Week of 1/7

Dear Koala Room Families,

​Happy New Year!!!

It’s cold outside and the winter season is in full swing in the Kola Room! Here are some of the activities we did:
 
Theme:

• The Koala Room learned about Winter

 
Books We Read:

• Snowflakes Fall, by Patricia MacLachlan and Steven Kellogg
• Snowballs, by Lois Ehlert
• Bear's First Winter, by Stephen Krensky
• The Little Red Sled, by Tisha Hamilton
• Sneezy the Snowman, by Maureen Wright

 
Centers:

• We worked on sorting snowflakes
• We practiced fine motor skills with the help of a “hungry animals”
• We played "Positional Words" game
• We practiced measuring with cubes
• We worked on making a snowman
• We voted to decide what color play-dough we should make - blue color was the winner! 
• We made play-dough

 
Highlights:

• Our Winter Benefit project is complete. The children loved seeing how it came out!!

 
Something Fun we Did:

• We went to our monthly Musical Assembly !

 
Letter of the Week:

• Our letter of the week was the letter “G”
• The Kola Bears made a chart of all the “G” words they know and we used paint to practice writing the letter “G”

  
Have a Great Weekend!

The Koala Bear Room Teachers