Week of 2/4

Dear Garden Room Parents,
 
We had a great week in the Garden Room, learning about the many different feelings we can have!!
 
Below is an update on the many fun things we learned this week:
 
Books we read:

• If You’re Happy And You Know It (Jungle Version), by James Warhola
• The Pout Pout Fish, by Deborah Diesen
• Do You Want To Be My Friend, by Eric Carle

 
Activities with Specialists:

• In Music with Noel, we sang A Bushel and A Peck and  It’s Raining It’s Pouring.
• In Movement with Lindsay, we practiced our gymnastics while navigating an obstacle course, and we had fun on the climbing wall.
• In Library with Lindsay, we read Clifford’s First Valentine, by Norman Bridwell.
• In Art we experimented by dropping different objects (wood chips, rocks, corks) in water; we also discovered the rainbow hidden under the black sand, and we strung colorful beads together.

 
Classroom Activities:

• We talked about how we were feeling ‘today’ and selected a Feelings Face Mask to express our feeling.  
• We created our own Pout Pout fish – using blue paint, adding goggly eyes and a pom pom nose, then we selected either a smile or a frown for the mouth.
• We decorated picture frames for our ‘feelings pictures’ using various colored shapes.
• We had fun looking in the mirror and expressed how we were feeling by making different faces.

 
 
Theme: Feelings
 
Highlight:  We enjoyed exploring the snow in our sensory bin – discovering many animals that enjoy the cold winter weather. 
FEELINGS SONG

• I HAVE FEELINGS, YOU DO TOO
• LET’S ALL SING ABOUT A FEW.
• I AM HAPPY, I AM SAD,
• I GET SCARED, I GET MAD.
• I AM PROUD OF BEING ME,
• THAT’S A FEELING TOO YOU SEE.
• I HAVE FEELINGS, YOU DO TOO,
• WE JUST SANG ABOUT A FEW.

 
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