Dr. Maria’s Quote: “Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child open up himself to life”
Important Dates:
Father’s Day Sunday June 18.
Wishing all the fathers: Happy Father’s Day!
Summer solstice: Wednesday June 21, 2023!
School closed Friday June 30, Monday, July 3 and Tuesday July 4 in observance of Independence Day.
Birthday Wishes to Ruby on turning five years old on June 28th.
Curriculum: The children saw the life cycle of the Lady Bug, Butterfly and the Praying Mantis in class and exited realized them in nature.
In the month of June, we will continue to enhance our curriculum on the farm unit. The children will be learning about the Horse’s body parts and singing songs. They will learn about many facts about the farm animals and their “animal Kingdom- mammals”, their characteristics.
We will introduced the Food Unit with emphasizes on the Food Pyramid and the food chain( 4-6 year old’s). We will tie this study with the Continent study. The children are showing immense interest in foods from many cultures.
We are starting to taste foods from all categories: Grains, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and fats etc. Children are playing games with these vocabulary terms to become familiar with them. They are practicing the letter sounds with food names from A-Z. Children are also doing many other activities with food items like, counting with fruits, making fractions, scrubbing them clean, squeezing and making lemonade, cutting, and painting them. We will sprout moong beans in class to taste. The older children will journal their daily observations to record how many days it would take for the moong beans to sprout.
In Math, they are learning about “odd and even numbers” and they are practicing using the new learnt facts in their everyday activities.
In Language: The letter family “c, i, r, p” have been reintroduced.
Children will be planting multicolored zinnia flower seeds in pots to bring home.
Note from Carmen, the Music Teacher:
In June the younger children will explore the ocean and its
habitats through music. This unit is the favorite of many
children and it is a perfect summer theme. We will sing
songs about sharks, fish, and hermit crabs, Where can the
Hermit Crab be. We will also explore the ocean drum and
listen to Camille Saint-Saëns’s musical composition,
Aquarium, and we will imitate a school of fish to move
along with the music.
The older children will also take a musical journey to
the ocean. We will sing songs about the many different
ocean animals including the children’s favorites. We
will listen to excerpts from the orchestral composition
La Mer (The Sea) by Claude Debussy and Benjamin
Britten’s Four Sea Interludes and compare the different
ways each composer evokes the ocean in their music.
We will create ocean waves to match the gentle and
slow beat of the music to imitate a peaceful ocean. We
will sing songs, like Down by the Bay and Seashell Sing a
Song. We will learn about ways ways people created
instruments out of shells and plants of the ocean.
Thank you for entrusting your beautiful children in our care.