Week of 1/7

Dear Honey Bear Parents,

Welcome back and Happy New Year!  We hope everyone had an enjoyable winter break.  Please read the update below about what the children learned this week at Montclare.
 
Theme This Week:

• Winter
• The letter of the week was G.

 
Books We Read:

• When It Starts to Snow, by Phillis Gershator
• The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
• Snowballs, by Lois Ehlert
• Snow Friends, by M. Christina Butler

 
Places We Went:

• Library with Lindsay.  She read “My Lucky Day” by Keiko Kasza.
• Gym 2  and gym 3 for bike riding, ball playing and building.

 
Classroom Activities:

• We learned a new winter song sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star:

Wintertime brings lots of snow,
Chilly winds just blow and blow.
Snowflakes swirling through the air,
Twirling, whirling here and there.
Wintertime brings lots of snow,
Chilly winds just blow and blow.

• The Honey Bears decorated snowflakes, made popsicle stick snowmen and new placemats for snack.
• The children played a count and match snowflake game, put together snowflake puzzles and played a match the hat to the snowman game.

 
Highlights:

• We had our first musical assembly of the year with Noel!  We heard lots of new songs and we also sang some songs we already know.
• Next week, we will continue our unit on winter and S will be the letter of the week.

 
Dates To Remember:

• Monday 1/21 and Tuesday 1/22- No school for Martin Luther King Jr. day and Professional Development.
• Friday 1/25- Winter Benefit at The Lighthouse, Chelsea Piers.
• Thursday 2/7- Cultures Festival in the Honey Bear Room at 11:30.  Every child needs an adult.

 
Have a lovely weekend,
​
The Honey Bear Room Teachers