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August Newsletter
With summer well under way, I
am very excited about the activities that we will be doing in August.
The kiddies will spend part of their day outside enjoying the sun. Other activities for toddlers and two-fours are listed below.
Toddler’s Activities
This month’s theme is basic
shapes, such as circles, squares, triangles, etc. We are also going
to continue doing letter sounds, our sounds for this month is “c”,
and learning the formation of c and number 1.
Two
– Four’s Activities
Language
Rhymes
The kiddies will learn to play
with a new set of ‘Rhymes Puzzle Cards’. They will be given a set
of cards with each card having a word and corresponding picture. I will
first demonstrate how to play the game by matching cards together that
rhyme and then have the children repeat what I said and did. After I
reviewed all the cards with them, cards will be mixed up and let each
child try to assemble the cards together that rhyme. To help challenge
the kids, I would ask them follow-up questions like “What sounds do
‘gate’ and ‘skate’ both end with?” and “What two words both
end in ‘ed’?”
Language Cards
(go-together)
We will use another set of cards
and play another matching style game. The goal is to match two cards
that are related in some way like ‘jar’ and ‘cookies’ (e.g.,
cookies go inside a jar) or ‘flashlight’ and ‘batteries’ (e.g.,
batteries go inside a flashlight). I will first demonstrate some
possible
matching cards and have each child repeat the association. Afterwards,
I scramble the cards and have the kiddies determine which of the cards
match. Later in the month, we will build on these skills to play a
matching
game. All the cards will be placed face down and on a given turn, a
player can flip over any two cards as they try to find a matching
‘go-together’
pair. If the two cards match, the player describes how they go together,
keeps the pair and takes another turn. If the two cards do not match,
we turn them over in place and the next player takes his/her turn. Other activities will include:
- Practice formation
of upper case and lower case letter a to z
- Learning to write
the 7 days of the week (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday)
- We will learn the
spellings of basic colors Red, Blue, Green, Yellow
Math
Children work on their numbers.
Almost every one recognizes the numbers up to 20. Teen ten boards help
them to read and write higher numbers preparing them to fill up the
hundred board.
Writing numbers from 1 to 30
Writing numbers in words from
1 to 5
Science
Our Science exciting experiments
will help them to make first scientific discoveries.
- Investigate light
and reflection
- Create amazing mixtures
- Experiment with water
Ismat
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Interesting Old
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- Article from Home News Feb
1993.pdf
- Article from News Tribune Nov
1990.pdf
- Article from Working Mother
Magazine July 1995.pdf
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