Dear Rainbow Room Parents,
 
We had another exciting week!  Below is an update on what the Rainbow Room children learned this week at Montclare.  Our Theme this week was Spring and Gardening.
 
Books we read:

• A Sunny Day, by Amy Lola M. Schaefer
• The Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle
• My Garden, by Kevin Henkes

 
Places we went:

• We played in the gym
• We did finger painting in Art
• We read Every Friday in library

Classroom Activities:

• We read the book My Garden.  After talking about what we need to do to make plants grow, we planted some beans.  The children wet paper towel, and got to pick which beans they wanted to put in them.  They are now hanging on the windows on our window, where we will watch them grow (fingers crossed).

 
Theme next week:

• Animals

 
Reminders:
•  Don’t forget to label your children’s coats
 
SAVE THE DATE:

• Central Park Zoo Trip
• Friday, May 17th – 9:45-11:45
• NO PM CLASS THAT DAY

 
Parent Teacher Conferences:  If you forgot your times please let me know.

• Thursday, April 25th or Friday, April 26th

Have a great weekend,
 
Erica & Lory

Dear Rainbow Room Parents,
 
We had another exciting week!  Below is an update on what the Rainbow Room children learned this week at Montclare. Our Theme this week was Spring and Gardening.
 
Books we read:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
• My Garden, by Kevin Henkes

 
Places we went:

• We read The Adventures of Beekle in library
• We did stamps on our water color paintings in Art

Classroom Activities:

• We talked about different kinds of bugs we may see in the spring time.  We made bumble bees with yellow and black paper.

 
Theme next week:

• Spring/Gardening

 
Reminders:

• Don’t forget to label your children’s coats

 
SAVE THE DATE: Central Park Zoo Trip
Friday, May 17th – 9:45-11:45
NO PM CLASS THAT DAY
 
Parent Teacher Conferences:  If you forgot your times please let me know.
Thursday, April 25th or Friday, April 26th

Have a great weekend!
 
Erica & Lory

Dear Rainbow Room Families,
 
Welcome back, we had another exciting week!  Below is an update on what the Rainbow Room children learned this week at Montclare.  Our Theme this week was Spring and Gardening.
 
Books we read:

• A Sunny Day, by Amy Lola M. Schaefer
• The Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle

 
Places we went:

• We had so much fun playing in the gym
• We sang songs with Noel
• We water colored in Art

 

Classroom Activities:

• We talked about flowers growing and how they are many different colors and sizes.  We talked about the different parts of the flower and after that we did an art project where we made our own beautiful flowers, out of foam pieces.

 
Theme next week:

• Spring/Gardening

 
Reminders:

• Don’t forget to label your children’s coats

• SAVE THE DATE: Central Park Zoo Trip Friday, May 17th – 9:45-11:45
• Parent Teacher Conferences:  If you forgot your times please let me know. Thursday, April 25th or Friday, April 26th

Have a great weekend!
 
Erica, Lory, and Altagracia