Week of 10/15

Dear Garden Room Parents,
 
We had an exciting week in the Garden Room!
 
Below is an update on what your children learned this week:
 
Books we read:

• Acorns Everywhere, by Kevin Sherry
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
• We’re Going On A Leaf Hunt, by Steve Metzger

 
Activities with Specialist:

• We sang Baby Beluga and Mr. Sun with Noel in Music.
• We worked on collaborative paintings together in Art, with Julia and Janea, and used fun colorful connectors at the light table.
• We pretended to be animals with Lindsay in Movement, and played different musical instruments.
• We read The Very Busy Spider, by Eric Carle, in Library with Lindsay.

 
Classroom Activities:

• We created delicious apple trees, using green dot markers and red pom pom apples!!
• We sang the “Hello Song”, “Weather Song”, and the“Calendar Song” during Circle Time.
• We fed our very hungry caterpillar a lot of food during our felt board activity time, and watched him turned into a beautiful butterfly.
• We created textured acorns, using a variety of fun textures – like foam, tissue paper and glitter!!

 
Highlights:

• As a class we talked about Fall, the various colors of the leaves in the fall, and fun fall activities such as apple picking and pumpkin picking!!

 
Theme:  Fall 
 

Fall Song (Sung to the tune of Are You Sleeping)

Leaves are Falling
Leaves are Falling
To the Ground
Without a sound
Days are getting shorter
Nights are getting longer
Fall is here!!
Fall is here!!
 
Reminders:

• Library books are due on:
  • Thursday mornings – for 2AM
  • Friday mornings – for 3AM

 
Have a great weekend,
 
Your Garden Room Teachers – Ms. Coleen, Ms. Naya and Ms. Mildred