PreK-2: Gina Stabile

• My classroom and program are safe places where i learn, play and have fun.
• i am important member of my classroom, community. my thoughts, needs, ideas and abilities matter.
• My family, my teachers, and other children make up my classroom community, their backgrounds, thoughts, needs, ideas and abilities matter. 
• The teachers and other adults at my program keep me safe, care about me and support my learning 
• In my classroom I use materials carefully and make choices about where I work and play.
• Classroom rules and routines help me learn and stay safe. 

Our Key Vocabulary we will be learning this week are: 
Welcome, Classroom, Schedule, Centers, Teacher, Science, Library, Construction, Manipulatives, Materials, Movement, Angry, Disappointed, Embarrassed, Emotions, Feelings, Frustrated, Proud, Lonely, Rules, Scared, Silly

Home Extensions/Family Engagement
 

• Have a conversation with your child about how they felt on their first day of school when they went. Have your child tell you about their experience of school so far.
• I will provide a  page with different facial expressions, labeled with specific emotion words on them. Encourage the parents/guardians to look at them together, imitate the faces and use the vocabulary provided. They will discuss with their child on times they might feel these emotions and the different emotions their children might feel in school.
• Please practice with your child on how to write their first name
• Read one of your child's  favorite books to them daily and have them tell you what types of emotions is happening in the books they read with their child.

In our centers we will be doing the following: 
Art: She will have the children draw what makes them happy or sad and have them explain to her why those things make them happy or sad.
Centers:  
Art: The children will draw a picture of what makes them happy/sad?
Dramatic Play: What type of food makes them happy? The children will be discussing and “making” their favorite meals in the dramatic play area.
Science: Fruit Tasting: The children will taste three fruits and decide which one they like the best.
Math: The children will help making a bar graph of what their favorite fruit they like the best they tasted.
Sensory Table: “Find Me” :The teacher will tape pictures of the children and teachers to the bottom of the sand table. The children will than dig through the noodles to look find themselves and their peers. Encourage the children to tell you who they see in the noodles.
  Blocks: The children will build a place that makes them happy.(School. Community, home, etc)
Writing:  The children will make a feelings book of what is their favorite feeling. (Happy, sad, angry, silly, etc)
T able Toys (Play Dough): The children will make different types of emotions. (Happy face, sad face, angry face, etc)
Library: The children will look at books about feelings.

We will also be creating a class mural. The students will look in a mirror. The teacher will ask them what do they notice about them? What do they like about themselves and why do they like someselves. The teacher will then have draw a picture of themselves on the mural. Once the children draw themselves she will hang the mural in their classroom. 

The books we will be reading this week: 







We will be learning new songs this week: 

Songs:  Here We Are Together: Here we are together, together, together,
Oh here we are together, all sitting on the rug.
There’s Alana, Malachi, Stepahn, Kyng, Azeen, Moses, Tobe, Xavier, etc 
Oh here we are together, all sitting on the rug.
Days of the week song


Hope you all have a great weekend. 
Ms. S


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