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September 1, 2025
- 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM<p>School is closed for students and teachers to spend the day with their family and friends celebrating Labor Day. </p>
September 2, 2025
- 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM<p>Let's Go to School & Jump in the air and shout Hooray! Discover Goddard’s power of play. Follow the leader – hey, walk this way. You’ll learn that’s Goddard’s power of play!</p>
September 3, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>The children will learn about themselves as they explore and interact with materials, friends and teachers. This information is important for your child because it promotes self-awareness, fine and gross motor development, and mental wellbeing.</p>
September 4, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>This week children are engaging with the inquiry question “who am I?” through literature, music, mathematics and practicing routines to make connections between themselves and the world around them. We will read Like Myself* by Karen Beaumont. We'll sing, "Here Today."</p>
September 5, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll add baby dolls and items for baby care/home play such as blankets, bottles, utensils, etc. Ask questions to prompt their imaginative play. Is your baby going somewhere today? How will you get there? What do you need to bring?</p>
September 8, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll use soft balls and bean bags inside to explore our throwing skills. We'll attempt to throw them into different size containers that are spread out at different distances. </p>
September 9, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Bring in a Baby Picture to share with your friends. Learning to talk in front of our friends prepares us for public speaking in the future. We will notice how much we changed and talk about how we are different. We'll use it in a family collage to hang in our classroom.</p>
September 10, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Bring in a Family Photo for an art project, a collage of our family and us a baby. We'll make a family tree to show who is in our family. We'll talk about how families are all different shapes & sizes and that each family is just right for those family members.</p>
September 11, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Children will explore the block area with the addition of a few accessories or props such as street signs, figurines and transportation vehicles for children to incorporate into their play; How will your figurines/vehicles move? How do you know when to stop and go?</p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Pizza Day is fun as we have pizza delivered and have a family style meal with our friends. We practice our good manner skills using our Goddard Guide to Getting Along curriculum. Learning to wait patiently and to say "please" and "thank you" is such important life skills.</p>
September 12, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Grass, water, sticks, & sand in containers with illustrations from Going on a Bear Hunt were explored to answer: “Which would you like to walk through the most? Which would be challenging? What would you need to go through the water?</p>
September 15, 2025
- 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM<p>Wear your polka dots to school to celebrate International Dot Day. We'll use watercolor paint & brushes to create dots. We'll peel and use dot stickers to decorate a bag. We'll explore the loss parts sensory table with lids of all colors that look just like dots.</p>
September 16, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll sing "We’re Going on a Bear Hunt" in call-and-response form. When encountering an obstacle, we'll act out how to get through it. The use of onomatopoeia in the story invites children to develop their language skills.</p>
September 17, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>The Teacher will whisper the words that rhyme in the poem “Hey Diddle Diddle.” “Why do you think I whispered these words?” We'll practice noticing rhyming words by whispering, clapping, or jumping when the rhyming words are said as the poem is read aloud.</p>
September 18, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Ahoy, mateys! "Arg" ye ready to Talk & Dress Like a Pirate? We'll learn nautical terms like aft, bow, port, starboard, leeward, boom, & rudder. We'll use our imaginations to pretend that the climber on our playground is our private pirate ship and we'll sail away.</p>
September 19, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:55 PM<p>Outdoor play encompasses all different types of play, including gross motor, messy and creative play, play with manipulates or loose parts and dramatic play.</p>
September 22, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>The fall equinox begins so we will study what signs we should look for as summer says goodbye until next year. We will make a collage of nature items that we gather from the ground. We'll play in our science center, investigating the signs of fall using magnifying glasses.</p>
September 23, 2025
- 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM<p>Wear Apple Red or Green for fun & math! We'll graph which friends wore which color. We'll examine the graph to determine which color was most worn and least worn. Learning math in such everyday ways makes us become familiar & competent with math skills</p>
September 24, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Bring your Favorite Apple, it will be graphed. We will have a variety of apples to taste in a variety of colors; red, yellow, green, and even pink. We had the same colors of cutout paper apples to put on our graph to indicate our favorite. We'll play apple file folder games.</p>
September 25, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll review numbers from 1 to 10 hen we played apple bingo!! 🍏🍎 We'll stack ten apples up on top when we read the Dr. Seuss book by the same name. We'll sort ten apples into baskets of the same color. </p>
September 26, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Johnny Appleseed's Birthday will be celebrated by reading his story. We'll also have pans to wear as hats in dress up as we pretended to be Johnny, planting, taking care of, and harvesting our apples. We'll experiment to learn if an apple or an apple seed floats.</p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Pizza Day is fun as we have pizza delivered and have a family style meal with our friends. We practice our good manner skills using our Goddard Guide to Getting Along curriculum. Learning to wait patiently and to say "please" and "thank you" is such important life skills.</p>
September 29, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>This week your child will learn about ways that we communicate, including how to take turns speaking and listening. They will work on peer-to-peer communication, recalling and applying ideas from past experiences and expressing and exploring their curiosities.</p>
September 30, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Dominoes, dice, and counting cubes are used to practice counting and one-to-one correspondence; We’ll explore and manipulate the items. We’ll create sets or patterns using the different materials given; How could we show the number 3? How many dots are on the domino?</p>
October 1, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll emphasis community building and communication among children through the use of Spanish greeting vocabulary: hello/hi (hola), what’s up? (qué pasa), good morning (buenos días), good afternoon (buenas tardes)</p>
October 2, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Bring in a water to explore in the pond, the sensory table. We'll explore to find the answer to the questions, "Does it float?" Why does or doesn't it float? Would you see this toy in a real pond?</p>
October 3, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We explore different types of paper and stationery to communicate through different writing mediums. We’ll use pretend phones & keyboards to practice different ways we can communicate; Who can you call? What are some other ways you can let people know about a big event?</p>
October 6, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll explore different families; your family, our classroom family & animal families. We’ll discuss how families are different as well as what we have in common. This promotes social and self-awareness skills. We’ll also work on pattern recognition & print recognition. </p>
October 7, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll learn Spanish about family= familia, mom= mamá, dad= papá, grandparents= abuelos, brother= hermano, sister= hermana. We’ll learn other relevant family words such as niñera=nanny, madrastra=stepmother or (primo/prima=cousin so we can label them when looking at photos.</p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Pizza Day is fun as we have pizza delivered and have a family style meal with our friends. We practice our good manner skills using our Goddard Guide to Getting Along curriculum. Learning to wait patiently and to say "please" and "thank you" is such important life skills.</p>
October 8, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll read, "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell to answer these ?s: What does an owl sound like? How many owls do you see here? What do you do when you see your grown-up after being away from them? Did you notice any parts repeated in the book?</p>
October 9, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We explored family figurines & pets; We’ll build and create things for family figurines; discussing various things families might do together (go to an amusement park, go to the beach, etc.) for us to build.</p>
October 10, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Several Cards games (letter cards, playing cards, picture cards) were used to explore, to make pairs & to play by set rules for familiar games such as Go Fish. We’ll use file folders to block the view of our friends, to give us privacy as we lay the cards out on the table.</p>
October 13, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll build our house using blocks & other materials & we’ll compare the similarities and differences of their homes. We will also construct a 3-D house using toothpicks and molding dough, which is great for developing fine motor skills as well as shape recognition. </p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Columbus Day is celebrated by reading stories of this famous explorer. We'll also do float & sink experiments with the Pinta, Nina, & Santa Maria foil boats & pennies. We'll turn our kitchen center into the ships galley and make meals for the sailors.</p>
October 14, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll look at the weather chart. We'll connect weather to what children are wearing: “I noticed we brought jackets today. What might this tell us about the weather outside?”</p>
October 15, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll share some things we do at home to help our families; feed the pet, help fold clothes, clean their room, etc. We’ll create a bar graph to compare how people help at home by adding sticky notes where we wrote our name or draw a photo. “Wow, we do so much to help!”</p>
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Bring a Fire Truck. Fire Fighters will be studied to learn that they are first responders who are there to help us in an emergency. We'll learn the name of all of their fire equipment. We'll learn that the fire fighters are there to help us, our kind, and can be trusted.</p>
October 16, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll engage in imaginative play outside. playing as families or as animal families. Who are you in this family? We’ll use masking tape or chalk to designate areas of the outdoor space for different homes. We’ll use dramatic play as our props.</p>
October 17, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>In different plastic eggs, we’ll add dried rice, beans, paper clips, etc. We’ll shake the different eggs and compare the different sounds they make. Can children guess what is inside each egg to create those sounds?</p>
October 20, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll explore how families celebrate by sharing what we like about each other and our celebrations. We’ll write and decorate cards for friends & go on a gratitude scavenger hunt. We’ll work on developing self-awareness, social awareness & responsible decision-making skills. </p>
October 21, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll use blocks & waffle blocks to build a parade route. We’ll use a variety of cars, bikes trucks, buses, & airplanes in the parade as we answer these questions: What path will your parade take? Will they go left, or right?</p>
October 22, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll use a variety of garments, party hats, cards, boxes, scraps of wrapping paper, and envelopes & we’ll Include a variety of household items such as plates, utensils, streamers, and bows to create a celebration. What are you celebrating? Who are you going to invite?</p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Pizza Day is fun as we have pizza delivered and have a family style meal with our friends. We practice our good manner skills using our Goddard Guide to Getting Along curriculum. Learning to wait patiently and to say "please" and "thank you" is such important life skills.</p>
October 23, 2025
- 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM<p>Wearing Orange & Black is a great way to show school spirit. We learned that each holiday has colors that represent them. Using the colors orange & black; we'll paint, we'll manipulate play dough, & we'll build haunted houses.</p>
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll use measuring tools like cup measures & real-life world measurement examples like a ½ gallon mild jug in a tub with water. We also have solid objects of different sizes such as cotton balls, pebbles, etc. to scoop. We’ll determine; Which container holds the most?</p>
October 24, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Pumpkin Patch will be created with straw & pumpkins. Each student will get to visit it to pick a pumpkin to decorate & take home. We'll take beautiful photos of each child holding their pumpkin in the idyllic setting.</p>
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll various sized pumpkins/gourds for children to explore with a balance to compare weight. We’ll notice the difference in sizes, textures, and colors the pumpkins/gourds come in & how easy or hard they are to lift.</p>
October 27, 2025
- 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Our students will come looking their best, some with ties, some with hair bows, all with stunning smiles! Our photographer will capture our childhood innocence and sweetness for our parents to enjoy for a lifetime.</p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Fall picnic day, allows us to enjoy a casual lunch with our friends on a blanket spread in the October sun. We'll look up the fluffy, white clouds to see if our eyes could spot any that look like the food that we are eating. It also helps as we are assisting with photos.</p>
October 28, 2025
- 7:30 AM - 11:00 AM<p>Our students will come looking their best, some with ties, some with hair bows, all with stunning smiles! Our photographer will capture our childhood innocence and sweetness for our parents to enjoy for a lifetime.</p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Fall picnic day, allows us to enjoy a casual lunch with our friends on a blanket spread in the October sun. We'll look up the fluffy, white clouds to see if our eyes could spot any that look like the food that we are eating. It also helps as we are assisting with photos.</p>
October 29, 2025
- 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM<p>Our students will come looking their best, some with ties, some with hair bows, all with stunning smiles! Our photographer will capture our childhood innocence and sweetness for our parents to enjoy for a lifetime.</p>
- 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM<p>Fall picnic day, allows us to enjoy a casual lunch with our friends on a blanket spread in the October sun. We'll look up the fluffy, white clouds to see if our eyes could spot any that look like the food that we are eating. It also helps as we are assisting with photos.</p>
October 30, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We’ll complete puzzles about changing seasons & talk about things we might do during those seasons. We’ll answer questions about puzzles: How many puzzles pieces are there? How do we know if this puzzle piece goes here? What shapes do we see?</p>
October 31, 2025
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM<p>We'll stay calm and loose doing Halloween themed yoga. We'll have special treats and games for our Halloween Party. We'll communicate with our friends about what costumes we will wear to trunk or treat.</p>
- 3:30 PM - 4:55 PM<p>Please join us for a drop in family fun event between 3:30 & 5:00 PM, for Trunk or Treat. Some of our Goddard families will decorate their cars and pass out treats. Other families will all dress up and trick or treat as the walk from truck to trunk. What fun!</p>