Week of 11/26

Dear Garden Room Parents,
 
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break.
 
We had a very exciting week in the Garden Room as we learned about shapes!!
 
Below is an update on the many fun things we learned this week:
 
Books we read:

• City Shapes, by Diana Murray
• The Snake Shapes Book, by Gene Yates
• Pete the Cat – Rocking in My School Shoes, by Eric Litwin

 
Activities with Specialists:
 

• In Music with Noel, we sang Jingle Bells, The Latke Song and White Christmas.
• In Movement with Lindsay, we made music using fun clappers, and enjoyed playing with colorful scarfs.
• In Art we explored liquid tiles – watching the colors form various shapes, and we discovered the many items in the feely bin – colorful feathers, foam letters, and different textured pompoms.
• In Library with Lindsay, we read Bears in the Snow by Shirley Parenteau and we practiced spelling our name.

 
Classroom Activities:
 

• We made different forms of transportation using colorful shapes.  
• We constructed a house from various foam shapes.
• We used shape stickers to create a colorful shape collage.  
• We played with different shaped magnetic blocks.

 
Theme: Shapes
 
Highlight: We enjoyed using various shapes as steering wheels, as we sang our shape song. 
 

• Shape Song (Tune of Farmer in the Dell)
  • A circle is like a ball, a circle is like a ball!!
  • Round and round, it never stops, a circle is like a ball.
  • A square is like a box, a square is like a box!!
  • It has four sides, they’re all the same, a square is like a box.
  • A triangle has 3 sides, a triangle has 3 sides!!
  • Up the mountain, down and back, a triangle has 3 sides.

 
Reminders:
 
-Save The Date – For Our Holiday Class Party!!!  Every child must have a parent/caregiver in attendance.

• Garden 3 AM – Wednesday, December 19th, 11:15 –11:45 am
• Garden 2 AM – Thursday, November 20th, 11:15 – 11:45 am

 
-Library books are due on:

• Thursday mornings – for 2 AM
• Friday mornings – for 3 AM

 
Have a great weekend,

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