A special shout out to Emilia and Ella for making it to the International Beach Clean Up. It was such a success I think we are going to start meeting for beach cleanups on a fairly regular basis. As we move into October we will begin learning more about sea creatures and the ocean. I have posted a couple great sites if you are interested in adopting a manatee or a Loggerhead Sea Turtle nest please follow the links below. I adopted a Loggerhead nest for the school, and pretty soon we are going to have a representative from BSTP come in and talk with the students about sea turtles.
I think it would be nice if we could adopt a class manatee as well. I believe the fee is $25.00, and this is something that the students will try and get donations for.
http://www.savethemanatee.org/adoptpag.htm
http://www.bstp.net/
Some things to work on at home:
- READ READ READ: This group of students just love reading! Please make sure that you are reading with your child and your child is reading to you as much as possible.
- We just learned how to make yarn balls this week, and this is an excellent way for the students to develop their fine motor skills. If you have any spare yarn at home let your child organize it!
- We are really cruising with addition and subtraction. The class made flash cards this week for addition problems, and we are getting pretty fast with subtraction as well. If you are waiting in line somewhere or traveling in the car, throw some equations at them. For example, "What's 5 + 7? What's 10 - 7?"
- Throwing and catching is always a good thing to work on at home. Try and create a game where if you hit a certain object it's 3 points and if you hit something else it's minus 1 point. The kids love doing the math and it's a great way to reinforce eye hand coordination.
Here are some pictures from our yellow and blue painting. I love how everyone in the class got all the same materials, and all the paintings turned out so unique.
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