Week of 10/15

Dear Rainbow Room Parents,

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
• Pete the cat: I Love My white Shoes, by Eric Litwin
• One, by Kathryn Otoshi​

 
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 gyms and rode bikes
• We pretended to be animals in movement
• We did easel painting 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.
•  We did cereal color sorting, where the children were asked to sort fruit loops in the correct color circle.  
• The children also used cars to mix different color paints on white paper and make car tracks.

Theme next week:

• Halloween

 ​Reminders:

• Parent teacher conferences November 12th or 13th.

Don’t forget to label your children’s coats and put the coats inside your child’s blue bag at drop off.

Have a great weekend!

Lory, Altagracia and Alina