The students were "glued" to the movie as I narrated it using appropriate language targets.

Vocabulary: windy, snowy, rainy, sunny, tornado umbrella, boots, cloudy, wet, stormy, rainbow, mittens, gloves, lightning, puddle, rain coat, scarf. (We will continue with some of these words next week!)

Notes: Reminder: Grandparents Day is Tuesday, December 9th at 11:00 am. All grandparents are welcome to join their grandchild to build a yummy gingerbread house. If grandparents are unavailable, a special friend or parent is welcome to join. Also, the Bake sale will take place in the staff room from Tuesday until Wednesday afternoon. Come on in and purchase some holiday goodies! All proceeds will go to purchasing new playground equipment for the children at Northern Voices. Other than that...have a wonderful weekend!

TAKING A PEEK AT THE WEEK.....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

From: Tanya

Theme: Thanksgiving

Date: November 17-25

Language Experiences:

• Make traditional Thanksgiving costumes
• Make pine cone turkeys for centerpieces at our Thanksgiving Feast
• Act out the First Thanksgiving
• Make real butter
• Field trip to Dodge Nature Center
• Make food for our Thanksgiving Feast

Vocabulary:

turkey, peas, turkey (cooked), vest, corn, feathers, deer, Thanksgiving, green beans, horse, pie, potatoes, canoe, egg, plate, knife, green, pink, yellow, bread, T.V, sandwich, carrot, strawberry, grapes, ham, bowl

Notes:

Reminder: Our Thanksgiving Feast is on Tuesday, November 25th. Please come and join us for a wonderful meal your child will take part in making! It's starts at 11:15 am and all students will be dismissed afterwards. School resumes on Monday. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving break!

TAKING A PEEK AT THE WEEK....

From: Tanya
Theme: Cooking/Baking/Food
Date: November 3-14


Language Experiences:

• Make fruit salad
• Make a vegetable salad
• Wash dishes and explore various kitchen utensils as they relate to current vocabulary
• Set the table
• Make painted toast
• Have a play-dough baker
• Bake cookies
• Make sandwiches and have a tea party
• Play restaurant (McDonalds)
• Make paper bag owls (pre-teaching for Dodge Nature Center Field Trip on Monday, November 17th.

Vocabulary:

cake, popcorn, cupcake, donut, hamburger, soup, pizza, candy, chips, pancakes, bread, french fries, cheese, pour, stir, squeeze, baker, egg, hotdog, orange, candy, grapes, banana, cracker, soup, strawberry, cookie, oven, pear, apron, baker's hat, burnt, microwave, pot, cooking, rolling pin, bake, owl, beak, claws, fly, wings

Notes: Please fill out the permission slip for our field trip on Monday, November 17th and return to Angie or Mellissa. Thanks! Also, you can sign up if you would like to attend the Thanksgiving feast on the board outside of Angie's classroom. Next weeks theme is Weather...so if you would like to send anything in related to weather for show and tell, that would be great! Other than that, have a great weekend!!

Please enjoy these Halloween pictures! A big thanks to Henry Corneliusen's dad for taking such wonderful pictures! Check out my blog next week for Language experiences and vocabulary. Have a great weekend and stay warm!

Tanya

Sooah playing pin the nose on the witch!

Henry landed on the winning square!

Ella decorating her bucket with Jackie.

Samantha decorating her bucket with a witch (me)!

Isiah tossing the rings on the spider.

Kennedy and Levi ready to play!