This morning during circle time the children were introduced to addition with color beads. This lesson helps enforce addition skills, handwriting skills, recognition of numerals and prepares them for more advanced addition. Ask your child what it means to add. (put everything together and count it) This is an easy concept to practice with your child at home.

During Soccer Shots the children played a great game against each other. Their word of the day was Sportsmanship. They practiced sportsmanship with all the team’s players.

Happy Birthday, Olivia! Thank you for sharing yummy cookies with us.

Tomorrow is Chapel. It begins at 10:30. We will also experience our 1st Yoga class. Girls are encouraged to wear shorts and or shorts under their dresses.

This morning during music class Mr. Jason brought in an African drum called a Djembe drum. The children enjoy taking turns playing this unique drum. Mr. Jason also brought along Ollie the elephant to help the children learn more about the Djembe drum. Ask your child if they remember what the Djembe drum is made out of?

Happy Birthday, Ms. Yessica! Have a beautiful day.

Tomorrow we have Soccer Shots. Tennis shoes are the safest for this class.

Being able to count in a numerical order and to count quantity is an important skill for the children to learn. So, todays lesson is sure to help further develop this skill. Incorporating counting at home can be a simple and fun activity for you and your child to do together. Here are a few ideas, If you order pizza ask your child to count the number of slices it is cut in, Count how many black (or other color)cars they see on the commute home, Count the number of books they have in their book collection, Count a zip lock baggie full of beans or other item you can fill the bag with. Always remember, practicing rote counting without objects is important too.

Monday is music class. This class begins at 9:00.

This morning the children enjoyed working with puzzle picture cards of items found around the house. This lesson helps to expand vocabulary and recognition of what the written word looks like for a certain item. A fun activity to do at home is to see how many items your child can identify within the home.

Jumpbunch class was a lot of fun. The children used their gross motor skills and their eye/hand coordination playing a game of bean bag toss. Ask your child if they were able to throw their beanbag into the bucket.

Lets play a game of I Spy. Can you find the lizard on this tree? The children were able to spy it quickly during morning play time.

Tomorrow is dance class. Children may come dressed in their dance clothes.

This morning during Montessori circle time the children were introduced to Syllables. They are learning how to clap out the parts in a word to help them count the number of syllables the word has. Every did a wonderful job understanding this concept.

Tomorrow is Jumpbunch class. Tennis shoes are the safest shoes for this class.

Book orders are due tomorrow.