Our Five Senses Week - Newsletter

A Note From the Teacher

Well we survived our first week back! :-) I think the kids were pretty tired at the end of each day.

Registration for next year will be here very soon! For already enrolled students, registration begins, Monday, February 4th at 9:30 am. Make sure you register early in order to get the classroom that you would like. Many of you have already been asking our advice regarding the best class for your child. We’re happy to answer those questions to the best of our knowledge but it would also be very helpful for you to meet Teacher Kim, Teacher Mary and Teacher Laurel (afternoon) and to briefly observe their classes in order to get a feel for what to do.

Our Dad and Me breakfast is coming up very soon! Grandpas are welcome to attend as well. I believe we’ll have a sign up sheet as time gets closer just so we have any idea of how much food to make. After eating, dads are welcome to go with their child to visit their classroom.

-Teacher April


This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we begin two weeks of sensory fun. Of course everything we do in the Sunshine Class uses our five senses, but this week we’ll help kids learn what those senses are and how we use them.

We’re going to make a volcano...always a favorite! We’ll see the bubbles, smell the vinegar, touch the supplies as we put it together, hear the sizzle of the baking soda and vinegar combining and hopefully, we’ll leave the sense of taste out of this one! :-)

We’re going to finger paint with shaving cream and paint, make our own eye-glasses and paint with scented paint (koolaid). The koolaid paint is supposed to create a scratch and sniff sort of project. We’ll see! :-) Oh, I have scented markers for us to sort between them and the non-scented type, plus we’ll draw with them.

We’ll find out what it might like to try and walk around without the sense of sight and we’ll use our ears to hear the sound of our working feet while we exercise our bodies in silence.
We’re going to smell a variety of things and talk about what we like and dislike.

And we’re going to be tasting cookies and seeing how we like to eat an oreo...to twist or not! :-)
I’ll be sending home a “cookie questionnaire” for you to do at home and return. Just fill it out with the names of family members and then have your child make smiley faces or sad faces for whether or not that family member likes or dislikes the listed cookie flavor. We’d like to have them back by Wed/Thurs so we can talk about them before the week is over.