WELCOME TO OCTOBER!!
1. SAMOSAS - We will be doing our Samosa fundraiser this month and starting on October 11th, you will receive information on how to order. Pick up will be on Nov. 2nd from 11:30-12:45pm
What is happening in the CLASSROOMS??
RAINBOW ROOM
A big welcome to our new and returning families! Thank you parents for all your support and patience during gradual entry. It’s been a great success!
Our youngest members of St. Catherine’s Preschool are beginning to settle in nicely to the program. Most are happy to stretch their boundaries. A few still need a little more time to feel secure with Mom and Dad leaving. Such is the nature of our two year olds. Often this is their first experience away from family.
Two year olds like to be independent. Favourite words are “mine” and “no” and “I do it”. Emotions take on a roller coaster like quality as 2 year olds can go from excitement to anger to laughter within a few minutes. The most interesting area of child development is their language development and the blossoming of their speech. Another interesting development is the beginning of pretend play - playing with dolls, dishes and dress-up clothes.
Some ideas for parents:
-Read to your children everyday. Encourage them to look at books; simple story lines are best.
-Let children help you with simple chores such as picking up toys or putting clothes in the laundry basket.
-Give two’s clear and simple choices: Do you want to drink milk or juice?
-Encourage verbal skills by giving simple directions.
A little information about our Rainbow Room:
We setup the rooms in a way that facilitates exploration and discovery through play. Two year olds love painting, splashing in the water table, playing in the housekeeping corner, and singing and dancing at circle time.
The month of October we will be talking about Thanksgiving, Fall and Halloween.
We are still waiting for a few more family photos. Children love to look at these photos especially if they are missing you
Here’s the song we sing before having snack:
God is great
God is good
And we thank him for our food
We’re going to thank him in the morning, noon and night
We’re going to thank him coz he’s out of sight
Amen
We look forward to an exciting year, a year of tremendous growth in confidence and abilities. We hope that this first group experience will be an enjoyable and memorable one both for you and your child. At pick up time, please check our white board outside for a synopsis of our day.
Please feel free to talk to us if you have any questions or concerns.
TREEHOUSE ROOM
Thank you for your trust in us to spend many happy hours, days, months, even years with your young treasures! It’s been a challenging, but rewarding few weeks to get to know all the children, their personalities, their preferences or dislikes.
We started it all off by creating a poster with the children's handprints and then we had a conversation on how to be inclusive and caring and a good friend.
The new mural in the hallway is fantastic and some children love to take more frequent bathroom breaks just to look at it. Please ask your children what animals they can name that live in our province that are also painted on the wall!
The weather has been fantastic so far, but please remember to dress your children in layers as the mornings are chilly and the playground could be wet. Extra clothes in their backpacks would also be appreciated.
Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns!
SUNFLOWER ROOM
Welcome back Everyone! We are very excited and
happy to meet some new and old friends in our Sunflower Classroom.
Over the next 10 months, we have lots of learning, playing and discovering new things planned. We will be making new friends, exploring with art and learning to listen and understand new things at circle time.
For the first week of School, we spent lots of time playing and learning about our new classroom & friends. We sang name games and action rhymes. We also talked about our number one rule “No-one Gets Hurt” & we read “What does it mean to be Kind?’. For art we used our hands to decorate our Sunflower poster. We listened to the felt story ‘Leo the Lion’ and heard how a tiny mouse could make friends with a lion. We also introduced the game ‘Stop & Go’, where we used pictures of things that are a stop or a go… We read ‘The Kissing Hand’ and used diffusing paper to make matching handprints.
We moved onto exploring Ourselves and our
Families. For circle we talked about who lives in our house and what color
hair/eyes we had. We read ‘Whoever
you are’ & ‘I’m Like You, You’re Like Me’. For
art we used a mirror to work out what color eyes & hair we have, where our
nose & lips go to make a self-portrait. We used rectangles and triangles to make our
own houses – some were small, some wide and some were tall. In the water table
we had small houses and people to play with. We had babies and baby stuff in
the home corner.
For the last week of September, we listened to the CD stories about ‘Pete the Cat’. Two of the popular stories were ‘Pete the Cat and his Groovy Buttons’ & Pete the Cat & His White Shoes.’ We had fun singing along to the CD stories and acting out being a ‘cat’. We played the game ‘Find the shoe’ and “What color jacket is missing?’ We made shoe prints with blue, red & white paint and decorated Pete the Cat with glue, paint and whiskers. We were ‘Vets’ in the home corner with stuffed cats & dogs and matched colored shoes on the light table. In the water table we got to mix ‘colored shaving cream’ and add buttons to our creations.
In October we will be talking about
Thanksgiving, Fall and Halloween.
Please remember to pack more food than less
(one container for snack & one for lunch) as we are here for 4 hours a day,
so the children get hungry. We have seen
some yummy lunch/snack suggestions over the last few weeks. For e.g. veggies
& dip, grilled cheese sandwich, boiled eggs, pasta in a thermos, waffles
& sushi. So much variety makes the teachers want to upgrade their lunches 😊. We will also be going outside to play when
it’s not raining, so pack appropriate footwear & jackets.
If you have any questions, please feel free
to contact the office so we can arrange a meeting after school hours.
RESOURCE OFFICE
