Week of 9/24

Dear Panda Room Parents,


 
We had a great first few weeks in the Panda Room learning all about Back to School and Bears.

Books we read:

• The Lamb Who Loved to Laugh, by Carol Pugliano-Martin
• Have You Filled a Bucket Today?, by Carol McCloud
• Panda & Polar Bear, by Matthew J. Baek
• Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?, by Bill Martin Jr./ Eric Carle

 
Places we went:

• We saw Noel in Music and started learning "Feeling Groovy"-- its a 4 year old song :)
• Used our best listening ears in Library with Lindsay. We read a story about leaves because it's Fall. We also took out books for the first time
• Created fantastic work in the art room.

 
Classroom Activities:

• Had our Letter of the Week “L”
• We learned all about Mat Man and drew him as a class and independently. 
• Worked on our fine motor with scissors. We cut 5 lines of bamboo
• Used our best listening ears to hear How Full is Your Bucket. Bucket Fillinf and kindness is very important in the Panda Room. We even recite our bucket filling pledge every morning. It goes like this....

 
Im a bucket filler each and every day
Kind things I do
Kind things I say
And I do my best
Not to ever dip
And I say "I'm Sorry"
If I ever dip
    

• During centers, we worked on shapes and shape recognition while building school buses.
• We also started patterns- you can see them hanging up in the classroom 

 
We have been BUSY all month and we can't wait for what's to come!
 
Theme this week:

• We talked about Bears
• Next week we will discuss Fall, Apples, Leaves and Trees

 
Reminders:

• 10/4 Curriculum Night
• 10/12 Farmers Market-- Chaperones will be picked Monday 10/1 and an email will go out. If you would still like to chaperone please email me
• 11/9 - Leaf Hunt-- EVERY CHILD NEEDS AN ADULT

Have a great weekend,

The Panda Room Teachers