N E W S & L E S S O N S F R O M M S. K A L T R I N A & M S. D I A N E ’ S C L A S S
Issue: November 2-13, 2020
Dear parents,
Happy November!
October is gone! It has been a great school year so far. It is a great joy to come to work every day and see our loving bright students and having very supportive parents. We really appreciate it.
Over the past two weeks we learned about Five Senses and Halloween.
We worked on our five senses crafts, read books, played games and got familiar with the five senses. We also had so much fun prepping about Halloween parade, singing songs and make fun Halloween crafts. We enjoyed pumpkin picking on our school’s garden, pumpkin decorating, carving Jack- o- Lantern and we also ate roasted pumpkin seeds for snack.
In science we had so much fun with Ms. Marie’s Haunted Science lab. The exploding Pumpkin experiment got everyone so amazed, and we all left the science lab with a secret message gift from the ghost.
We also finished this week with the Halloween Parade and the Apple tasting/ Voting Day. On Thursday we all voted on our favorite apple and got to count/ tally the votes and each student got a “I Voted’ sticker.
All the best,
Kaltrina, Diane, Marie and Ruby
Our theme for this upcoming two weeks is “Helping Friends”
We will be talking/ learning about friendship, kindness and Peace Education. In addition to their Montessori work, the students will continue to work on the letter of the week, which will be the letter H and I, and the numbers of the week 4 and 5.
Art:
In art we will continue to work on coloring inside the lines, cutting on the straight and curved lines.
Letter H and I cutting and pasting activity
Cultural Arts/Geography:
Seven Continents/ North America
Language:
In language we will continue with our phonics morning routine (letter, sound) reciting. We will practice the letter of the week, beginning sound activity, and the sign language for the letter of the week.
Sandpaper letters
CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words- short vowel a, e
Reading Pink Series Montessori cards
Printing letters on the paper with lines
Making the letters out of playdough
Sand tray tracing the letter of the week
Math:
Tracing and writing numbers
Addition with beads
Numerals and counters
Intro to the decimal system
Practical Life:
Button frame
Zipping frame
Snaping frame
Washing a large object
Sorting fall colors pom poms using tweezers
Science:
Sink or Float
Hot and Cold water
Sensorial:
Sound cylinders
Triangle box
Binomial cube
Color tablets
Remember to look for the monthly calendar with current reminders being sent home and
Fri Nov 20th Parent/Teacher ZOOM conferences (info coming soon)!