Yellow {FOUR} {Oo} Week

Dear Preschool Parents,

Yellow Week was lots of fun, especially when with so many of yellow shirts showing up at school. We spelled yellow while dancing, swirling and singing and named lots of yellow things.The children also learned the #4 poem. We introduced the letter O and circles. We learned the sound that letter O makes and found lots of O words; octopus, Ollie, olives, owl.

YELLOW SONG (If you're happy and you know it tune)

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

Like the early morning sun

When the day has just begun.

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

Daffodils and baby ducks are yellow. 

Lemonade and scrambled eggs are yellow.

I like the smiley face that's yellow,

he is such a happy fellow.

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

The children colored an octopus yellow and glued Fruit Loop O's on all the arms. Mason and Rustin were working hard to pull a few of their O's apart before gluing them on. Rustin said, "The struggle is REAL!" Ha! Mrs. Walters and Miss Julie laughed and laughed. They also said Nash colored his particularly nice and dark. Great job, Nash!

Mrs. Walters read the children a great story, "Everybody has a bucket!" What a great story! Ask your children if they know what a dipper is!

Wednesday, the children made octopus puppets and Mrs. Walter told the children she was going to name her octopus, Ollie. She pretended to have Ollie munch olives! Then, she asked the children what they were going to name their octopus. Madden said, "I'm naming mine, Bloodgrog!" Trig said, "Bladecrack!" Dani said, "Joe Moe!" Allison said, "Emoji!" Navy E. said, "Cupcake!" Mason named his "Taco Bell because he likes to get burritos there. Mrs. Walters later said, "Madden, keep coloring Bloodgrog pretty yellow!" Madden said, "He's NOT pretty!" Ha! Mrs. Walter talked about using coloring muscles. "Are you getting strong coloring muscles like Captain America?" "Like Iron Man?" Ryder said, "I have normal coloring muscles!" 

At recess, the children were pretending to gas up to run faster. Lilly said, "My gas is all blowed out!" Ha!

Thursday, the children all made owl pictures. Sooo cute!

I am happy to announce that I am coming home later this week. My husband got an early release and we are thrilled with his progress. Much thanks to all who have been so supportive and helpful during this time in our lives. Especially, I wanted to thank Gracia's family for volunteering to take care of my yard. I heard all of her children wanted to help. That means so much to me. Maximus, Rockwell, Steele, Francesca and now Gracia have all been my students. They are so dear to me. I see Ken at the temple nearly every week and adore Amberlee. Thank you so much. So sweet! Thank you!

I am excited to see everyone again and sleep in my own bed!

Next week is Black Week. Wear Black!!!

Much, much love,

Gail McClure