Opposites Week - Newsletter

A Note from the Teacher

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I enjoyed a quiet meal with my husband, Matt. I discovered that cooking a turkey in the slow cooker is very yummy and very easy! It will be a new holiday cooking tradition for me. :-) And now, I’m excited to move on to my favorite holiday season…Christmas!

Don’t forget, our Christmas program is coming up next Monday eve at 7:00 pm. Please let me know if you have any questions.

I hope you all got a copy of our postcard inviting you to send your children dressed in their best “opposites” on Thursday and Friday of this week. The picture of the postcard will give you some ideas. One example would be to wear pants forward and a shirt backward or perhaps one pant leg rolled up and the other down. We’ll be doing opposite type things all week so this will be a fun culmination of all we’ve learned.

If you haven’t gotten your tickets for the Applebees breakfast with Santa, see Maria early this week. Tickets are $5 per person.

Thanks!
Teacher April


This Week in the Sunshine Class

We’ll be filling our week this week with lots of opposites. Big and Little. Up and Down. Day and Night. Etc…

They’ll get a kick out of painting on paper on top of the table and paper attached to the bottom of the table to learn about top and bottom.

When the weather was nice the kids showed a lot of interest in using bubbles outside so I’m hoping to find some big and little “bubble-making” items to learn about big and little.

Last time we played charades it was with animal noises and actions and the kids just loved it. So this week we’re going to try and play opposite charades where the kids act out different opposites. I’ll take pictures of them and I’m thinking we’ll try and make an “opposites memory game” with the photos.

Our art this week will involve painting with big and little sponges, gluing items that are black and white (although I’m not sure black is truly the opposite of white...but it works) :-)!

Oh, we’ll be making a class book about opposites too. They have LOVED the books we’ve made together so far so this will be a great addition. Kids will get a chance to look through magazines for items that match the word. For example…”What’s big?” Then they’ll hunt for pictures of big things to glue to the pages.