Week of 2/11

Dear Garden Room Parents,
 
Love Is In The Air in the Garden Room!!!  This week we learned all about Valentine’s Day!!
 
Below is an update on the many fun things we learned this week:
 
Books we read:

• Porcupine Valentine, by Aaron Zenz
• How Many Hearts?, by Chuck Murphy
• Pete the Cat, Rocking in My School Shoes, by Eric Litwin

 
Activities with Specialists:
 

• In Music with Noel, we sang and read Puff the Magic Dragon and Don’t Worry Be Happy.
• In Movement with Lindsay, we practiced walking backwards like a brown bear and we traveled around the world with Mr. Bunny.
• In Library with Lindsay, we read The Day It Rained Hearts, by Felicia Bond.
• In Art we made various patterns on the nature trail, using rocks and seeds; we painted wooden blocks and played in the snow.

 
Classroom Activities:
 

• We talked about the feeling of love and different ways of showing and expressing our love.  
• We created special Valentine’s Day hearts for our Mommy and Daddy using colorful tissue paper, pompoms, glitter and buttons.
• We decorated fun Valentine’s hats using red, pink and purple dot markers.
• We painted warm hearts using sponges and fun colors – magenta, pink, red and periwinkle.

 

• Take a look at the adorable Feeling Pictures and Our Love Birds - on the classroom board outside the room!!

 
Highlight: We enjoyed our Valentine’s Day party, exchanging Valentines with our friends and enjoying a special treat.
 
Theme: Valentine’s Day
 
SONG about LOVE

• LOVE IS SOMETHING WHEN YOU GIVE IT AWAY,
• GIVE IT AWAY,
• GIVE IT AWAY,
• LOVE IS SOMETHING WHEN YOU GIVE IT AWAY,
• YOU ALWAYS GET SOMETHING BACK
• YOU ALWAYS GET SOMETHING BACK!!

 
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. Karen and Ms. Mildred