9/1 Classroom Update

Important Dates/Reminders:

No School: WECC is closed on Friday, September 2nd and Monday, September 5th for Labor Day weekend.

EGR Pioneer Picnic: Meet the 2022 East Varsity Football Team from 6-8 pm on Wednesday, September 7th. There will be free trading cards, autograph signings, and prizes!

Picture Day: Picture Day for both classes is Monday, October 10th. If your child is absent on the 10th, we will try to make it up on Tuesday the 11th. Picture retakes will be November 2nd. 

MWF 3's:

This week, we read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and practiced colors, sorting, retelling a story, and identifying things that are same and different. We learned about brown bears, where they live, what they eat, and watched a live feed of brown bears in the wild! During small group center time, we played Brown Bear bingo, created sensory brown bear paintings with bubble wrap, decorated our names with rainbow colors, sequenced the animals in Brown Bear and sorted bears by color! We also created our own class version of Brown Bear called Preschoolers, Preschoolers What Do You See? Each friend will have a turn to bring our class book home to share with their family! We enjoyed lots of outside time with the beautiful weather this week too! Next week, we will read several Pete the Cat books and continue to focus on colors and learning our classroom routines! Here are some picture highlights from our week in 3's:

PM 5's:

This week we focused on learning more about ourselves and each other! We discussed how differences make us special, the importance of having confidence in who we are, and how different people have different interests and preferences. We also learned the Mat Man song and worked together to build and draw Mat Man. The Mat Man song helps teach body awareness and how to draw a person. You can listen to the Mat Man song here. We also have been practicing how to say what our name is in Spanish (Me llamo....), as well as saying if we do or do not like something (Me gusta or no me gusta). During center time, we practiced drawing Mat Man, created "All About Me" books, built people out of playdough, decorated our names, practiced cutting, created collages with our colorful cutting pieces, and examined our unique fingerprints. On Thursday, we read the book Too Much Glue and created glue masterpieces. We also practice using liquid glue to make glue raindrops instead of glue puddles. We read the book The Magical Yet and are working on building growth mindsets. Next week, we are going to read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, focus on the letters in our names, and work on proper pencil grasp. Here are some picture highlights of our week in 5's:

Have a great weekend!