ECSE Newsletter

January 10 - January 14, 2022


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January 10-14, 2022:

Construction 2

This week we will continue our construction theme, with a little winter too! Our circle time activities, books, and work will have a construction and/or winter theme. We will continue with the concepts introduced last week.

Circle Time

Color Songs Black and White: We will sing our color songs and talk about the letters in the words.

Danny Diamond: We will identify diamonds that we see around our classroom and will practice drawing diamonds with corners.

Letter Pp song with objects and picture identification, making Pp with lines and curves

Construction vocabulary and photo cards

Sequencing cards: steps in building a house

Story time/Read alouds

Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site

Mighty, Mighty Construction Site

What Will It Be?

Under Construction

The Three Little Pigs

The Snowman

Play and Work centers

Sort and identify mitten colors

Sort and identify shapes, match shapes to build a snowflake

Count and match snowman sets to numbers

Writing/tracing names, lines, shapes in journals

Winter fine motor work; coloring and cutting

Building and constructing with different types of blocks

Torn Paper Snowman Art

Home Living, Toy Center, Books, Fine Motor/Art, Sensory Table, and Motor Lab on a rotating basis


Upcoming Events and Reminders


We have depleted our classroom stock of pull ups and diapers. Please send a supply of 3-4 diapers/pull ups in your child's backpack each day as needed. Please also make sure your child has a change of clothing in his/her backpack in case of accidents. Please label everything, including all outerwear!