April 17, 2024

 

Dear Parents,

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This past week, we finished our theme on Careers. This week we read When I Grow Up. This book showed the students a variety of jobs. It also provided an opportunity to talk about the fact that boys and girls can do many of the same jobs - doctors, police officers, fire fighters, teachers etc. We also looked at the tools needed for each career choice and completed a tool matching worksheet.

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 Both Tuesday and Wednesday the upper grades came to be our audience in the morning to help us practice for our show. The children did a wonderful job even though a few were very nervous. I was very happy they could feel the joy of this accomplishment.

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Wednesday we watched a short video titled, I can be a doctor by Laura Driscoll. The children learned that we have a tooth, bone, kid, baby, skin and many other types of doctors. We then created a paper doctor bag for dramatic play at home. The students had to cut out different tools a doctor could use and discard the other items like the paintbrush.

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As a large group, the children completed their police cars.

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Thursday we read Truck full of Ducks. The children then used different shapes to create a truck and we printed out a picture of what they wanted to transport. 

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A science colored water mixing experiment was placed in Mrs. Zajicek’s surprise suitcase. The children could pretend to be in a science lab and mix different colors of water to create a new color. This is now a favorite activity in our classroom.

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Many of our worksheets and art projects used the skill of cutting, listening to directions and position words. We also completed some as a large group to prepare for 4K.

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Next week we will begin another two week unit on Spring. Our letter of the week will be Y.

 

One in Christ,

Mrs. Zajicek