A few daily schedule changes

Parents of the Red Room:  We have made a few changes in our day that we wanted to share with you.  We are picking jobs on Monday and Tuesday mornings for our part-time students and your child will have the same job for the week.  We thought that it might be better for them to do the job for the entire week so they can work on doing it independently as they learn how it’s done.  We also changed gym/playground and music time and that has been very successful.

8:30 In class – We gather in our classroom, talk, and put away our belongings.

Bathroom – We have a bathroom break.

AM Choice- The children can play until morning welcome. On Monday/Tuesday the children pick their job for the week.

Clean up-When all the children have been to the bathroom we clean up play area.

8:50 Morning                Welcome- We gather on the carpet, sitting on the floor, and we do the Welcome Song and give hugs for those what want them.

9:00 Breakfast-We go up to the cafeteria for breakfast.

9:30 Gym/Playground- We play in the gym/playground or the sensory room.

Circle –We go to the carpet with our chairs and get ready for circle time.  We start off the year with a short 5 minute circle and we’ll gradually increase that as the year progresses.   I write a morning message that we all read together, we do our calendar and we’re graphing the weather each month, and we read a book.

Bathroom –We have a bathroom break.

Center Time-We have several centers available and the children can move freely from one to another.  Our centers include playing in the play area, art, computer, sensory table, puzzles, cooking, and working individually or in a small group with one of us.

Clean-up-We all clean-up the play area.

11:30 Music-We have music in the circle area on the carpet.  We wash our hands before lunch.

12:00  Lunch-We have lunch in the cafeteria

Red Room-We come down to our room and have a relaxing time with a video that one of our students chose for the day.  As the children are watching it with a stuffed animal if they so chose, we pull them out to brush their teeth and go to the bathroom.

1:00 Nap-Some children take a nap at this time.  Our non-nappers do a variety of activities such as go to our school library where we have books, a puppet theater, and games, go to the playground, sensory room or we do a group activity in our classroom.

Bathroom-We have a bathroom break.

2:00 Snack –We have a snack at our table in the classroom.

2:30 Home-After snack we sing a goodbye song and dismiss for the day.

Circle S Farms Field Trip on Thursday, October 6, 2011

Brooks-Yates School Field Trip

Circle S Farms

Thursday, October 6, 2011

We will be spending the day at Circle S Farms.  They offer: hayrides, a pumpkin, a fun barn, a corn maze, a sunflower maze, a petting zoo, a scarecrow bale cave, and a donut and apple juice for each of our students.  The cost of the trip is $6.50 which includes all of the above. We will leave the school at 9 in the morning and return at 2 in the afternoon.  We won’t be here for breakfast so please make sure your child has breakfast before they leave that morning.  Please pack a totally disposable lunch that we will eat at Circle S Farms.  If you want to see what Circle S Farms is all about in Grove City you can visit their website at circlesfarm.com or call 614.878.7980?.

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