C is for car, cake, Curran, Charlie, cup, cat and Chuck's Place as Mac so proudly stated.  It is also for confident, cute and cuddly children!!

Health and Safety was the theme and we learned about what makes a healthy body and talked about eating a balanced diet and exercising.  We used this theme to talk about germs and how they are spread.  In Science the kids sprayed green dye onto white paper with a squirt bottle to show how germs fly through the air when we sneeze if we don't cover our mouth.  Super fun! 

Music was great for getting our wiggles out as we learned some new songs.  We learned "Wear Your Seatbelt,"  "Everybody Let's Go," and a catchy welcome song to learn names.  All songs we teach have movements to them so please be sure to ask your child to sing them and act them out for you.  Parker and Monica seem to be our future Broadway stars as they sing the loudest and are definitely not shy.  Awesome to see and hear!  You may also want to talk about "Stranger Danger" with your child as this was part of our safety theme.  We gave them scenarios and asked what they would do and you will be happy to know they all answered correctly!  We also discussed what is, and is not safe in the car, so don't be surprised if they tell you not to use your cell phone while driving...sorry.  :)

"C" is for collage and that is just what we created in Art.  We also made self-portraits with tissues and hands showing how our face should look when sneezing.  A healthy picnic basket collage was created while discussing what helps us create a strong body for recess and a gorgeous handprint rainbow poster for our classroom to participate in as a group.

We write and practice math daily so please feel free to work on both at home.  Check out their journals that come home on Fridays and have them explain what we did that day.  This week Math sequencing was their favorite.  It is in their folders so please review "first, second, third, and fourth" with them, they love it!  Charlie wanted to keep going long after it was over and explained on the way to handwashing that he was "sixth" in line.  Aidan worked so hard and perservered to master his number  "4."  It paid off and he completed an amazing four, great job!!  Rylee worked so hard on her name and it looks terrific!  She was beaming after receiving a compliment from her friend, Luke.

Mac shared with us that "Chuck's Place" begins with "C".  He was so proud for his new friends to know that is his daddy.  Monica was our Star Student and really took to being the teacher.  She would even lead her friends over to the calendar and ask "ok, so if today is Wednesday, what is tomorrow?"  If they didn't know she was happy to help, all in a teacher voice.  We got a kick listening and watching them imitate us.  A good reminder that children are always observing....

We love and appreciate our volunteers!!  A big thank you to Venus, Monica's mom, for all of the cutting, we appreciate you!!  Thanks to Alex, Aiden's dad, for not only volunteering in our class for the day, but bringing the ambulance to school Friday and teaching us about taking care of not only ourselves, but others.  You rock!!  Thank you to Lauren for turning the big "4" and bringing us Krispy Kreme donuts!! 

Any time you want to volunteer or want to help or prep projects for our class we would love to have you, plus, your kids completely light up when you are there and are  so proud to introduce you to their friends!

This week all of the children showed their creativity. Maren and Tillie played hairstylists with each other, and Jake screamed with delight during painting, we may have a budding artist on our hands. Xhristo enjoyed singing and dancing, while Lucy could not get enough of our feelings book. Isabella enjoyed sculpting with our new play dough that smells super yummy.

We also had a very special treat this week. Our friends from Ms. Rebecca's, Ms. Nicole's and Ms. Tracey's class came over on Wednesday so we could all play with the parachute together. Everyone had a fabulous time. We are hoping to have them visit more often. We also worked on our motor skills this week by jumping on bubble wrap to hear it pop.

Thank you to all of you who brought back your family book. It has been a lot of fun to look at them.

Just a reminder, next week is Open House on Thursday the 29th. I look forward to seeing all of you then.

Ms. Katie

Is it just us or is this month already flying by with our new teachers and class-mates?  What a great start of the school year we have been having!!  

This week included some great art, great games and most of all great company.  This week in our TERRIFIC TODDLER class we had another addition to our fabulous family, Miss Georgia, who comes and plays and learn with us on Thursday's.  She had a great first day in our class, full of smiles, singing and of course now very popular animal flash cards, which Jane and Zoie will tell you are the best!  

Our week was filled with fun things to do with the letter "B" and also talking about what we do with our hands.  We kicked off art by painting our class 'B' blue of course and then gluing cotton "b"alls on it.  Oscar and Peyton love the sticky fun of gluing, and were having fun getting little pieces of cotton stuck on their fingers!  Another fun project was our "b"and-aid collage.  Luka's cousin, Kweli came in class that day and had loads of fun putting Nemo and penguin band-aids on his paper, where Hailey and the girls preferred the My Little Pony ones. Another fun, messy and popular project was our mixing blue paint mural. We took blue paint and mixed it with yellow to get...GREEN!  Our friend Anders looked like the Incredible Hulk after he was done, but boy was he all giggles. We wrapped up our art with doing cut out collages of what we use our hands for.  We found magazine cuts of people driving, eating, petting their pets, hugging and lots more and made "B"ig murals!  

Also going on with "B" this week we read:  The Blue Book, Elmo Plays Ball, Wheels on the Bus, Baby Beluga and for hands we read the important book of Hand Are Not For Hitting.  Our class is very good about gentle touches and giving hugs and high fives.  

Before we say good bye for the week Ms. Courtney and Ms. Judy want to say thank you to Lauren F. for sharing her birthday with our class and along with everyone else.  Lauren was one of our first students and we love her to pieces! Congratulations on turning four Lauren, we are so happy to know you!