Week of 2/4

Dear Koala Room Families,

This was our last week talking about cultures. Thank you so much to the parents who volunteered their time, it was so educational for all of us ! Here are some of the festive activities we did:
 
Theme:

• The Koala Room learned about Cultures

 
Books We Read:

• Go, Go, Gecko-Mobile!, By Simon Spotlight
• Mat Man Shapes, By Jan Olsen
• My First Chinese New Year, By Karen Katz
• New Year’s Cleanup, By George Daugherty
• Whoever You Are, By Mem Fox

 
Centers:

• We practiced our cutting and coloring and we made beautiful Lunar New Year lanterns
• We voted what shape our Mat Man should have, heart was the winner!
• We played “Progressive Puzzles”
• We explored water beads
• We practiced our counting with number matching game “Unlock It”- the children had so much fun finding the right key to unlock locks! 
• For cooking, the children had a chance to try polish pierogi and polish kielbasa.

 
Highlights:

• It was so much fun to learn about Lunar New Year. Thank you Jason and Max, and Joy and Henry, we learn so much about Chinese culture.
• We “visited” Poland, it was pleasure to teach Koala Room Children about country where I’m from.

 
Something Fun we Did:

• We had Assembly, it was so much fun signing with the entire school !

 
Letter of the Week:

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

 
Have a Great Weekend!

The Koala Bear Room Teachers