Veterans Day Chapel

A special thank you to all our veterans

Thank you for serving our beautiful country. I am thrilled that we had parents and grandparents join us today.

Leaf Rubbings

The students loved using the crayons to create la leaf masterpiece. This activity allowed your preschooler to explore the texture of leaves. Fine motor skills were strengthened as the children pinched the crayon.

Letter O is for OSTRACIZE

Abiyoyo

One of our books from the tree unit its ABIYOYO. We took a trip to South Africa this week and we learned about a giant named Abiyoyo. The father and his son are ostracized from the town.

Vocabulary words - ukulele, disappear

Jumping Beans - Objective 16 Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet

This activity helps with letter recognition. Each child had to pull out a coffee bean and tell the class if it was a letter or a jumping bean. Everyone jumped when a jumping bean was taken out.

The Fall Fashion Show

Benefits of our show - Builds self -confidence , overcomes fears of public speaking, develops skills in memory, promotes self-expression

Fall Hay Ride

Literacy in Action

The 7th and 8th grade students wrote , illustrated and read a book to each primary student. Our older students share their talents with our younger students. St. James students learn at an early age to care for others.

Say It, Show It - Obj. 20 Uses number concepts and operations

Your child had to recognize the number on the card and perform a simple motion to demonstrate their knowledge of the quantity that it represents.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

We had a blast with a great book from the clothing unit! A special thank you to Mrs Lisa Norton for acting as grandmother and to Hazel Burkes for playing the part of Red Riding Hood. Mrs. Lisa is retired from St. James and Hazel is a student at St.James. This dramatic presentation helped your child with language skills, vocabulary, comprehension and expression

THE GIRL WHO WORE TOO MUCH

This week we took a trip to Thailand to learn about a little girl named Ari. Ari wants to wear every dress she has to a dance. Ari misses the dance because the clothes are too heavy. She learns to be happy with less. After I read the story it was time to pretend to be Ari. We had a wonderful time with this activity!

OBJ. 16 DEMONSTRATES KNOWLEDGE OF THE ALPHABET - SHAVING CREAM LETTERS

The students made letters with shaving cream. The extra stimulation of shaving cream can help a child understand the idea of the shape of a letter.

Mrs. Cristen showed us how to crochet.

A special thank you to Mrs. Cristen for making every child a necklace. The necklace has the first letter of your child's name on it. The students learned that some clothes are crocheted

Mrs. Diane

As we study clothes, we will learn concepts and skills in literacy, math, science, social studies , and the arts. We will use thinking skills to investigate, ask questions , solve problems, make predictions , and test our ideas.

FireSafety

911

The children loved looking at the large truck and learning about fire safety. Our firemen were wonderful! Our special thanks to Ethan, Jimmy and Cole for giving us a WOW moment to kick off the clothing unit..

This week we learned how to take care of our clothes. Our clothes become dirty and they must be washed. The children used liquid, power and bar soap to find out which soap created more bubbles. After our experiment we determined that the liquid soap created more bubbles.

Goldilocks

The children were amazed to see Goldilocks on our playground. I used Goldilocks to help the children understand the concept of large, medium and small.

TheThreeBears-Large,Medium,Small

ORDER BY SIZE

Young children practice spatial reasoning by size by ordering objects from largest to smallest.This helps them with a range of activities from building more solid block towers to writing their name. Ordering by size also prepares children for more complex math such as putting numbers in order (1,2,3) and problem solving. During this activity your child had to put the bears in order from largest to smallest. After we used our plastic bears it was time to cut and glue in order from largest to smallest.

Mrs. Diane