We all had a great first week! The children enjoyed practicing rhythms while using their Boomwhackers. They also did a very good job of creating patterns with red and green apples and with the tadpoles that they created in Art.
In Nature/Science we will learn about characteristics of amphibians and the life cycle of a frog. We have added tadpoles to our Science Center and our carefully observing them for changes in their appearance. We will read All About Frogs, Animal Babies in Ponds and Rivers, and Fun Facts about Salamanders.
We will finish narrating "Alone in the Woods" this week (about Johnny Appleseed). We will read Pick Me An Apple and sequence the life cycle of an Apple Tree.
In Music we will introduce the lab harp to the children as they learn to play the basic scale. We will be working as a group and alternating bilateral movements as we learn the song, Up Went the Spider." We will also sing "R-E-D", "Four Red Apples", and play a game called "Little Red Train" in Creative Movement.
In Art we will learn about Vincent Van Gogh and do a picture study of "Vincent's House in Arles (The Yellow House)". We will also fingerpaint with red and make red collages.
In Bible we were planning to study Creation, Day One. We will create a page each week for our Creation Book and sing many wonderful songs about Creation.
Please send a snack for snack time each morning and encourage your child to form the habit of placing it in the red basket.
Our field trip to the River Legacy Science Center is on Thursday, Sept. 24. Please send $10.00 by this Thursday for your child to attend and sign the permission form in the hall.
