weekly update

Last week the children had a lot of fun learning more about Henri Matisse - his different styles during his lifetime.  They loved creating their own still life paintings using water color paints.

This week - we will wrap up our learning about Matisse - how he used scissors to create art.  We will also use scissors to create art and then use cookie cutters to dip in paint and spell our names on our art work.  We will display these on our bulletin board in the back of our room.  We will also try to make stain glass art by coloring on transparent sheets.  We will be working on another project, but that will be a surprise for families - sorry I cannot say anymore.  We will also talk about being thankful.  What does thankful mean?  We will talk about different things we are thankful for and create a thankful for book.


This year I am giving the children different BLOCK CHALLENGES -  so this week we will try to put blocks on shape mats to match the different shaped blocks on the mat.  We will also keep our I can build block cards out to give suggestions on different structures the children can build.

We will add sand in our sensory table along with animals, so the children can use their imaginations at the sensory table.

We will start weekly jobs after the break so we have been talking about each job and modeling what the job expectations are. 

Reminder there is NO SCHOOL next week - Nov 19 - 23 for Thanksgiving break.

Conferences are Nov 19 & 20 a sign up genius link went out for sign ups - or call the main office to schedule one with Jeanne.

Thanks
Darcie