Hello first grade families!

Thank you to all who joined us for our first parent night last Friday. The kids love exploring sensory play, and we try to give them as many opportunities as possible! 

 These last few weeks have been very exciting. We covered “Ocean” week by making shark teeth out of clay and water density jellyfish! After “Ocean” week, we took a turn to “Reptiles and Amphibians”. We talked about what makes them different, some of their adaptations, and even got to see a real life frog that Natsu brought in! This week we are doing some creepy crafts! We started our week with our "Pumpkin Jack" rotting pumpkin experiment. The children will get to watch a sugar pumpkin decompose (in a sealed jar) for the remainder of the school year.  We are very excited to see how it decomposes and hope to see some new life grow in the spring. We will continue to make puffy ghosts, creepy carrots and more! 

We have also introduced a new part of our schedule to the children, "Quiet Time". Our quiet time was designed and implemented into our schedule to give children who have (or eventually may have) homework and opportunity to complete it at LEDP. So far, the children have been practicing quiet time activities by either silently reading stories, working in a personal journal, or completing a coloring/ worksheet. 

As we move into the chillier months, the teachers will be watching the weather for opportunities for your children to still be outside for portions of our afterschool day. Please make sure your child has all of the clothing necessary to feel cozy and comfortable in the upcoming weather! 

Hello First Grade LEDP Families! 

We had a very exciting first two weeks of October! We ran with our “Colors” theme and presented a variety of activities such as: primary color play dough, glue window clings and making our own “Dot” inspired by the story “The Dot” written by Peter Reynolds. Following “Color” week, we jumped into a “Prehistoric” theme. This week consisted of fossil sand slime, dinosaur bone art and create your own dinosaurs! When we are not in the classroom, we have been trying to spend as much time outside as possible. The weather, although cooling down, has been very cooperative and we plan on taking advantage of the outside as much as possible. 

A few reminders, if your child will have a different pick up then intended, please contact Mary to confirm any changes. 

We are also very excited to hold our 1st of 3 LEDP open houses! Our open house will be October 25th, and our theme will be sensory activities. Picture it, slime, play dough, water beads, oh my!

Come join us for some fun play and good conversations!

Hello LEDP first grade families! We were so excited to start a brand new year with your children. Our team consists of 1st grade coordinator Janette, with teachers Natsu and Henry. We have been loving getting to know you and your kiddos! This year, the first grade team is following  weekly themes in the afterschool classroom. Our first weekly theme was “Getting To Know You”. We made self portraits, decorated mini cakes for our birthday board and played a lot of get to know you games. Our 2nd week's theme was “Food”. We made milkshake crafts on national milkshake day, clay creations of our favorite food and even painted our dream doughnut. Our third week was all about “The 5 Senses”. We played sound guessing games, made slime, tested different fruit smells, got introduced to some silly vision glasses and tasted 5 different kinds of apples! Our 4th theme was all about welcoming our new “Fall Season”. The kids made leaf people, used legos to make a corn craft and even made fall scented play dough. The teaching team is very excited to work with your kids throughout this school year! Interested in a  seek peek for our next two weeks? We are hoping to cover "Color Theory" and "Prehistoric Times" in the weeks to come.

A few heads up as we move forward ...

We are big fans of sensory/ touch play and we hope to make a variety of projects such as homemade playdough, slime and oobleck. We intend to send these projects home with the children so the fun can continue later on. If taking these projects home becomes an issue, please let one of the teachers know and we will not send it back with the children!

At  pick up time we ask that all students  and parents “check out” with their teacher before leaving so we can have double assurance that your child is leaving safely. 

Some of the books we have read…

Stellaluna 

The Snatchabook

Little Grunt and the Dinosaur 

Streganona 

The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissor

Fly Guy 

And many more…

We look forward to an amazing year in LEDP!