Week of 3/4

Dear Honey Bear Room Parents,
              
We’ve had another awesome week at school!  We continued with the five senses, had a snow day and the Honey Bears enjoyed a lot of birthdays!  Read the update below about our activities for the week.
 
Theme This Week:

• The Five Senses.  The Honey Bears focused on touch taste and smell.
• R was the letter of the week.

 
Books We Read:

• My Five Senses, by Aliki.
• The Five Senses, Touch, by Maria Rius.
• The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza, by Philemon Sturgis.

 
Places We Went:

• Art studio with Janae and Julia.  The children painted with sponges and q-tips.
• Gym 2.

 
Classroom Activities:

• Used various materials to create original “touch” collages.
• Worked on size order, cutting and patterning. 
• Played a smell guessing game.  The children took turns guessing what they were smelling.  They loved oranges and perfume the best. 
• Took a vote on what we liked best-salty pretzels or sweet chocolate chips.  We also voted on our favorite lunches!  Lots of us like pasta, pizza or sandwiches.
• Did all of our HWOT activities for the letter R.

 
Highlights:

• Maxwell Guercio was our Person of the Week.  His mom read Llama, Llama Red Pajama and Maxwell did an amazing job telling us about his poster.  Then the Honey Bears had a blast playing carnival games.  There was a beanbag toss and fun with hula hoops.  Afterwards we listened to Maxwell’s favorite song, We Will Rock You by Queen! 
• Ashley, Brooklyn and Wyatt all celebrated their birthday’s.  Happy 4th birthday to our Honey Bear friends!

 
Dates To Remember:

• Friday, 3/15- Last day before Spring Break.
• Monday, 4/1-School resumes.
• Thursday/Friday, 4/25 and 4/26- Parent/Teacher Conferences and Book Fair. 

 
Have a Great Weekend!

The Honey Bear Room Teachers