Week of 4/15

Dear Koala Room Families,

We had another amazing week at school! The weather has been improving and finally it feels like Spring. Here are some of the fun activities:

Theme:

• The Koala Room learned about Spring.

 
Books We Read:

• Wolfie the Bunny, by Ame Dyckman
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
• The Year’s Garden, by Cynthia Rylant
• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, by Jon Scieszka

 
Centers:

• We worked on Spring patterns. 
• We made instruments from plastic pipes and the children pretended that they were in a marching band.
• We made our beautiful April Mat Man.
• The children used their strong finger muscles to pick up objects with chopsticks.
• We played Memory Matching game.
• For cooking we made fruit salad.

 
Highlights:

• The Koala Room children are looking forward to practicing our play for the Theater Week, they love Pet the Cat books.

       
 
Letter of the Week:

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

 
Important Dates:

• April 19th NO SCHOOL- Good Friday
• April 25th, 26th – Parents -Teacher Conferences

 
Have a Great Weekend

The Koala Bear Room Teachers