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

• Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever, by Don Freeman
• Where Is My Pumpkin?, by Karen Katz
• Say Boo, by Lynda Graham-Barber
• The Littlest Mummy, by Brandi Dougherty

Songs we sang:
"5 Little Pumpkins"
5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a gate
The 1st one said “Oh my its getting late”
The second one said, “There are witches in the air”
The 3rd one said, “but we don’t care.”
The 4th ones said, “Lets run and run and run”
The 5th ones said, “I’m read for some fun”
woooo went the wind and out went the lights
And the 5 little pumpkins rolled out of sight
 
"I'm A Little Pumpkin”
I’m a little pumpkin
Orange and round
Here is my stem
And here is the ground
When I get all cut up 
don’t you shout
Just open me up 
And scoop me out
 
“Stirring The Brew"
Stirring and Stirring and stirring  The brew
Wooo oooo, woooo oooo
Stirring and Stirring and stirring The brew
Wooo oooo, woooo oooo
Stirring and Stirring and stirring The brew
Wooo oooo, woooo oooo
Tip Toe, Tip Toe, Tip Toe
BOO!!!!
 
Places we went:

• We visited Julia and Janae in the Art Room, we played with clay and painted.
• We read 10 Little Apples in Library
• We went danced in movement.

Classroom Activities:

• We cut open a pumpkin and got to see what was inside.  Children who wanted to got to put their hands inside and feel the seeds and the pumpkin insides.  We then made "Paper Plate Pumpkins.” The children painted their plates orange and got to clue on the pumpkin pieces.

Theme next week:

• Halloween and Shapes

 
Reminders:

• Parent Teacher Conferences November 13th
• Don’t forget to label your children’s coats
• Halloween will be celebrated on Monday October 30th.  Parents are welcome to come in in the beginning of class to take photos for a bit.

 

Have a great weekend,
 
Erica and Lory

Dear Rainbow Families,
 
We had an exciting week in the Rainbow Room!  Below is an update on what your children learned this week at Montclare. Our theme this week was colors.
 
Books we read:

• Little Blue and Little Yellow, by Leo Lionni
• Mouse Paint, by Ellen Stoll Walsh
• They Crayon Box that Talked, by Shane Derolf and Michael Letzig 

 
Songs we sang:

             Color Mixing: 
             When you mix red and blue
             It makes purple
             When you mix red and blue
             It makes purple
             When you mix these two you’ll see
             A New color magically
             When you mix red and blue
             It makes purple
             (same for red and yellow and then blue and yellow)

             Color Chant:
             When I say red put your hands on your head
             When I say blue put your hands on your shoe
             When I say black put your hands on your back
             When I say brown move your hands all around
             When I say green wipe your face real clean
             When I say pink just think think think
             What I say white squeeze your fingers real tight
 
Places we went:

• We played in the gym and rode bikes
• We pretended to be animals in movement
• We window painted in art

 
Classroom Activities:

• We learned about color mixing.  We sat down and watched what happens when you mix yellow and red, or red and blue, or blue and yellow.  Then we sang our color mixing song.  After we learned about color mixing the children picked the two colors of their choice, we painted one hand one color and the other hand the other color.  After making two hand prints the children mixed their hands together to see what happened.

 
Theme next week:

• Halloween

 
Reminders:

• Parent teacher conferences November 13th.
• Don’t forget to label your children’s coats.

Have a great weekend!
 
Erica and Lory