Nurery Rhymes and Fairy Tales
o It is amazing how many skills you can learn while talking about fairy tales. The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves provide us with opportunities to learn size sequencing, ordinal numbers and colors. We will hots our annual Toddle Towne Gingerbread Hunt, you do NOT want to miss this. Jack Sprat provides us with an opportunity to discuss good nutrition while Hickory Dickory Dock is a chance to learn placement words and Sleeping Beauty lets us practice naming body parts. We will celebrate king for a day as we make crowns just like Ole King Cole. Plus we found some beans and after reading Jack and the Beanstalk we think they might be magic beans so we are going to grow them and find out. Then we are off to the kitchen to make some treats for grandma as we read Little Red Riding Hood.
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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.