COUNTRY CHILDREN’S HOUSE
NEWSLETTER
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APRIL
SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS
welcome to school!
MATH & SENSORIAL
“D week-In sensorial, we worked with
textured dominoes finding which designs felt the
same and which felt different. In Math we
worked on counting by 10’s. We played a daisy
work which involved matching the correct number
to the correct daisy with that many petals on it.
We learned that a dozen of something is equal to
12. We worked on sequential order with a dot-to
-dot activity.
“XYZ week”-We talked about the value and
names of coins and paper money. We reviewed
the numbers 1-20. We enjoyed favorite past
works. We measured yellow yarn and counted yoyos. We talked about the quantity zero, means
nothing.
“Sh” week-We enjoyed playing shape BINGO all
week. We enjoyed counting ships and matching
ships this week. We had fun playing a game involving putting shells on a sandy beach.
SCIENCE & GEOGRAPHY
“D” week-Dinosaurs-We learned that they are no
longer alive, but we know they existed because of the
large fossils that we have found in the Earth. A person
who studies dinosaurs is called a Paleontologist. We
learned about the meat-eating dinosaurs-carnivores,
and the plant-eating dinosaurs-herbivores. Desert-a
desert is a place that gets hardly any rain. Many animals come out in the darkness to avoid the heat and we
call that group nocturnal. We enjoyed our dentist visitor and studied dental health.
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LANGUAGE &
PRACTICAL LIFE
We talked about blends and digraphs, learning
that some letters when put together make a different sound than they do by themselves. This
is a hard concept, but when grasped, it makes
learning to read much easier. We have all grown
so much this year.
Keep practicing writing your letters!!!!
“D” week-Choices included doll & dinosaur
works. We celebrated St. Patrick’s Day.
-It was wonderful to have Dr. Forgey & Dr.
Charlie teach us about how to take care of our
teeth.
“XYZ week”-Along with our XYZ sound box and
letter gluing, choice works included: yarn gluing,
zoo animal stamping and practicing zipping. We
read What If The Zebras Lost Their Stripes? &
The Yukadoos.
“ Sh” week-Along with our “sh” sound box some
choice works included: a favorite-writing our
letters in shaving cream. In practical life we enjoyed shoe tying.
ART & MUSIC
“D” week-What a dancing week of fun. We
listened to Disney music, created dot art and
learned about Degas.
“XYZ week”-We enjoyed playing the xylophone. We painted with yellow paint and made
“XYZ week”- We talked about x-rays and viewed a real x zoo pictures. .
-ray in our classroom. We learned about zebras and
“Sh” week-We enjoyed listening to a variety of
their unique patterns. We learned that a zebra’s
show tunes during our class time together. We
stripes not only help to camouflage it from its enemies,
enjoyed shaving cream art. We enjoyed explorbut each has its own unique stripes like we have thumbing with clay, making different shapes.
prints.
“Sh” week-We discussed sharks & how they come in
many shapes & sizes-some have flattened bodies while
others are torpedo shaped. The shark’s scales are not
as soft & big as on the fish-they’re actually called denticles & rubbing them the wrong way can scrape your skin.
A shark can lose over 30,000 teeth in its lifetime. We
enjoyed learning about the sheep. We took a close look
at some seashells & discussed how each had once held a
soft & boneless bodied animal.
MONTESSORI CORNER
Art & Music-The children gain appreciation of
famous composers and artists through handson experience with numerous instruments and
techniques of art that are introduced each day
in the classroom.