Newsletter: October 2024 Dr. Maria Montessori’s Quote: “Do not tell them how to do it. · The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.” Important Dates: Parent/Teacher Conference Blossoms Classroom Tuesday October 22- Friday October 25 Sprouts Classroom: Monday October 28- Wednesday October 30 You will be offered the chance to sign up for a 20-minute conference time to discuss your children progress one on one with the teachers. Please use The Doodle sign up link to reserve a spot for your conference time. The specific Doodle link will be sent to each classroom. The Zoom link for the conference will be sent the week prior to the conferences on October 18th 2024. Birthday Wishes to Angaad Thagad turning three years old and Emma Naumov on turning four years in October.
Message from the Director: Some common topics related to young children’s language, self-control, communication will be covered monthly. This month’s topic is: Guiding your child’s behavior: Children are exploring new things in their world. Their feelings are some of the new sensations they are exploring. Here are some suggestions for helping your child learn to control their strong emotions and behaviors. Remember, your child is learning what to do at this age, with your help and guidance, they will develop the ability to control behavior’s as they get older. What to do Why do it Read your child’s cues to know when hungry, tired, sick or We overstimulated. Children have less control of their behavior when they don’t feel well or rested. You can prevent upsetting behavior by meeting their needs before the behavior is out of control. Take time to give undivided attention several times a day, especially when you sense getting out of control. Your love and attention will help feel important and want to please you. Good discipline begins with a good relationship. Put away objects that are off limits. Make their space safe. Limit tempting situations. While they are learning to do this, help by removing as many “no-no’s” as you can. Set a few limits for her behavior and enforce then consistently. The world can be confusing place for children. Carefully use a few rules and enforce them the same way all the time. As children learn what to do, you can add limits a few at a time. Talk to other people who care for your child and coordinate what you do. Consistency of the rules is key. It is easier for a child to learn limits and understand consequences if they are the same when with care providers. To be continued next month. We thank you for entrusting your beautiful children in our care. October Curriculum Highlights: The children have been introduced to The beautiful season of fall brings shades of brown, red and yellow in our environment. It is a great transition in our curriculum from the study of colors to fall colors shapes of leaves. The exercises of Practical Life with bring many fallen leaves and other acorns for pouring and spooning. Many different size pumpkins, gourds and squash will be presented to wash, scrub and cut open. We will wash the pumpkin seeds, roast, and taste them. We taste different ways to use pumpkin next month (November). Children had a blast exploring colors. They made guesses on what colors when mixed make a new color and how to make brown and black they had to mix all three primary colors. Children noticed colors all around them, in nature and man-made. Manipulatives: Children will enjoy working with many puzzles, connecting, and linking works, building with blocks, and stacking. Language: The letter sound of “h and j” will be introduced. Mathematics: We will count with small pumpkins, introduce estimation, diameter, and circumference to measure the pumpkin. Sciences: learn the parts of a pumpkin, trace and label them. They are observing a yellow onion, green onion and yam in water and journaling how they are starting to sprout just by being in water. Keeping celery in three different colored water and observing how it is absorbing colored water, it is showing on the top. NOTE: Music Program in Blossoms Classrom We will continue to offer music in our Montessori environment. • We have introduced “treble clef’, the symbol and “The stave or staff” A set of five horizontal lines and four spaces, where each line and space represents a different musical note. • Treble clef A symbol placed at the beginning of the staff to indicate the pitch of each line. The treble clef is also known as the G clef because it wraps around the G line Each line of the staff represents a specific pitch. Starting from the bottom of the treble clef staff, the lines represent E, G, B, D and F. sounds with the rhythm sticks, jingle bells, and shakers to explore dynamics and rhythm. We will sing a song, We Tap our Sticks, and practice alternating between playing and resting our instruments. We will explore the fall season through music by singing songs about apples, pumpkins, and autumn leaves. We will be dancing with scarves to explore the movements of falling leaves such as twirling, floating, and drifting. Through creative movement activities the children will experience the joy of collective movement and express the mood of the music. The older children will also learn songs about autumn’s beauty and the gifts of the season like, The Leaves Are Red And Yellow In The Fall and Shake The Apple Tree. Through expressive movements the students will create and perform a musical story about falling leaves. They will learn about the musical concept, “high-low” by using a variety of melodic instruments such as the recorder and the glockenspiel. We will also explore high and low sounds we create with our singing voice by matching higher and lower pitches. We will play the ascending and descending music scale on the keyboard and the tone bars.
