August-September, 2013
Academy of Our Saviour
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VPK Newsletter
Monthly Themes and Purpose
8/20 Back to School - Getting to know friends and teachers. Learning rules and schedules. Learning to work in
large and small groups. Writing our names.
9/2 Dinosaurs – Learning about different kinds of dinosaurs, when they lived fossils
9/9 Senses – Learn about our 5 senses and how we use them
9/16 – Learning about the change of seasons
Letters of the Month
M, F, N, H
Math of the Month
Counting and Graphs
Shapes of the Month
Review of basic shapes
Afternoon Enrichment
Letter People Journal, Sight Word Journal and Write and Draw Journal and Science Class
8/20 Preparing aprons for future cooking projects. Color explosions experiment to learn about
mixing colors. Primary and Secondary colors.
8/26 Make a Magic Stick (from the book, “The Magic Stick”), Cooking Muffins (from the book, “If You
Give a Moose a Muffin”)
9/2 Making Dinosaur Fossils, Hallway Dinosaur Mural
9/9 Finger printing, Cooking “Fruit Fondue”, 5 Senses hands on expirements: Touch, Hear, See, Taste,
Smell
9/19 Cooking “Nacho Nibbles”
9/28 Cooking Apple Pie, Making Johnny Appleseed Hats
Center Time and Learning
8/20 Cutting and pasting, making a counting book, shape graph and sorting
Activites
8/ 26 Meet Mr. “M”, learning the letter and phonics of “M”, writing “M”, Sight Word “the”,
Marble art, Mouse, Mask, Moose, Marshmallow crafts
9/9 Meet Ms. “F”, the letter and phonics of “F”, writing “F”, Sight Word “and”, Frog Craft,
Senses-Hand, Scholastic News, Senses bag, Firework Painting, Using Senses in Centers
9/16 Tracing Numbers 1-10, Meet Mr. “N”, learning the letter and phonics of “N”, writing “N”, Sight
Word “A”
9/23 First Day of Fall, Living Graph, Apple Tree, Sequencing, Meet Mr. “H”, learning the letter and
phonics of “H”, writing “H”, Sight Word “to”
Books of the Month
The Magic Stick,
If You Give a Moose a Muffin,
If You Take A Mouse to School,
Bad Hair Day
Hats, Hats, Hats
Meet Tammy Tryers,
First Day Jitters,
Speical Announcemets
9/24
9/27
Happy Hair Day (wear your happy and crazy hair)
Hat Day (wear your favorite hat)
Wish List
Large paint sticks (free from Home Depot or Lowes) by 8/24, Wooden clothes pins, Round magnet
Buttons, Marshmallows, Macaroni, different types of Pasta, Paper bowls (not Styrofoam), Toothpicks
Home Activities
Tracing name
Writing letters and numbers
Finding and cutting pictures from magazines that begin with the letter of the week
Family