Friday, November 5, 2010
LETTER OF THE WEEK: N
On Monday, we read The Napping House by Audrey Wood. In this book, everyone is sleeping. The snoring granny, the dreaming child, the dozing dog, the snoozing cat, and a slumbering mouse are all asleep. When a flea bites the mouse, a chain reaction begins and, within a short time, everyone awakens. We learned these letter N words: nose, numbers, November, newspaper, night, nap, no, name, neck, nine, necklace, noise, our friend, Nicky, and our teacher, Mr. Noah. For our art project, the boys and girls used glitter paint to paint on newspapers. We played a name game where each child said their name when a ball was rolled to them.
On Tuesday, we read One Dark Night by Lisa Wheeler. Mouse and Mole are in fear of the dark night until they find Bear who shows them kindness by sharing his dinner with them. For our letter N art project, the boys and girls decorated the N as the nighttime sky filled with the moon and stars. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 were floating in the sky, too. We played another game where each child said their favorite number when a ball was rolled to them.
On Wednesday, one group of children read Dog’s Noisy Day by Emma Dodd. In this story, Dog meets the other animals living on a farm and he learns how noisy all of the animals can be. The other children, in the journal group, covered the letter N with newspaper squares. In yoga, Miss Kim asked the children to make the sounds of their favorite animals. Our warm-up yoga pose was to raise our arms to thank the warm, golden sun. The boys and girls learned how to play the dog and snake yoga game where some children posed as downward dogs and some children were the snakes that crawled under the dogs. Our imaginary yoga trip was to go to the aquarium. The children posed as fish, octopuses, and sharks. Both of the yoga groups had a “double thumbs-up” yoga class.
On Thursday, we read Roar! A Noisy Counting Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards. A lion cub’s roar frightens the other colorful animals away until he finds nine other lion cubs to join him in a noisy roar. For our letter N art project, the children used the newspaper that they painted on Monday to colorfully decorate the number nine. For today’s game, the boys and girls said something nice to each other when a ball was rolled to them.
On Friday, we read Nanta’s Lion by Suse MacDonald. Nanta is in search of a lion who is scaring the cattle in her African village. This search-and-find book has a surprise ending as Nanta shows her disappointment in being unable to find the lion. For our art project, the boys and girls made a mother bird sitting in her nest.
Thank you to Maya, Lucie, Maddie, and Jordan for being our super “kids of the day” this week.
The Art Exhibit will be on display for a few more weeks. Please let us know if you would like to purchase your child’s art. The Art Exhibit is a fundraiser for the Playschool.
As a reminder, we take the children outdoors to ride bikes and play when the weather is 40 degrees and above. Please dress your child in weather-appropriate clothing. All coats, hats, mittens, gloves, and scarves must be labeled so that we know which children these items belong to.
In Afterschool Arts Clubs this week, the boys and girls made peanut butter or soybutter-covered bananas in Cooking Club, they painted seashell fossils made with Model Magic in Science Club, in Art Club, they made monster masks like the monster in the book, Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley, in Movement Club, they played parachute games, Wonder Ball, and they rode scooters, and on Friday, the children sang Shabbat songs with their friends in the Pre-K PM class. Afterschool Arts is a great way for children to extend their day in the Playschool. Please have your child give it a try!
In November, we will close at 12:30 PM on Wednesday, November 24. There will be no Afterschool Arts Club on that day. The Playschool will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26.
In looking forward, please mark your calendars for the Hanukkah Happening and Playschool Open House on Sunday, December 5 from 11 AM to 1 PM. More information will be forthcoming soon.
Have a great weekend! Next week, we will learn letter B and paint ceramics.
Miss Gloria, Miss Chloe, Miss Julia, Miss Mindy, and Mr. Noah
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