Learning Bees Preschool 2017-2018: September 2015

I love the smell of Autumn in the air! So looking forward to one of my favorite field trips--the Pumpkin Patch! Please be sure to scroll down to read the monthly news. Red is the MWF class. Blue is the T/Th class.

M/W/F A.M.class O c t o b e r

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9/27 wear red--->	28 Capital 'O' Shape: Circle Color: Red Unit: My Body snack: Chloe	29 wear blue--->	30 Lowercase 'o' Shape: Triangle Color: Blue Unit: My Body snack: Easton	10/01/15	2 Review A, S, O There's a Monster in my House, by Philip Hawthorn snack: Kinzlee	3
4 wear orange --->	5 Capital 'P' Shape: Oval Color: Orange Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater snack: Annie	6 wear yellow --->	7 Lowercase 'p' Shape: Square Color: Yellow All about Me Posters: Easton & Tyce snack: Mie	8	9 Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano snack: Kacen	10
11	12 Color Wheel Fun with mixing colors! Snack: Tyce	13	14 Color Science Experiments Milky Science All about Me Posters: Claire & Annie Snack: Claire	15	16 No School (Fall Break) UEA	17
18	19 Field Trip to Pumpkin Patch! Preschool: 10:00am-12:30pm see details on back of calendar Snack: Miss SueZan	20 wear black --->	21 Shape: Diamond Color: Black Little Miss Muffet All About Me Posters: Kacen & Natalee snack: Natalee	22 ---> (Featuring 'When Vinegar meets Baking Soda') :)	23 Mad Scientist Experiments (insert maniacal laugh here.) :) Review letters A, S, O, P, H All About Me Posters: Chloe & Mie Snack: Kenzie	24
25 wear gray --->	26 Capital 'H' Shape: Rectangle Color: Gray, wear gray All About Me Poster: Tanner & Kinzlee snack: Tanner	27	28 Halloween Party!*** Lowercase “h” WEAR YOUR COSTUME! snack: Miss SueZan	29	30 Fun in the Kitchen**: Halloween Recipes & Letter Factory snack: Miss SueZan	31 Happy Halloween!

Please be sure to read the preschool news on the back!

*PUMPKIN PATCH

The children are so excited for the Pumpkin Patch Field Trip coming up on Monday, October 19^th! Please note we will start at 10, but will not be back til 12:30. I will have a volunteer chaperone list up on the bulletin board in the preschool. So if you'd like to help drive, please sign it. Other children are welcome to join us too! Please invite other siblings, friends, or nieces and nephews if you want to! (Just be sure to add them to my headcount list on the bulletin board).

All preschoolers entrance fee is already taken care of, as well as up to four chaperones. However, other adults, siblings, or friends brought will need to pay $4/person (This includes a pumpkin, snack, and time to play in the activity zone). Our time slot begins at 11am, so we will need to leave early from the preschool. Please arrive on time that day so that we can get kids situated, buckled, and leave no later than 10:15.

If you have any other questions, please call or text me @(801) 645-4077 :D

--You may also meet us at the farm at 10:40 if you prefer, but please let me know your plan so I don't leave anyone behind. Thanks! – Black Island Farms: 3178 South 3000 West, Syracuse –

**End of Quarter day for Weber County School District: I know that in orientation I had said we wouldn't have school on the days Weber County is out, but we will have already taken UEA off so I am going to still hold school October 30^th. I hope everyone is ok with this adjustment for the month. :)

***HALLOWEEN PARTY: I need two volunteers to help with games for our Halloween Party. That sign up sheet will be on the bulletin board next to the field trip sign up sheet. I will provide the activity unless you have one you wish to bring.

ALL ABOUT ME POSTERS: In October and November in place of show n' tell we will be doing all about me posters. Have fun decorating it together. We will put them up in the classroom for the school year and then display them at preschool graduation in May. (You'll get to take them home graduation night.)

OTHER MONTHLY NEWS/REQUESTS: This month we'll be focusing on some colors and shapes. A great way to reinforce learning is to have the kids wear the color of the day or shape of the day. This not only will help them to register the knowledge better, but it is also a lot of fun for them to see that they are wearing what we are talking about! They get so excited! So I hope you will have fun with this. Also, please help reinforce colors and shapes at home, while you drive, etc. Test their knowledge and what they're learning. Give them choices with colors attached, i.e. “Would you like the red apple or the yellow banana?” You can also reinforce the letter of the day by trying to find it around you on billboards, street signs, or business signs. It doesn't have to be anything you go out of your way to do, but just in your everyday activities.

Thank you so much! Have a great October! And a Happy and safe Halloween!

Miss SueZan

T/Th A.M.class O c t o b e r

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9/27	28	29 Capital 'O' Shape: Circle Color: Red, wear red Unit: My Body snack: Ava	30	10/1 Lowercase 'o' Shape: Triangle Color: Blue, wear blue Unit: My Body snack: Daphne	2	3
4	5	6 Capital 'P' Shape: Oval Color: Orange, wear orange Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater All about Me Posters: Ava & Derek snack: Embry	7	8 Lowercase 'p' Shape: Square Color: Yellow, wear yellow All about Me Posters: Taj & Macie snack: Taj	9	10
11	12	13 Color Wheel Review Fun with mixing colors! All About Me Posters: Ada+Daphne Snack: Macie	14	15 No School (Fall Break) UEA	16	17
18	19	20Shape: Diamond Color: Black, wear black Little Miss Muffet All About Me Posters: Jaxson & Bennett snack: Bennett	21	22 Field Trip to Pumpkin Patch! Preschool: 9:30am-12:00pm see details on back of calendar* snack: Derek	23	24
25	26	27 Capital 'H' Shape: Rectangle Color: Gray, wear gray All About Me Poster: Cooper & Kenzie & Embry Snack: Cooper	28	29 Halloween Party!** Lowercase “h” WEAR YOUR COSTUME! snack: Jaxson	30	31 Happy Halloween!

Please be sure to read the preschool news on the back!

*PUMPKIN PATCH 9:30-12:00

The children are so excited for the Pumpkin Patch Field Trip coming up on Tuesday, October 2oth! I will have a volunteer chaperone list up on the bulletin board in the preschool. So if you'd like to help drive, please sign it. Other children are welcome to join us too! All preschoolers entrance fee is already taken care of, as well as up to four chaperones. However, other adults, siblings, or friends brought will need to pay $4/person (This includes a pumpkin, snack, and time to play in the activity zone). Our time slot for the hay ride begins at 11am, but we will play in the activity zone for a little while first so we will need to leave early from the preschool. I would like the preschoolers and any others coming to please arrive by 9:30 so we can get buckled and leave by 9:45*. If you have any other questions, please call or text me @(801) 645-4077 :D Please wear your Learning Bees' Preschool t-shirts!

--You may also meet us at the farm at 10am if you prefer, but please let me know your plan so I don't leave anyone behind. Thanks! – Black Island Farms: 3178 South 3000 West, Syracuse –

**HALLOWEEN PARTY: I need two volunteers to help with games for our Halloween Party. That sign up sheet will be on the bulletin board next to the field trip sign up sheet.

ALL ABOUT ME POSTERS: In October in place of show n' tell we will be doing all about me posters. Have fun decorating it together. We will put them up in the classroom for the school year and then display them at preschool graduation in May. (You'll get to take them home graduation night.)

Thank you so much! Have a great October! And a Happy and safe Halloween!

Miss SueZan

September 2015 memories

NATURE WALK

During the last full week of September, we welcomed Autumn by having a nature walk to a nearby field in my neighborhood. We gathered some items and attached them to paper back at the preschool.

Tyce made stems and twigs into his name

Snack time at the fieldWe read the books, It Looked Like Spilled Milk by Charles G. Shaw and a few other fall books before our walk

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S is for Snake day (Sept 21, MWF group. Sept 22, T/Th group)

This is a song we sang with snake sock puppets
Can you Move with Me?
Tune: Do your Ears Hang Low?
(Author unknown)
Can you wiggle like a worm? Can you squiggle, can you squirm? Can you flutter can you fly like a gentle butterfly? Can you crawl upon the ground like a beetle that is round? Can you move with me? Can you flip? Can you flop? Can you give a little hop? Can you slither like a snake? Can you give a little shake? Can you buzz like a bee that is buzzing round a tree? Can you move with me?

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Apple Recipes in the Kitchen

September 18th

We peeled and cored 3 lbs of apples and made applesauce from a recipe I found on a blog called The Pioneer Woman . It's such an easy recipe to follow and the kids had so much fun using my apple peeler.

The apple skin (now a string) was this big!

Apple Book Day and Apple Tasting (T/Th Sept 17th)

We made an apple book with a lowercase a on the front
Inside were apple songs we sang and pictures to color
Here's one of them:
10 LITTLE APPLES
Tune: 10 Little Indians
1 little, 2 little, 3 little apples
4 little, 5 little, 6 little apples. 7 little, 8 little, 9 little apples. 10 little apples to eat! Yum!

The students tried three different kinds of apples during snack and then I had them tell me their favorites. Red apples was the most popular in the MWF group!

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If you Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff

Sept 11th MWF class

In the book the mouse builds a house out of blocks and then makes some clay furniture. After snack time, I got out the blocks and had them make their own houses and neighborhood too. We then used play-doh to form chairs and slides (like the picture above), etc. It was lots of fun!