Theme: Family and Friends
Dates: November
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• The teachers put on a made for T.V "Be a Good Friend" skit.
• We made "Friendship Cookies" and passed them out to our friends.
• We made a Family tree.
• We made "Friendship Trail Mix" and took turns handing them out to our friends.
• We made shaped houses complete with squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.
• We read the story "The 3 Little Pigs" and acted out the story on a flannel board.
• We read the story "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears" and acted out the story on a flannel board.
• We made an edible house with crackers, American, and String Cheese.
• We went for a walk on the neighborhood to look at the different houses and reinforce the vocabulary learned.

Vocabulary: cook, sweep, house, window, basement, driveway, bathroom, chimney, bedroom, sink, garage, blanket, sidewalk, living room, kitchen, closet, curtains, dresser, family, rug, dishwasher, brother, sister, roof

Notes: Thanks to all of you for keeping your children home if they were sick. We are doing everything we can to keep each other as healthy as possible (ie., hand washing etc.). Please keep November 24th at 11:15am open for our annual Thanksgiving Feast. All our invited! More to come next week...

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

Theme: Our Earth, Fall, and Halloween
Dates: October 19-30
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• Take an "Earth Walk" and pick up trash
• Clean up a "trashed" room while sorting plastic, cans, glass, and newspaper
• Make a trash collage
• Make apple juice
• Take a field trip to the Good Will to donate items that can be reused
• Make Halloween orange play dough
• Go to a "pumpkin patch" and get a class pumpkin along with our very own small pumpkin to take home (hand-picked by me at my dad's farm)
• Make Witch's brew
• Make spider snack.
• Halloween party...Happy Halloween!!

Vocabulary: squirrel, stick, pick, earth, recycle, empty, full, newspaper, rake, can, plastic, glass, recycle bin, fall, seeds, acorn, trick or treat, costume, jack-o-lantern, costume, witch, skeleton, Frankenstein, Witch's broom, scarecrow, carve, bat, haunted house, mask, candy corn

Notes: Just a reminder...our Halloween party for the preschoolers will be at 2:00pm on Friday, October 30. Please send your child with their costume and we will help them put it on before the party. Also, you can join us at 2:40pm for our costume parade around the school. Hope to see you there!

Show and Tell Dates"
Monday: Kennedy and Ben D.
Wednesday: Frank and Sooah
Friday: Isiah and Esther

Theme: Dinosaurs
Dates: October 5-14
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• Dig for dinosaur eggs and bones outside on the playground
• Make a dinosaur puppet
• Talk about meat eaters and plant eaters like the dinosaurs and taste meat and vegetables
• Make a volcano with baking soda and vinegar
• Make dinosaur toast
• Make a dinosaur egg cut-out
• Make a dinosaur snack
• Explore a "Feelie box" and reinforce vocabulary: hard, soft, rough, bumpy etc.
• Pick apples and or go on a Fall walk
• Make something yummy with our apples:)

Vocabulary: dinosaur, soft, hard, dinosaur bones, rough, bumpy, volcano, horn, T-Rex, extinct, tail, sharp teeth, dig, plant eaters, meat eaters, apatasaurus, leaf, umbrella, rain, tree, red, purple, green, orange, yellow, blue

Show and Tell Dates:

Monday: Kennedy and Ben D.

Wednesday: Frank and Sooah

Friday: Isiah and Esther

Comments: Please sign up to have your child's conference on the form that's located on the wall outside of my door. My conferences are being held November 2 through November 6. Time slots available are: 2-3pm, 3-4pm, and 4-5pm on these days. If none of the available dates/times work for you, please let me know and we can work something out. Thanks! .

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.