good morning and welcome back to school! Yes, I am dog tired, but I feel like we had an awesome first week of preschool! We had a tiny bit of crying in the morning class, but those afternoon veterans walked in and picked right up where they left off! It was great! Our new COTA (certified occupational therapy assistant) Miss Jeannie has been in with us in the afternoon class, as well as Mrs. Dana, Miss LIsa and MIss Katie. We're doing some baseline screening to see where everyone is with hand dominance, grasp, color, number, letter shape ID, beginning name printing, language concepts, etc. We learned a new song "Pick up a Crayon" to help us remember how to hold our crayon. We have brand new 'green books" which are our Handwriting Without Tears workbooks that we'll be using all year. These are awesome because it's not just handwriting, but concepts of print, language concepts, math concepts all rolled into one! Next week we'll begin working together to learn to print our first names in uppercase letters. If your child wants to practice at home for you, you can be a huge help by reinforcing uppercase for now, and also STARTING THE LETTERS AT THE TOP!!!!! Thanks! This week we're also going to learn all about #1. We'll learn to make a #1 with our "work dough" and also with the "wet-dry-try" method on chalk boards. We are also going to work in a little book all about #1. We have a lot of work to do on counting sets accuratelty and identifying numerals. Any at home practice in this area is appreciated. Thursday is yellow day-same as last year: wear something yellow, and bring in a little something to add to a yellow collage. The morning class will start the week with singing"The Wheels On The Bus" and we'll have all kinds of "bus" activities. We're going to learn to use a glue stick appropriately by making a cute little bus craft and wee're even going to make a headband with our names in buses! We'll talk about the fact that buses are yellow as well as the sun and Thursday will be YELLOW DAY! On color days, we all try to wear that color and bring in something small that can be glued on a group collage. Our yellow activities will continue into Monday, for the children who aren't in attendance on Thursday. We'll be exploring yellow fingerpaint and even making our own little book about yellow! It should be lots of fun. I want to thank everyone who has already returned all the first day paperwork, and I would like the remainders tomorrow if at all possible. Thanks to everyone who sent in class supplies, and a special thanks to Alice's family for providing the playdoh we'll need for our HWT lessons in the afternoon class. I feel like we've gotten drop off and pick up times squared away and the bus schedules will level out soon as well. If anyone has questions, feel free to e-mail me any time. Hooray for a great first week! Enjoy the sunny Sunday and have a great week! Robin
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