We’ll have two music groups on Thursday mornings. Our first session was a great success and we are looking forward to learning more fingerplays, songs and dances in our second session.

For more information, please visit the Music page.

Thank you!

Rebecca

to me! We had such a fun day in class, I wanted to write about a few things we did:

• We read Stellaluna — my favorite storybook about fruit bats.
• We pretended we were bats and did a Yoga pose called The Bat.
• We played a Brown Bat game, where we each took turns wearing a blindfold,”flying” around the dark bat cave, and seeing if we could recognize whoever we bumped into first.
• We made a spiderweb with yellow crayon and washed the paper with black watercolor. The crayon web resisted the wash and came shimmering through the paint.

I also received many cards and some great presents. Thanks everyone, for making my day so special!

Cheers,

Rebecca

Not as many quality books in this catalog as in the others, but here are my top picks:

40. I spy a pumpkin, great for visual discrimination skills.

28. Fancy Nancy, one of my daughter’s favorite series.

49 and 50.A kiss goodbye, from the author of the beloved book, The Kissing  Hand.

51. Knuffle bunny too, an award winner.

62. Midnight Fright (tell time book)

87. Skippyjonjones (love the wacky Spanish humor and play on words, but not for everyone, I’m sure)

35. Henry and Mudge (LOVE Cynthia Rylant and this is a great series for beginning readers ready for simple chapter books)

66. Nate the great books are also good for 2nd grade level chapter books.

10. Biscuit pack is another good one for early readers, but it’s easier than Henry and Mudge.

63. Money skills and The coin counting book (money skills)

Everything in the Science and Nature section looks good — 95. weather station, 17. dinosaur kit, science vocab, 92. Usborne awesome animals, etc.

55. Let’s go apple picking, looks cute.

See the Scholastic page for ordering link and details,

Rebecca

Firefly is for pre-K children. Here are my picks:

9. Big book of the human body. Fun for those science loving kids out there.

11. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. My all time favorite ABC book!!

14. Cookie’s Week. Funny book about a naughty kitten that is very easy and patterned for beginning readers.

15. Corduroy. A children’s classic for $1.

16. Eric Carle pack. A great author/illustrator.

17. Fall Pattern Cards and Counters. These are great math manipulatives.

21. 5 Green and Speckled Frogs. Book of the popular children’s song for $1.

22. Five ugly monsters. Tedd Arnold is one of my favorite authors, although this is one of his more basic stories and is just a board book.

31. Happy Halloween, Stinky Face.  I love Lisa McCourt’s book,”I love you stinky face” and am hoping this will be equally as good.

37-39. I spy books, which are good for developing visual discrimination.

64. The shape of things. A fun book that plays with shapes.

72. Stellaluna. A super sweet story that also teaches about fruit bats, birds and friendship.

84. We are all special pack. Great stories about diversity.

87. You read to me, I’ll read to you, very short fairy tales. I’ve heard of this one and would like to check it out.

For some reason, you can’t order from this catalog online, so you’ll have to give your order to me.

Thanks and happy shopping,

Rebecca

This catalog is for toddlers to age 4. Here are some of my favorite books and authors that are on sale:

20. Eric Carle set. An award-winning author/illustrator.

21. Fall fun lace and trace. A good activity for fine motor skills/early sewing.

24. Family favorites library. Great prices for 8 great books.

29. Getting along set. These are all sweet stories.

34.If you give a … books. Sweet stories that follow the “logical progression” that happens when you give a mouse a cookie, etc.

36. Itsy Bitsy spider.  A new take on an old favorite.

38. Kitten’s First full moon. This book has the most amazing black and white artwork and charming story about a thirsty kitten who wants to drink the moon.

40. Leo Lionni duo. Love his books!

47. Make way for ducklings is a children’s classic.

65. Starting school set, with Chrysanthemum and Froggy goes to school. Both are about adjusting to school life.

For some reason, this catalog is not available online so the orders have to come directly to me.

Rebecca

Saturday, September 27 is Museum Day, an event sponsored by Smithsonian Magazine. All over the country, hundreds of museums will open their doors to visitors who print and bring along this page:
http://microsite.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/admission.html
Participating in our area are:
Erie Canal Discovery Center, Lockport;

Genesee Country Village & Museum, Mumford;

George Eastman House, Rochester;

Holland Land Office Museum, Batavia;

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester;

National Memorial Day Museum, Waterloo;

Oliver House and L. Caroline Underwood Museums, Penn Yan;

Seneca Falls Historical Society, Seneca Falls; Seward House, Auburn;

The Col. Wm. Bond-Jesse Hawley House, Lockport; The History Center, Lockport;

The Landmark Society’s Stone-Tolan House Museum, Rochester.

We are planning to go to the Genesee Country Village and Museum. Maybe we’ll see you there!

Rebecca

Here is my order for the Lucky catalog:

I have these ones, but in case you don’t, you might be interested in:

24. Dragon of the red dawn, We love the Magic Tree House books!

52. The whole pack of Magic Tree house books for a great price.

35 and 36, we love Henry and Mudge.

44. Jake Drake pack, Andrew Clements is a very popular author for 4th and 5th graders.

74. Ramona friends and family pack. Beverly Cleary’s Ramona books are quintessential childhood reading.

25. E.B. White Treasury. Arianna adores these classic books.

65. Patricia Polacco Pack, another fabulous author.

63. Our Solar System. Seymour Simon is an amazing photographer and has some excellent science books for children.

Pretty good prices for some of my daughter’s faves!
To order online, go to the Web site below and enter our class’s personalized user name and password.

www.scholastic.com/parentordering

Class User Name: rebeccawolf
Password: books

Remember, placing your online order is completely safe and secure.  Your credit card payment is sent directly to Scholastic.

When you shop online, you can take advantage of exclusive online-only offers and choose from an expanded selection of books and software. Of course, you can always use the printed flyer instead and have your child hand in a Club order form and payment at school.

Thank you again for ordering and for continuing to help our classroom earn FREE books, software and learning materials. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,
Rebecca

We do not currently offer financial aid, but you may have a special skill that we need and could barter for. If you are interested, please check out our “Wish List” page or give us a call.

If you have gently used preschool items, please check our “Wish List”. We might be able to give your items a great, new home where children will continue to use and cherish them!

Blessings,

Rebecca Wolf

We are having an Open House on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 for parents of prospective students. Come over and join the fun!

Our first Open House will be at 9:30 a.m. for parents of 3 and 4 year olds. Our second one will be at 10:30 a.m. for parents of 5 and 6 year olds. Registration forms will be available so you can sign up for our few remaining spots.

If you are wondering about all of the good learning fun we do here, now is your chance to take a sneak peek! Plans are also in the works for a Teleconference on “The Importance of Play” in the next few weeks. If you have a scheduling request, be sure to let me know as soon as possible.

Please leave a comment or give me a call at 935-7131 to sign up for our Open House.

Hope to see you there,

Rebecca Wolf

Fall is almost here and we have a great line up for Spanish classes for ages 4-6. You can kick off the fall semester with a week long intensive Spanish camp in Penfield. Then, we will commence our weekly classes on September 9th. Classes will be at 10:00 on Tuesdays here at the Sibley Learning Center.

The format for classes will be full immersion, meaning our teacher, Josefina, will only speak in Spanish. Both students and parents will be expected to greet Josefina (and each other) in Spanish upon arrival. We will also have a regular calendar activity to reinforce numbers, days of the week and weather words, in addition to Josefina’s well-loved art activities. We are purposefully making classes more challenging and expecting the children to speak and understand even more Spanish. The monthly charge will be $40.

And for the adults, we will be forming a Spanish Lunch to meet once a week to practice conversational Spanish. If you are interested in participating, please let me know about your availability so we can begin as soon as possible. There will be a small charge for this.