Sunday, October 4, 2009

Hello Galaxy Room Families! This week we are 'blasting off' into our space unit!! We will be studying the solar system and all that it consists of. We will also begin our study of Vincent Van Gogh and Sebastian Bach. We will review the letter sound 'Tt'. Everyone may plan to bring an item from home beginning with the 't' sound and present it to the class on Friday. At home, you could reinforce these things by: taking a moment to look up at the stars, moon, etc. and just open up discussion about space; look up some of Van Gogh's works of art on line; listen to some of Bach's music; create your very own 't' collage from magazines and such; create a letter t on dark paper with glue, then salt on top. If you don't have time for any of these, be sure to talk about these topics in the car and try to find out what they've learned. All students may not open up at first, but keep asking, and eventually they will tell! Remember, if it is important to you, it will be important to them. Also, we've been learning to dance to music with our rhythym sticks. Ask your child to demonstrate rhythym sticks with their 'pretend rhythym sticks' (fingers) and teach you some of the songs!!