Brown Bears Newsletter: September 2024

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Happy September Brown Bears! We’ve made it through our first month together and have gotten to know each other a bit better. The students have done such a wonderful job learning and adhering to the expectations and routine in the classroom. Now, we’ll be moving forward to academics and continue our social emotional learning. Thank you so much for filling out and returning the questionnaire! We’ll do our best to make sure this year meets everyone’s needs 🙂

Theme: All About Me

Letters: A & B 

Social emotional: Emotions, expressions, calm down tools.

Mathematics: Basic shapes 

All About Me Project Sept. 13th

The students will be provided with a poster to fill out and decorate. 

Each student will have the opportunity to share their poster with the class on September 13th.

The presentations will be recorded and sent through Procare! 

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

As we start to introduce things like letter tracing, free hand writing, more complex self help skills, and family style dining we are asking for fine motor skills to be practiced at home! It is so incredibly important for the students to strengthen the muscles in their hands as this will help with everything else. Things like kneading playdough, squeezing a stress ball, climbing, stringing beads, weaving, building blocks, etc all help develop muscles.

Self help skills are also very important! Please give students opportunities to be independent and develop confidence in their abilities. For example, closing/opening/filling their water bottles, opening wrappers, pouring their own drink, peeling their own fruit, changing clothes, cleaning spills, etc

IMPORTANT DATES 

Sept 2nd – Labor day, school closed

Sept 13th – Early Closure pickup by 4PM

Sept 13th – All About Me presentations

Sept 16th – Mexico’s Independence Day “Dia del Grito”

Sept 22nd – First Day of Fall

REMINDERS

** If students are dropped off when everyone is already in the classroom, they need to be taken to the restroom beforehand so as to not interrupt free play/breakfast

** Blankets are taken home Fridays to be washed

** Water bottles need to be labeled and should be washed every day

** Flu season is coming soon! If a student is sick and is fatigued, please keep them home. Medicine does not last the whole day it wears off by nap time! ILLNESS AFFECTS EVERYONE