November - theme CLOTHING & FEELINGS

Hello Preschool Families

This month our theme is Clothing - a different but fun theme.

Things we will be learning and doing at school - pictures are below!

New greeting song and sign in methods - pictures posted

Art area:
* Painting with yarn
* Self portraits - add fabric for clothing
* Practice weaving and sewing with different materials
* Button stamping
* Create our friend Corduroy
* Free art with different materials - bingo dotters, oil pastels, water colors, water color pencils and more


Math Area
* Pete the Cat count the button game
* Counting pegs
* Sorting clothes pins - sorting small buttons
* Count and/or sort large buttons
* Button count and clip it cards
* Sign Language number tiles

Puzzles and fine motor area
* Many different puzzles - some dressing puzzles
* Lacing dressing bear
* Pegs
* Matching baby socks
* Weaving racks with ribbon
* Dressing bear

Book area has new and different books and our favorite tree and animals still

Sensory area
* Water table - wash babies
* Beans and colored buttons and beads
* I-Spy my friends sensory bottles - bottles with our pictures inside them

Literacy areas
* Journal writing
* Match upper and lower case letters  in a couple of different ways
* Magnet letters with our names to look and find letters in our names

Magnet wall
* Gears
* Clothing sort into winter and summer categories

Dramatic play area
* Shoes store two weeks
* House area

Block area
* build tall and short towers
* Small ramp for cars
* Multicultural houses and people

What else
* Creating different class books for our Book Celebration in Dec
* Play whats missing game
* Play shopping for clothes game
* Work on syllables
* Start Hand Writing without Tears writing
* Graph our shoes

Science area
* Magnets

Group time
Read many different books about clothing and feelings
Talk about our feelings - what do they look like, how to handle different feelings
When do we take a break, how we take a break, what does that look like
Watch a few you tube videos on clothing
Play the Shoe Game

Dates to remember
Thursday Nov 7 - Wear Pockets
Friday Nov 15 - Wear a Hat - please label hats!!!
Friday Nov 22 - Wear Buttons
Thursday Nov 14 @ 10:30 and Wednesday Nov 20 - Ms Pam to visit

NO SCHOOL - 
Nov 25 - 29 - enjoy the break!

Parent teacher conferences - Nov 25 & Nov 26 - watch for a link to come out to sign up for your conference.