Week of 11/26

Dear Koala Room Families,

​The  holiday season is here and Koala Bears are definitely feeling festive! Here are some things we did this week:
      
Theme:

• The Koala Bears  learned about Hanukkah

 
Books We Read:

• Giraffes Can't Dance, by GiIes Andrede and Guy Parker- Rees
• On Mother's Lap, by Ann Herbert Scott
• We Belong Together, by Todd Parr
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah?, By Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• Happy Hanukkah Biscuit! ,By Alyssa Satin Capucilli

 
Centers:

• We used paper plates and clothes pins to make colorful menorahs.
•  We practiced our lacing skills using strings and wooden animals
• The children used their strong finger muscles to pick up objects with           chopsticks
• Put together a menorah sequencing puzzle
• We practice our counting with Number Sequencing Puzzles
• We played Shape Matching game and Linking Letters Monkeys game
• We made fruit salad

 
Highlights:

• The children started working on  our piece for the auction. They are really excited to see how it comes out!

 
Something Fun we Did:

• The Koala Bears sang holiday songs with Noel!
• We went to Gym 3 for Duck, Duck Goose and fun with hula hoops

 
Person of the Week:

• Mason Cantor
• We loved learning about Mason and asking him about his favorite things. Thank You for sharing dreidels with us. We had so much fun playing with them!

 
Letter of The Week

• Letter “U”nique letter
• The Koala Bears made a chart of all the “U” words they know and made letter "U" out of play dough

 
Looking Forward To:
Thursday, 12/20/18- holiday party in the Koala Bears Room at 11:45am 
 
Have a Great Weekend! 

The Koala Bear Room Teachers