WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 12-16,2016

1. Nursery rhymes are the perfect first stories.Toddlers are ready to listen to a story without grabbing the book or tearing the pages, but they might not be ready for a long story.  Books of nursery rhymes are a great transition to longer books because you can read as many or as few rhymes as your toddler prefers. 

2. Nursery rhymes can boost early language development.

3. Knowing nursery rhymes can build social skills and promote a sense of community.Children bond over a shared story, and when you have  a classroom (or houseful) or children who know the same rhymes, they have fun reciting and singing together.

4. Loving nursery rhymes opens the door to a love of all books.

5. Kids who know nursery rhymes are equipped to be better readers.Listening to nursery rhymes strengthens kids’ ability to hear the sounds in words. 

6. Listening to nursery rhymes builds vocabulary.The more stories and rhymes kids hear, the larger their vocabulary.  A strong vocabulary improves listening comprehension, social conversations, writing, and more! 

7. A love for nursery rhymes opens the door to creativity.Act out rhymes, create nursery rhyme crafts, illustrate favorite rhymes, and write your own.  Plus, listening to rhymes without pictures lets your child create mental images in his head. (This ability will come in handy when he starts reading chapter books!)

8. Nursery rhymes connect us to the past.Don’t you love reading a favorite picture book from your childhood to your own kids?  When you share nursery rhymes that you knew as a child, you can have that same joy.

9. Singing nursery rhymes can improve fine motor skills and coordination.When children do finger plays (think “Itsy Bitsy Spider”) and act out other rhymes (like “Jack Jumped Over a Candlestick”), they can even improve muscle strength!

10. Nursery rhymes are just plain fun.Silly rhymes and nonsensical verse are appealing to kids.

Article from The Measured Mom

Dear Parents,

This will be a short week!
  There will be NO SCHOOL Thursday September 15^th or Friday September 16^th.We will be celebrating Independence Day.

On Wednesday we will be celebrating Honduras Independence Day! We will begin our morning with a traditional Honduran breakfast. Then, we will go up to the auditorium for an assembly. Nursery will be part of the assembly and they will be singing a song. 
 After the assembly the students will play traditional Honduran games. Children can come dress with the ''traje tipico'' or with a Honduras shirt.





 Parents are invited to come to the assembly and also to join us during the traditional games.

Midterm Reports will be sent home on Wednesday. Please look them over, sign and return them on Monday the 19^th. If you would like a conference, and one was not requested, please contact me  to set up an appointment.

This week we will be reviewing the colors we have been learning with their corresponding vocabulary.




We will be reading books from the author Laura Numeroff

''If You Give a Pig a Pancake''

''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie''

''If You Give a Moose a Muffin''

Nursery Rhymes:

''The More We Get Together''

''Apples and Bananas''

Have a wonderful holiday!