June Newsletter and Lesson Plan

I always keep forgetting to add the monthly newsletter and my lesson plan to this blog. So here it is:

Baby Bears

June, 2014

Dear Families,

June is here already, and we have a very busy month ahead of us! Happy Father's Day to all of you wonderful dads! We will be busy making you some gifts! Please welcome Miss Beth, who has joined our room. Her hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The kids just adore her! I will be gone June 18^th through June 25^th, my little sister is getting married. Miss Beth will be taking over while I am away. Just a reminder, please bring a sunhat for your little one, as it is quite sunny outside. Please welcome 2 new toddlers, Kai and Madison, to our classroom!

We plan to have water play on Wednesdays. Please provide him/her with a pair of water shoes or other non-slip shoes to wear that can safely get wet and muddy. We sometimes do sprinkler play, but they get very dirty even just splashing and pouring at the water table. Our themes for this month include, Father’s Day, Transportation, Sports, Camping.

This month we will be painting with edible paints. We will get to explore blue and red pudding paint to make purple. We will also explore sticky things this month, including jelly. We have lots of animal stickers to explore. We will be focusing on scribbling with markers, crayons and colored pencils.  We will work on grasping them and trying to make marks on paper. Of course we have scheduled lots of cute hand and footprint crafts for our families!

We will be working on our fine and gross motor skills this month.  When it comes to using gross motor skills — things like walking, jumping, and running — your little baby bear probably doesn't need much encouragement. But it's equally important that kids work on their fine motor skills — small, precise thumb, finger, hand, and wrist movements — because they support a host of other vital physical and mental skills. We will be “filling up and dumping”, “dressing and undressing”, “scribbling”, “stacking and sorting” and “poking and pinching”.

I’d like to take a moment and talk with you about how we have Circle Time with our toddlers. It isn’t always the easiest time of day.  Toddlers are busy, so we use it to transition to the next activity. Miss Beth is introducing us to some new songs that the toddlers really seem to enjoy. We currently begin by singing our welcome song using your child’s name, followed by the ABC’s, and other movement songs.

Stay Cool!

Miss Becky

Please check out my blog. It contains the activities we have enjoyed doing, art projects and recipes!

http://www.cookingandcuddling.blogspot.com/

Baby Bears Toddler Lesson Plan

Week of: June 2^nd through June 6th                                Theme: Transportation 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Music & Movement (Self-Expression, Songs, Instruments-rattles & shakers)	Wheels on the bus finger play	Listening to country music today	Choo, Choo! Train Noises with actions	Making Siren Noises imitating teachers	Bumping up and down in my little red wagon
Literacy & Language (Book titles or language activities)	Reading: Go Dog Go!	Reading: Farm ABC	Reading: Goodnight Train	Reading: Things that go!	Transportation Flash Cards
Gross Motor Indoor & Outdoor (Toddler Games, Physical Coordination)	Chasing hula hoops rolling and spinning in the gym	Riding in cars in the gym	Learning Colors with Outdoor Ball Games	Duct Tape Highways with toy cars	Parachute goes up and down
Fine Motor (Manipulatives)	Scribbling on white board with markers	Making car tracks using paint	Stamping our thumbs to make a train	Red finger painting a stop sign coloring sheet	Putting race car tracks together
Creative Experiences (Art and Sensory experiences)	Boat Hand print And Blowing bubbles	Green Tractor Footprint	Water and soap in sensory table washing our cars	Fire Truck Footprint	Scribbling with crayons and markers on paper