Week of 4/1

Dear Garden Room Parents,
 
It was great having all the children back after Spring Break. We had a wonderful time this week as we learned about vegetables! Below is an update on the many fun things we learned.:
 
Books we read:

• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, by Stan & Jan Berenstain
• Oliver’s Vegetables, by Vivian French
• Gregory, the Terrible Eater, by Mitchell Sharmat
• Planting a Rainbow, by Lois Ehlert

 
Activities with Specialists:

• In Music with Noel, we sang Old McDonald Had a Farm and Mr. Sun, and we enjoyed reading Puff The Magic Dragon.
• In Movement with Lindsay, we enjoyed the climbing wall, going through the tunnel, using the balance beam and twirling with the hula hoops.
• In Library with Lindsay, we read Inch by Inch, by David Mallett, and sang Wheels on The Tuk Tuk, by Kabir and Surishtha Sehgal.
• In Art we enjoyed painting with various colors of water color paint and we built many exciting structures using shapes at the light table.

 
Classroom Activities:

• We created a crunchy broccoli, using green pom pom, green tissue paper and sparkly green glitter.
• We made a happy carrot using orange paint, colorful goggly eyes, then we added wavy green hair.
• We each made our own vegetable plate – choosing either broccoli, corn, peas, carrots or eggplant – delicious!!
• We had cucumber, tomato, sweet peppers and carrots with our snack.

 
Highlight:

• As a class we explored with our eyes, hands and our mouth – tasty vegetables – carrots, tomatoes, sweet peppers and cucumbers.

 
Theme: FOOD – Fruits and Vegetables 
 
 VEGETABLE SONG

CARROTS, CELERY AND BROCCOLI,
VEGETABLES ARE GOOD FOR ME!!
FOR MY SNACK, AND IN MY LUNCH,
VEGETABLES ARE GREAT TO MUNCH!!
CARROTS, CELERY AND BROCCOLI,
VEGETABLES ARE GOOD FOR ME!!
 
Reminders:
 
UPCOMING PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

• Garden 2AM – Thursday 4/25/18 
• Garden 3AM – Friday 4/26/18

 
UPCOMING CENTRAL PARK ZOO TRIP (A save the date was sent out on 2/15/18)

• Garden 3AM – Monday 5/20 – 9:45am arrival
• Garden 2AM – Thursday 5/23 – 9:45am arrival

​Every Child Must be Accompanied by One (1) Adult – No siblings please.
 
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
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