Important Dates/Updates:
Kid's Food Basket Food Drive: Thank you so much for your generosity this holiday season in helping us collect items for Kid's Food Basket. I am so appreciative of all your support of this important cause! Here is a picture of the amazing donation our class will be sending to kids in need:
Warm Clothing: As it gets colder, please send your child with warm clothing for outside time each day. Many items look similar, so please label your child's coat, boots, hat, and gloves/mittens. We try to get outside daily as long as it is not raining and the wind chill is above zero. If there is snow in the forecast or on the ground, please also send your child with snow pants as well. When getting dressed to go outside at home, it is very helpful to practice having students get ready themselves so that they can learn to be more independent getting dressed. We sing a song at school to help us remember all the steps to get dressed to go out - ask your child to sing it for you!
Pajama Day: Thursday, December 16th will be a pajama day at WECC! Friends are welcome to wear their pajamas and hard bottom slippers to school. If your child chooses to wear slippers, please send a pair of boots or shoes in case we go outside!
Winter Break: There are no preschool classes Friday, December 17 through Friday, December 31. Classes will resume on Monday, January 3, 2022.
T/Th 3's Class:
This week, we had so much fun playing in the snow! In the classroom, we read the classic story The Gingerbread Man and engaged in lots of fun gingerbread themed learning experiences. During circle time, we read different versions of the story, practiced retelling and discussed how popular stories can have many different versions! During centers, we made gingerbread men with gingerbread playdough, sorted gingerbread men by color, decorated gingerbread men, and painted gingerbread men with special puffy paint! We made Gingerbread Counting Stew, built gingerbread men letters, and worked on extending patterns. We also learned about the letter J and turned our hands into jellyfish for our letter books. Our social skill theme for the week was "How is your Engine Running?" We discussed how we each have engines inside that can run too slow (feeling tired, lethargic, or sad), just right (happy, calm, ready to learn), or too fast (wound up, upset/angry, feeling out of control). We practiced identifying how our engines were running and practiced some strategies we can use to slow our engines when we're going too fast or too slow (i.e. deep breaths, squeezing our hands together, taking a walk, taking a sensory break, stretching, etc.). Here are some picture highlights from our week in 3's:
PM 5's Class:
This week in 5's, we learned all dinosaurs! We learned basic facts about dinosaurs (i.e. how we know about dinosaurs, when they lived, what they ate, about different types of dinosaurs, etc.). We also learned about what paleontologists do, what tools they use, and how they piece together dinosaur bones like a giant puzzle. We pretended to be paleontologists digging for dinosaurs in our classroom sandbox, and dug up and sorted uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numbers in the sand. We compared our feet to the footprint of a T Rex and were surprised to find that all of our feet put together were still smaller than a T Rex footprint! We explored some of the different theories as to why dinosaurs are extinct, and simulated a volcanic eruption. We created our own salt dough dinosaur fossils and had lots of fun painting them! This week, our focus letter was the letter S and we turned the letter S into a snake for our letter books. Here are some picture highlights from our week in 5's:
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