Welcome to week two of preschool!
Your children did a wonderful job during our first week together. They are getting familiar with our daily routines and learning classroom expectations. I am amazed at how quickly they are learning the routines for lunch and getting ready to go home. Those are complex, multi-step routines that require so much effort. We created class rules "Be safe. Be respectful. Be responsible. Have fun!" We read The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn. If you are unfamiliar with this book, I highly recommend it. It is a beautiful story about Chester Raccoon's first day at school and how he says goodbye to his mother. We made Kissing Hand handprints, played two different counting/number games featuring Chester Raccoon, made self portraits, and much more.
This week we will continue to explore our classroom and how to take care of it and each other. I spend several weeks building the culture of our classroom. I find that investing the time during these first several weeks of school pays off throughout the school year. We will be reading Have You Filled A Bucket Today and Fill A Bucket both by Carol McCloud and will make a book on how we can fill each other's buckets. We will share our book with you at the Author's Day in December.
This will be one of the only paper newsletters I will be sending home this year. Information will be posted on my blog. Please follow it at https://msnancysblogmbs.blogspot.com/ . If you do not have internet access, please let me know.
Your children are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing them with us this year. Ms. Sue and I have enjoyed every minute with them.
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