At the beginning of every month, you can expect to see different cultural, art, and science materials coming home.  The materials reflect the particular theme and subject matter found in our curriculum.  For instance, we are introducing the concept of “vertebrates” and “invertebrates”  along with mammals in our science area. Jobs on the shelves reflect this curriculum and any of the work coming home is an extension of our monthly themes.

One of the areas that gets a big monthly update is called Practical Life. Currently, this area reflects the fall season and has jobs focused on fall activities such as tweezing plastic spiders out of their web.

The Practical Life area offers students a chance to develop practical skills that help them do things in life like slicing a strawberry and serving sections to a friend, or tweezing and pouring jobs designed to build the coordination and strength in the fingers to correctly grasp a pencil and learn to write comfortably.

Ever wonder what the themes are for the month?  We invite you to look carefully at the calendar your child brings home at the start of the new month.  A small art project (tied to the current theme) is made by the children and attached to the calendar.

You will notice on these calendars that we include monthly themes and also highlight important dates for you to be aware of. These themes may give you discussion topics with your child, or enrich their new found knowledge with your experience.  The year long curriculum can be found in the parent information packet we distributed earlier in September at parent orientation.  

Every week, Ms. Angela centers her art class around reading a book then doing a piece of art about the subject of the book.  A few weeks ago, she read “The Colors of Us” and provided our students with a template of blank faces, which they could fill in with any expression they wanted.  Then they dipped their finger into three separate spices, cumin, coco and turmeric, giving their faces a particular skin tone and color.

The scholastic book fair was a big success and we appreciate the generosity of our families who donated books to our classroom.  THANK YOU!!

We also appreciate the time, effort, and donations made to the PTO to create a wonderful Fall Festival.  It is the support and involvement of our FMS parents that makes a huge difference in the overall student experience at FMS.  We appreciate your involvement!

A big thanks to our parents who chaperoned our first, Kindergarten field trip to the fire station down the street.

REMINDERS:

The PTO Fall Festival is on Friday, 10/20 from 5:00pm-8:00pm. Come and enjoy the lovely weather, games, music, and food with the whole FMS community.  We are looking forward to seeing all of you there!

International Children’s Day is on Wednesday, 10/25.  Your child may dress in the traditional dress of any culture in the world.  They will enjoy an “excursion” through several classrooms, with each room hosting a different country or continent.  An all school parade will commence around 11:00am (parents are invited) and students will be dismissed at 11:15am.

No school on 10/26 due to teacher in-service.

No school on 10/27 in observance of Nevada Day.

THANKS:

Thanks to Alex, Jonny, and their families for supplying healthy and beautiful snacks, as well as flowers for our classroom.