Week of 12/3

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

• Snow, by Uri Shulevitz
• Celebrating Chanukah – Eight Nights, by Debbie Martinez
• Clifford’s First Christmas, by Norman Bridwell

 
Activities with Specialists:
 

• In Music with Noel, we sang Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer, Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah and Jingle Bells.
• In Movement with Lindsay, we pretended to be winter animals – penguins, polar bears, and reindeer; we also took turns playing the pan drum.
• In Art we painted paddles using sparkly silver paint, and we built different structures using colorful shapes.
• In Library with Lindsay, we read The Gingerbread Boy, by Richard Egielski. 

 
Classroom Activities:
 

• We made fun dreidels using colorful foam letters and glitter.
• In celebration of Hour of Code – we played freeze dance using our stoplight (Red – Stop, Yellow – Slow, Green – Go).
• We used holiday stickers to create a festive collage.  
• We created yummy candy canes, using marbles, red paint and glitter.

 
Theme: The Holidays - Hanukkah and Christmas
 

• 5 LITTLE GINGERBREAD
  • 5 Little Gingerbread Lying on a Tray,
  • 1 Jumped Up and Ran Away
  • Catch Me, Catch Me, Catch Me If You Can!
  • I Run Real Fast, I’m the Gingerbread Man.
  • 4,3,2,1
  • No More Gingerbread Lying on a Tray,
  • They All Jumped Up and Ran Away!!

 
Highlight: We embraced Hour of Code, by using only visual cues using our stoplight (Red – Stop, Yellow – Slow, Green – Go).
 
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, December 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