THE GOOFY GAZETTE

OCTOBER 7, 2011
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 3 - 7:
We read When Tilly Turtle Came to Tea, added many T items/pictures to our letter T baggie and learned what sound the letter T makes. We made a tree out of our paper letter T. We used tree bark for the trunk and selected beautiful Fall leaves to glue on top! We each received two tickets with pictures of T items on them. One picture at a time was pulled out of a truck. We were then asked, Who has the ticket with the T-T-Truck? The child who had that ticket chose a Tootsie Roll from our Tootsie Roll tree! We practiced writing the letter Tt on paper. We read through our Letter Tt book and circled all letter Tts. We made turtle tachistoscopes. We learned how to thread the picture strip through the slits on the turtles back and what words start with T. We traced many different shapes, played shape bingo and made shape concentration cards to take home one at a time and play! We finished our class book, Eleven Apples Up On Top! Inspired by Dr. Seuss Ten Apples Up on Top. We hope you enjoy reading it as we pass it around. We painted with a toothbrush and toothpaste. Our classroom smelled sparkling clean! We learned a new song, Splendid Senses (words below). We read about our five senses and played Whats the Sense? (matching the picture with the sense) We used our sense of touch with our feeling bag activity. We each had the opportunity to reach inside the bag and feel the item then use words to describe the item to our friends. After each description and several guesses, we pulled the item out to see if our guess was correct. We used our sense of smell as we washed the dishes in our sensory table. We sniffed lemon, apple and pumpkin dish soap as we scrubbed! We used our sense of taste at our tea party with our tie around our neck and teddy bear on our lap! We sipped tea, enjoyed some delicious tea cookies and a tootsie roll for dessert. What fun we had! Our favorite part had to be pouring and sipping our tea as we went through a half-gallon of tea (apple juice). We used our sense of hearing as we drew by ear. Ms. Kim played a recording of slow music and encouraged us to draw on one half of the paper, pay attention to how the music made us feel. We repeated the process with fast music on the remaining half of the paper.

We then discussed our drawings and how the music made us feel. We also listened to and tried to replicate rhythm patterns with our instruments. We used our sense of sight on our highly anticipated field trip to Windmill Farm Market. We saw beautiful blue skies, plump orange pumpkins and a wagon that was full of hay for us to ride in. We had a great time. We learned two new Sing & Spell sight word songs (words below) and reviewed the previous eight. In sign language we learned how to say the following: What is your name, my name is, old and new! During Storybook Caf, we read Shape Space and made shape munchers!

WORDS OF WISDOM...A TURTLE TRAVELS ONLY WHEN IT STICKS ITS NECK OUT.

COMIN G UP NEXT WEEK...Letter Ff, Fall, Fire Safety Week (dont forget to bring in an
item that begins with the letter F!)

INFO & REMINDERS

If you get the opportunity, go on a leaf hunt with your child this weekend and have them bring in 10 of their favorite leaves! Next Friday, we are going to read Leaf Man and make aut-yum leaves for Storybook Caf. The following Friday then we will read One Crow: A Counting Rhyme and make Fantastic Farm Mix. Thank you Lily for filling our Extra Special Person basket with the items you love and sharing them with us! EVA will be our Star of the Week for next week! The concept activity bags are sent home on Mondays and do not need to be returned until the following Monday. If you chose to send your bag back early, a new bag will not be sent home until the next Monday. Children will not receive a new bag until the previous bag is returned. Our numbers interactive class book and Eleven Apples Up On Top class book are making their rounds! We are also sending around our Shape Concentration game that we made. Please take about 2 days to read/interact with the book and send it back so another friend can take a turn. Enjoy!

MARK YOUR CALENDARHarvest/Halloween Party will be Friday, October 28th. Your

child is welcome to wear his/her Halloween costume. Please send in 10 individually wrapped treats to share that day (candy or food)!
Splendid Senses
(Sung to the tune of The Bear Went Over the Mountain)

My [eyes] are made for [seeing]. My [eyes] are made for [seeing]. My [eyes] are made for [seeing]. So I can [see] my world. Continue with the following: earshearing, nosesmelling, mouthtasting, handstouching IS I spell is I S, I S It doesnt have a z I spell is I S, I S Theres just no foolin me! (repeat) LIKE I like you! You like me! I spell like L I K E, With a great big hug And a kiss for you and me I spell like L I K E! (repeat)