Week of 10/22

Dear Garden Room Families,
 
We had a very exciting week in the Garden Room!!
 
Below is an update on the many fun things your children learned this week:
 
Books we read:

• The Nutty Nut Chase, by Kathryn White and Vanessa Cabban
• Harvest Party,  by Jennifer O'Connell
• Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell

 
Activities with Specialists:
 

• In Library, we said hello to Ms. Lindsay’s friendly seal and we read We Love You Rosie! By Cynthia Rylant.
• In Music with Noel, we sang along to the book “The Wheels on the Bus” and sang Baby Beluga.
• In Movement with Lindsay, we had fun playing various instruments as a part of the drum circle, and we played red light, green light.
• In Art, we used various colors of paint to create beautiful pictures on the easel and we built using different geometric shapes.

 
Classroom Activities:
 

• We practiced doing our Jobs.
• We created a fun fall leaves using colorful jewels and glitter. 
• We made pumpkin hand-prints using orange paint.
• We created a fun pumpkin collage using various pieces of orange and brown material.  

 
Theme: Pumpkins
 
Highlight: 

• As a class we took turns guessing what was inside of our classroom pumpkin (great guesses – posted outside the classroom).  

 

• I’m A Little Pumpkin Song (Sung to the tune of I’m A Little Teapot)
  • I’m a Little Pumpkin
  • Orange and Round
  • Here is My Stem
  • There is the Ground
  • When I Get all Cut Up
  • Don’t You Shout
  • Just Open Me Up
  • And Scoop Me Out!!!

Reminders:

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

 

• Parent Teacher Conferences- individual time slots were emailed:
  • Monday 11/12/18 – 3AM
  • Tuesday 11/13/18 – 2AM

 

• Picture Day:
  • Wednesday 11/14/18 – 3AM
  • Thursday 11/15/18 - 2AM

 
Have a great weekend,

Your Garden Room Teachers – Ms. Coleen, Ms. Naya and Ms. Mildred