Raking leaves helps with gross motor skills - and teamwork skills.
This is harder than it looks!
Raking leaves is fun!
Ms. Sharon (our OT), helping a student balance
his way to the pumpkin.
Mr. Pumpkin has his hat back!
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
An apple a day, keeps us happy at play.
"Leaping into Fall!"
Sharing a favorite apple book.
Look, we can spell "apple"!
This boy brought in a bunch of apples to share.
This boy is reading his own apple story.
Why bring an apple, when you can bring apple pie!
There's a new teacher in town.
The kids love music time.
Singing is fun!
"We're nuts about ABC School"
Apple Fun Friday.
Almost every
Friday, ABC teachers set up "Fun Friday" for the students. This is a special
time for the students to have fun making their own snacks with different kinds
of food - and then they get to eat them! The teachers make Fun Friday creative:
a Twinkie "school bus", mini-caramel apples, and animal-shaped grilled cheese
sandwiches are a few of the snacks made this year. The goal of Fun Friday is to
encourage kids to try new foods. By allowing the students to "cook" the snack
themselves, they get a chance to get up close and personal with different
textures, colors, smells, and tastes that they may typically avoid.
What is our Fun Friday for our apple theme? Why "candy" apples, of course!
Mmm - chocolate, marshmallow fluff, and caramel!
Chocolate apples are the best!
Eating apples isn't hard when they're "candied".
Just look at that happy face.
October Newsletter
The
first month of school was a great success!
We are now finishing up with our “All About Apples” theme
and will move onto our “Fall” theme. We
have been incorporating the themes into our every day academic and language
groups. Ms. Sharon has also followed our
theme in her OT sessions! The learning concepts that we have been focusing on
are following directions, descriptions, classification and sequencing as well
as the core concepts of colors, numbers, counting, letters, phonics and sight
words.
We are gearing up for our field trip to the corn maze (be sure to get your permission slip
in!) and are excited about our “Orange Lunch” that will take place at the end
of the month (details to follow).
Our
October themes are Fall, Leaves, Pumpkins and Halloween!
Mark Your Calendar
October 8th- No
school, Columbus Day
October 16th-
Parent Night – 6:00pm
October 18th
– Ms. Amrita (librarian) here
October 26th-
No School – Teacher Work Day
October 23rd – Field Trip to Corn Maze
October 30th – Orange Lunch (Details to follow)
We have been exploring with different
sensory items and textures: shaving cream, beans, rice and nuts. You can continue
to do this as well at home!
Use the communication sheets to talk
to students about how well they are doing or things that they can work on for
the next day.
Friendly Reminders -
ü If you are running late or your child will be out of
school for the day, it would be helpful to our staff if you could notify us as
soon as possible at 704-443-2990
Notables:
* Remember you may
communicate with the staff by using
our email address
We encourage parents to share other professional’s reports (i.e. neurologist,
therapists-speech, OT, PT, ABA, or specialists) as it is very helpful to us to
better understand your child. All
reports will be kept confidential.
Thank you,
Linda, Laura, Jacqueline, Robin,
and Sharon
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