Theme: Community Helpers

Date: September 21-October 2

From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• Talk about the dentist and brush our teeth (after making them dirty with oreos)


• Learn about a Hair Stylist's job and give a doll a hair cut and style:)


• Learn about a Doctor's job and experiment with some of the equipment that they use.


• Make a Doctor's bag complete with cotton balls, band aids, and gauze.


• Have a mystery guest hair stylist do a demonstration.


• Learn about a Mail Carrier's job and write a letter and mail it to someone.


• The teachers will put on a police officer skit!:)


• Make edible stoplights.


• Pretend to be an artist and display our class art in the "Art Gallery."


• Learn about firefighters and act out putting out a fire and safety strategies to use if there is a fire (i.e., "Stop, Drop, and Roll").

Vocabulary: toothpaste, toothbrush, dentist, teeth, band aid, leg, arm, mail carrier, doctor, sneeze, cough, mail box, stamp, short hair, long hair, curly hair, straight hair, mail truck, post office, firefighter, hose, police officer, badge, police car, fire truck, fire station, police station, ticket, fire hydrant

Comments: Just a reminder there is no school on Monday, September 28th. Also, thanks for remembering to send show and tell in with your child on their assigned day. This facilitates a lot of language as they love talking about their own things!

Show and Tell Days:

Monday: Ben D. and Kennedy

Wednesday: Frank and Sooah

Friday: Esther and Isiah

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

Theme: Construction, shapes, turtles, transportation, buildings

Dates: May 18-29

From: Tanya


Language Experiences:

• Make a turtle out of different shapes
• Field trip to the Dodge Nature Center...turtles!
• Construct a house using a variety of shapes and sizes
• Make edible stoplights
• Examine a tool box and "fix" various broke objects
• Make and pretend to be a crane that picks things up
• Make an edible road
• Make a safety cone and talk about why they are important
• "Tool Time" performed by the Northern Voices Builders (teachers...kind of like Bob the builder!)

Vocabulary: stop sign, stop light, screw driver, buildings, saw, safety cone, crane, hard hat, construction worker, tool box, ladder, hammer, dump truck, nails, drill, cement mixer, digger, goggles, tape measure, architect, shapes (circle, square, oval, triangle, rectangle, octagon)

Notes: Thanks to all of you lovely moms for attending our Mother's Day Hoe Down! I hope you enjoyed yourselves! Happy Mother's Day to some of the best moms in the world!

Show and Tell Dates:

Monday: Levi and Isiah

Tuesday: Henry, Ashden, and Allie

Friday: Sadie and Ella B.

Theme: Western

Dates: May 4-15th

From: Tanya


Language Experience:

• Make horses for our cowboys
• Make a brown paper bag vest
• Make a surprise for our moms~!
• Make chili for our Mother's Day chili cook-off
• Mother's Day hoe down!
• Make cowboy boots
• Make Western trail mix
• Make horse shoe prints with sponge cut outs
• Make a cactus
• Teachers will put on a live hoe down!

Vocabulary: cowboy, campfire, desert, chili, cactus, sand, cowboy boots, rope, lasso, beans, cowboy hat, vest, ranch, bandana, hoe down, cowgirl

Notes: If you haven't already, please sign up to attend the Mother's Day lunch that will be held this Friday at Northern Voices at 11:15 am. You and your child can come dressed in Western attire or just come as you are. Hope to see you all there!

Show and Tell Dates:

Monday: Levi and Isiah

Tuesday: Henry, Ashden, and Allie

Friday: Sadi and Ella B.

Theme: Farm/May Day (next week)

Dates: April 20-31

From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• Act out many things that a farmer might do on his farm
• Field trip to Dodge Nature Center: Farm
• Make a farm display complete with a barn, pond, mud, silo, tractor, fence etc.
• Make mud (chocolate pudding) and have pigs roll in it
• Milk a pretend cow (rubber gloves)
• Sheer a pretend sheep and talk about the things you can make with the wool
• Plant a garden on the farm
• Learn about the chicken coop and make scrambled eggs for breakfast
• Make tissue paper flowers for May Day
• Make May baskets and give to friends

Vocabulary: (Your child will be exposed to these words throughout the next two weeks. However, they will only be expected to learn 10-15 words expressively.) cow, horse, sheep, hen, rooster, duck, pig, goat, farmer, overalls, tractor, farm, barn, fence, garden tools, wagon, hay, silo, plow, pond, chicken coop, pig pen, mud

Notes: Thanks for signing up for our Spring progress report meeting. Please remember to fill out the permission slip for our Dodge Nature Center field trip on Tuesday, April 21st and return to Angie or Melissa. Thanks! Also, please join me in welcoming our new student Allie Guyer to the preschool program. We are happy to have her with us! Have a super week ahead!

Show and Tell Dates:

Monday: Levi and Isiah

Wednesday: Henry, Allie, and Ashden

Friday: Sadie and Ella B.

Theme: Forest/Camping/Animals

Dates: March 30th-April 3rd and April 14th-April 17th

From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• Take a walk in the "Forest" to collect leaves, sticks, pine cones, stones etc.
• Make an edible bird nest with marshmallow cream and cereal
• Make a multi-sensory squirrel
• Dye eggs and examine hard-boiled/raw eggs
• Spring egg hunt
• Make paper plate snakes
• Make an edible deer face with english muffins, raisins, and pretzel sticks
• Pack a backpack to go on a camping trip
• Take a mini camping trip to the forest (fellowship hall), set up a tent, and make smore's

Vocabulary: (Your child will be exposed to these words throughout the next two weeks. However, they will only be expected to learn 10-15 words expressively). Snake, plant, bear, bird, tree, acorn, mushroom, skunk, beaver, raccoon, forest, berries, pinecone, squirrel, deer, owl, hiking, nuts, nest, antlers, worm, grass, tent, flashlight, campfire, smore's, sleeping bag, camping

Notes: If you haven't already, please sign up for a date to have your child's Spring conference on the sign up sheet outside my door. Kristi has specified which dates she is unable to attend by stating (no KB) above or next to the date. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Show and Tell Dates:

Monday: Levi and Isiah

Wednesday: Henry and Ashden

Friday: Sadie and Ella B.