ECDC Miss Becky's Room

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Author Study ~ Don and Audrey Wood

This week we will began our new Author Study unit focusing Don and Audrey Wood. We will learn that Don and Audrey both write and illustrate children’s books. Some of their most recognizable children’s books include “The Big Hungry Bear and the Red Ripe Strawberry”, “Piggies”, “The Napping House”, “Silly Sally” and “Alphabet Adventure”. We will be learning about and discussing the role of an author and an illustrator.

Check out Don & Audrey Wood's Website

If your child has a favorite Don or Audrey Wood book at home that they would like to share with their classmates please feel free to send them in (please label your child’s book)!

Classroom Happenings

This week Miss Jen (our School Psychologist) did another great lesson on Feelings. She read 4 short stories about feelings (from the Inside Out movie collection) and then we sorted a variety of feeling cards into the 4 Zones of Regulation!

RED ZONE, YELLOW ZONE, BLUE ZONE and GREEN ZONE

Working on our "Special" Projects! Shhh.......it's a secret project :)

Writing Center - Family Puzzles

We LOVE when our Horace Mann Best Buddies visit our classroom!

Block Center ~ Building Houses and Roadways out of Brick Blocks

~We graphed November's weather~
During circle we took a look back at November's Weather!
We worked on counting (How many Cloudy days? Sunny? Rainy?) and comparing (Which weather did we have the Most/Least). The students took turns predicting what type of weather they thought we had the most of!

The results...November had more Sunny (10) days then Cloudy (9) days!

We also had 1 Rainy day and 5 Home days!

Some of our favorite Music & Movement Songs!

(Click on the links below)

"My Family" Laurie Berkner

"In A House" Signing Time

"Baby Shark"

"Action Songs for Kids"

Friendly School Reminders

Please REMEMBER to send your child into school everyday dressed to play outside!! Coats, snow pants (when there is snow on the ground), hats, mittens, boots, etc. We try to go outside every day, weather permitting. Make sure to LABEL all your child’s belongings!!

If you send your child into school wearing boots, PLEASE don’t forget to pack a pair of shoes/sneakers in his/her backpack to change into. For Safety Reasons, we ask that you NOT send in slippers.

No School Friday December 8th - Parent Teacher Conferences

No School December 25th - January 1st - Holiday Break

Classroom Donations

Soft Soap (individual and refills)

Plastic Spoons

Styrofoam trays

Children's Magazines (e.g., Ranger Rick, Family, Animals, etc.)

Thank you!

Have a WONDERFUL week!

Miss Becky

Sunday, November 19, 2017

Family Fun

Over the last two weeks our unit has focused on Families! We have had a lot of fun learning about each others families. During circle the students enjoyed sharing their "House Projects". We talked about who is in our family (e.g., Mommy, Daddy, Brother, Sister, Grandparents, and let's not forget our furry family members), counted how many people were in our family and lastly shared something special we like to do with our family (e.g., Go to the park, visit the beach, go to Disney, watch a movie, play outside, etc.). There is still plenty of time to send your project in if you haven't already :)

We read the story Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman and practiced feeding baby birds with Miss Sandra during our OT Skills Group! Catching those squirmy worms was hard!

Click here to listen to the story

This week (Tuesday November 21st) we are excited to celebrate OUR FAMILIES with a special classroom visit! Invitations went home last week and we can't wait to share our classroom with you. We will sings two of our favorite songs, read a story and decorate a fun-shaped cookie!

Time: 12:15 p.m. -1:15 p.m.

Take a peek into our classroom to see what we have been learning!