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Focused language skills this month will include patterns and vocabulary including opposites, placement words, rhymes and personal and standard sight words. In the area of math, children will be working with money and on number recognition. Children will become more aware of themselves as they work on recognizing and naming body parts and becoming more independent in dressing themselves from putting on their own shoes and socks to buttoning and zipping their coats. To develop both fine and gross motor skills, children will work with puzzles and balls.
Daily activities and updates are sent directly to parents through our ProCare app.
Skill Goal Focus
A monthly personal progress plan will be written for each child each month. Teachers will be using the plan to schedule your child's activities. The teachers will mark the plans as skills are reviewed or mastered. At the end of unit, the plans will be sent home to keep parents abreast of their child's development. Focused skills will be taken from cognitive, self-help, social skills and gross and fine motor areas. Children will work on the identified skills at the level that is most appropriate to their development. If colors are identified as a focus skill, some children will be matching colors, others will be identifying colors, and others will be reading color words. Each skill will be emphasized many times throughout the year and mastery can be expected to take several months. The Personal Progress Plans are to assist the teachers in planning appropriate activities; they are not report cards and should not be used to judge the success or failure of the child. Do not feel you must "teach" identified concepts at home, but rather be aware of what we are doing so that you can take advantage of any incidental learning opportunities.