Week of 12/3

Dear Honey Bear Room Parents,

We’ve had a terrific week in the Honey Bear Room here at MCS!  Everyone is excited about the holiday season and we can’t wait for our party.  Please read the update below about what the children have been up to. 
 
Theme This Week:

• We started talking about winter holidays by focusing on Chanukah.
• C was the letter of the week. 

 
Books We Read:

• My First Chanukah, by Tomie de Paola
• Celebrating Chanukah, by Debbie Martinez

 
Places We Went:

• Gym 2 and gym 3.
• Music with Noel.  The children enjoyed ringing jingle bells!

 
Classroom Activities:

• The children had fun with coding!  Every day a few friends got a chance to do our maze by following directions or the command given by the teacher.  The children really like it!
• The class lit a Chanukah menorah on our felt board. 
• We told a Chanukah sequence story and put dreidels in size order. 
• The Honey Bears made adorable snowman cards and beautiful menorahs and dreidels that are hanging in the classroom. 
• We played a count and match dreidel game and did all of our HWOT activities for the letter C. 
• Miles Carnegie was our Person of the Week.   He did an amazing job telling us all about himself and his pictures!  His Dad read a book about the characters from the Cars Movie and then Miles gave each of his friends their own toy race-car.  Wow!  Afterwards, we enjoyed a tasty squeezable fruit snack; Miles’ favorite.  Thanks Miles!

 
Highlights:

• The class played with dreidels and we made delicious potato pancakes called Latkes. 
• We’ve been singing lots of holiday songs!

 
Looking Forward to:

• Next week we will focus on Christmas and the letter of the week will be O.
• Our Holiday Party on the 20th.

 
 
Dates To Remember:

• Thursday, December 20th- Holiday Party in the Honey Bear Room at 11:30.
• Monday, January 7th- Return to school after break.

 
Have a Wonderful Weekend! 

The Honey Bear Room Teachers