November 6, 2024

 

Dear Parents,

This past week we talked about Friendship. What it means to be a friend and how to do this. We watched a short video of the story The Rainbow Fish. The fish in the story didn’t want to play with the other fish and wouldn’t share any of his special sparkly scales with the others. He became lonely and wanted friends. He finally decided to share a scale and realized sharing made him happy. He ended up giving all but one of his scales away and became friends with all the other fish, joining them in their fun. We talked about the qualities of being a good friend - sharing, helping hands, talking to each other and playing together.

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All week the children were paired up with different friends from the classroom to play in a specific area for about 10 minutes. Mrs. Klemp and I encouraged the children to talk to each other and play together instead of parallel play.

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In gym class we divided into two groups, made a circle and rolled a ball to a friend. When the friend got the ball he/she said their name and all of us repeated it. We are really striving for them to know each other’s names. Please take out their friend's book at home and review this with them.

Other stories read were How to Grow a Friend and Fox and Squirrel.

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For art the children created their own rainbow fish using our Do-A-Dot markers. We added one sparkly scale so they can remember to be like the Rainbow fish and share. The students also used the math concept of patterning to create a necklace. After all the necklaces are done, the children will exchange theirs with one of their preschool friends. The pattern we used was ABA creating a necklace with two colors.

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Thank you for attending our Parent/Teacher conferences. We will have another more in depth conference after the 3rd quarter. Please be assured, you can email me at any time if you have questions or concerns.

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Next week, we will begin a two week unit on Thanksgiving. Our letter of the week will be F. Please help your child find one item from your home that starts with the letter F for our letter parade.

 

One in Christ, 

Mrs. Zajicek and Mrs. Klemp