Dear Families,
Please ask your child...
To tell you what we celebrate in September/October? (National Hispanic Heritage Month; we will soon talk about “why” we celebrate)
To tell you the country are we studying? (Mexico)
To tell you what an author does (writes the words in a book)
To tell you what an illustrator does (creates the pictures in a book)
To name the seasons
To explain what a cycle is (something that happens over and over again in the same order)
To tell you why the seasons change (the earth orbits around the sun)
To tell you how long it takes the earth to make one trip around the sun
To tell you in which season the days are shorter/longer
To tell you what the equator is (an imaginary line that divides the earth in half)
To tell you what feelings are
To tell you how their body feels when they are excited, mad, or tired
To show you one of the mindful breaths they learned this week
To tell you how taking mindful breaths help us
To tell and show you the sounds and motions for the letters "m" and “n”
To show you how to write the letters "m" and “n”
To name 5 things that start with the letters "m" and “n”
To tell/show you how to take a "picture walk" with a book
look at the cover of the book & guess what the book is about
turn the pages to see where the characters go & what they do
think about what might happen in the book & tell yourself the story
your story should be close or match the pictures on the pages
To name things that we can use to help us count (fingers, counters, connecting cubes)
To tell you what a ten frame is and how it helps us count
To show you how to hold their pencil using Ally the Alligator
To tell you what their rose, thorn, and bud was for school this week
Enjoy the conversations!
Kim and Marie