November Newsletter

November
Dear Families,

I’m sending home a basic layout of the activities, snacks, and themes we will be learning and doing during the month of November. Since my Wednesday class only meets once a week, I will be combining Tuesday/Thursday lessons so that my Wednesday children learn about the same things the older children learn, just not quite as in depth. I wish to remind you, we will not be having class November 27th as we all celebrate Thanksgiving!!

November 4 – 13 – GOTTA BE ME!

*Tuesday, Nov. 4/ Wednesday, Nov. 5 –MY SENSE OF SMELL – Bb
Today we’ll be exploring all different sorts of smells, from food to things around the house. We’ll be making smelly art, playing with scented playdough, make our own scratch and sniff pictures, and more! For snack we’ll be using a few different senses as we make and watch our very own popcorn pop!

*Thursday, Nov. 6 – MY SENSE OF SIGHT – Bb
We’ll be reading “Brown Bear, Brown Bear” and making our own book of “Preschooler, Preschooler, What Do You See?” We’ll see what it’s like to be blindfolded and discuss what kinds of things we would miss out on. We’ll learn some simple hand sign language, make magnified pictures, and more. For snack we’ll have colored Goldfish and sort the different colors!

*Tuesday, Nov. 11/ Wednesday, Nov. 12 –MY SENSE OF TASTE – Cc
Today we will be a fun eating day full of lots of things to taste. From dill pickles, to cookies, lemons, salty chips, and more! We’ll talk about different tastes and which ones we like best. We’ll sing Make Myself Some Cookies by Thomas Moore. We’ll be making favorite food pictures, we’ll make our recipe dictations, the children can explore in the restaurant at dramatic play, and we’ll be making peanut butter play dough for snack today!!

*Thursday, Nov. 13 – CELEBRATING ME!! – Cc
Today we’ll talk about the different things we learned about ourselves and the different things we can all do. We’ll also talk about when our birthdays are and why they are special. We’ll be making special ‘ME’ hats, celebrating birthdays in the dramatic play area, and learning why it’s so great to be ME. For snack today we’ll have bananas and grapes.

November 18-26 – THANKSGIVING

*Tuesday, Nov. 18/ Wednesday, Nov. 19 – MY FAMILY- Letter Dd
We will talk about what makes a family, in the traditional sense of the word and we’ll label family members, then we will talk about other families we have and how we, as a class, are a family too. We’ll role play with puppets, read ‘The Family Book’ by Todd Parr, and make a book about our family. For snack we’ll make heart-shaped love sandwiches.

*Thursday, Nov. 20 – Thanks – Letter Dd
We will talk about Thanksgiving and why it is a holiday. We will talk about other fall harvest holidays around the world and explain that it is a time of thanks. We’ll read, “Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks” by Margaret Sutherland, introduce Rude Rodney, and make thank-you cards. For snack we’ll serve each other cheese and crackers.

*Tuesday, Nov. 25/ Wednesday, Nov. 26 – THE FIRST THANKSGIVING- Letter Ee
We will talk about our own family traditions for Thanksgiving and our plans for Thursday. Then we will discuss the first Thanksgiving and what happened there. We’ll read “Five Silly Turkeys” and make our own silly turkeys, play games the pilgrim children may have played, and have our own Thanksgiving dinner of mashed potato, turkey, and pie!

No School Thursday November 27th. Eat lots of (healthy) food!