Wow!! What an amazing start to our year. I must tell you how impressed we are with your little Ladybugs! The beginning of the school year can be super exciting, sometimes a bit scary, and it is often difficult for the children to navigate all the new routines and expectations. As you know, we put a high value on teaching social skills and self regulation at CCP, using Conscious Discipline as our guide. Well…even with all the big emotions they may be having, these kiddos are already paying attention to each other’s feelings and responding with so much kindness!! ❤️ Bravo!! We’ve even seen friends using our Safe Space to take a break & calm themselves with the tools there (our breathing ball, especially). We told them they need to pat themselves on the back & give each other a round of applause!!
Some of their favorite activities this week were feeling the slippery, cool fingerpaint glide under their fingers as they mixed red & blue to make purple, building waterfalls, castles, tunnels and more with our new rainbow “blocks”, making obstacle courses & balancing on the giant blocks on the playground, dancing in princess dresses, using big arm motions to paint and draw at the easel, and filling our new color houses with MILLIONS of pompoms in the sensory table!
This week we introduced our classroom jobs, as well. Each week each child will have a new job to do. Having jobs not only teaches responsibility, but it fosters community and gives the children a sense of pride and accomplishment. Our jobs are:
Star Breath (leads us in taking one of our 4 types of breaths as part of our Brain Smart Start)
Wish Well (moves friends into the heart to wish well)
Calendar (adding a number & counting them along with friends)
Weather (colors a square on our weather graph)
Song Leader (chooses a favorite song for us to sing)
Gardener (waters our plant)
Line Leader
Door Holder
Electrician (turns classroom lights off when we leave)
Caboose (very important to make sure everyone is safely in line!)
Recess Helper (can choose toys to take out)
Sweeper (helps keep our floor clean)
We sang a new morning song at circle time- Do You Know My Friend’s Name?- and tried to read each name as it was added to the pocket chart. We will be focusing on identifying the letters in our names and practicing spelling them.
We will be starting Chapel and Music on Wed/Thurs this week. Chapel is at 9:15. Please try to be prompt, so we can get settled and make it to church on time!! lol
Reminder- if you have any plastic spice bottles with shaker lids (with the holes), we’d love to have them to make scent jars!! We will be talking about our 5 Senses and will use them the week of Sept. 23rd.
Happy Birthday to Miss Jennifer!!! We had a great celebration on Friday with lots of beautiful pictures, flowers and some yummy cupcakes! I know that it made her day 🥰
Have a wonderful weekend with your little Ladybug!!