Parents,
We will begin the week by learning about the third habit of happy kids “Put first things first”. It can be compared to an object lesson, where you put items into a container. If you put all the small things in first then there is not enough room to get everything in, but if you put the big things in first you can fit everything in the jar. We will compare this to our classroom, in that if you get your challenging works done first you will have time to do all of the other works that you want to do.
We will begin our study of the grasslands of North America and continue our study of magnets. In botany we will be studying fruit this month. We would like to begin our study of fruit by making a community fruit salad on Wednesday. We would like everyone to bring a fruit to contribute to our classroom fruit salad (please no whole watermelons 😉
On Friday we will talk about tints in art. A tint is a color that has white added to it. Friday is also an early out day. This means that morning early childhood is from 8:30 to 10:30 and afternoon early childhood is from 11:00 to 1:00.
As the weather gets colder I could not help but think of a quote from Maria Montessori. She says “Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining”. I try to take the kids out everyday. The exceptions are thunder/lightning, red air, extreme cold (below 20). We will go outside in the rain and snow. Please make sure your child has clothing appropriate for the weather. I have heard it said there is no such thing as bad weather only bad clothes
Here is the link for volunteering this week https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/kurkm
Thanks for all of your support and help.
Have a great week!
Ms. Jen & Ms. Martha