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 Holidays.
 
Books we read:

• The Gingerbread Bear, by Magaret Moorman
• Pete The Cat Saves Christmas, by Eric Litwin
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah?, by Jane Yolen & Mark
• The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg 

Songs we sang:

• “December Song” (sung too “I’ve been working on the railroad”)

Oh, The month of December, is filled with Holidays!
Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and Christmas, are marked in special ways!
Celebrating with our loved ones, not matter how it’s done…
Sharing first and lighting candles, we all have lots of fun!
 
Places we went:

• We had fun painting with table easels in art
• We sang holiday songs with Noel

 

Classroom Activities:

• This week we talked about the up coming holidays.  The children made Christmas trees using contact paper, glitter, green tissue paper and small ornaments.
• We also talked about Chanukah, and the children made menorahs out of paper plates and popsicle sticks.

 

Theme next week:

• Holidays

 
Reminders:
 

• Don’t forget to label your children’s coats
• UPDATE!!! NEW SAVE THE DATE:  Holiday Party – Friday, December 14th from 3:00-3:30.

 
Have a great weekend!

Lory and Veronika
 

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 Friends and Family.
 
Books we read:

• I'm Like you, You're Like Me, by Cindy Gainer
• The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn
• Best Best Friends, by Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Songs we sang:
• "1, 2, 3 You are Friends with Me"

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Places we went:

• We had fun painting with different circles in art.

 

Classroom Activities:
This week we talked about all our friends we have in the rainbow room.  We each made a friendship necklace using yarn and pasta noodles.  At the end of the day each child picked a necklace out of a bag made by another friend.
 

Theme next week:

• Thanksgiving

 
Reminders:

• Parent Teacher Conferences November 12th
• School photos Wednesday, November 14th.
• Don’t forget to label your children’s coats

 
Have a great weekend!
 
Lory and Veronika

Dear Rainbow 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/shapes.
 
Books we read:

• Trick or Treat, Little Critter, by Gina and Mercer Mayer
• Where Is My Mummy?, by Carolyn Crimi

 

Songs we sang:

• Rebus Song of Shapes

 
Places we went:

• We visited Noel and played our Kazoos
• We went trick or treating around the school.
• We pretended to be Halloween characters in movement

 

Classroom Activities:

• We made shape collages.

 

Theme next week:

• Friends and Family

 
Reminders:

• Parent Teacher Conferences November 12th
• School photos Wednesday, November 14th.
• Don’t forget to label your children’s coats

 

Have a great weekend,
 
Rainbow Room Teachers