Week of 1/14

Dear Garden Room Parents,
 
We had a very exciting week in the Garden Room learning all about WINTER!!
 
Below is an update on the many fun things we learned this week:
 
Books we read:

• Mouse’s First Snow, by Lauren Thompson
• The Little Red Sled, by Tisha Hamilton
• Will You Wear a Blue Hat?, by Scholastic

 
Activities with Specialists:

• In Music with Noel, we sang The Days of the Week song and If You’re Happy and You Know It.
• In Movement with Lindsay, we enjoyed doing fun yoga poses, and we pretended to be winter animals going around the gym.
• In Library with Lindsay, we read Polar Bear Morning, by Lauren Thompson.
• In Art we played with colorful connectors at the light table, and we created beautiful collages – using green, blue, and yellow paint.

 
Classroom Activities:

• We decorated beautiful winter mittens, using different shaped shiny stickers and fluffy cotton balls.

• We created paper bag snowmen, decorating them with goggly eyes, foam buttons and a big triangle nose.
• We made winter collages, using various colored sparkly snowflake stickers.  

 
Theme: Winter
 
Highlight:  As a class we talked about the fun winter activities that we enjoy doing with our friends and family.

SNOWFLAKE

• 1 little snowflake with nothing to do,
• Along came another, and then there were 2.
• 2 little snowflakes, laughing with me,
• Along came another, and then there were 3.
• 3 little snowflakes, looking for some more,
• Along came another, and then there were 4.
• 4 little snowflakes, dancing a jive,
• Along came another, and then there were 5.
• 5 little snowflakes, having so much fun,
• Out came the sun, and then there were none!!

 
Reminders:

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

 
Have a great weekend,

Your Garden Room Teachers ​