Dear Red Room Families,

This week in the Red Room was out of this world! Here are some of our intergalactic activities:
 
Theme:

• Space

Books We Read:

• Mae Among The Stars, by Roda Ahmed
• I want to Be an Astronaut, by Byron Barton
• Stars, by Steve Tomecek

Centers:

• We used yellow paint and Q-tips to build constellations in the art Center.
• We sequenced the planets in the solar system and made space rocket patterns in the math center.
• We mixed flour and baby oil to make malleable moon sand in the science center.
• The class built a sturdy space station in the Block Center.
• We had a pasta party in the cooking center!

Something Fun We Did:

• Estelle’s dad visited the room and taught us all about construction and bridges!
• We celebrated May Birthday Day!

Letters of the Week:

• T, I, and J

Dates to Remember:

• 5/27 Memorial day
• 5/31 Field day 10am-1pm. We will be meeting and dismissing from Central Park
• 6/7 Last Day of School. Party 8:30am-9:15am.

 
Have a lovely long weekend!

Ms. Brenna, Ms. Nicole, and Mr. Alex

Dear Red Room Families,

What a busy week in the Red Room! Here are some of our activities:
 
Theme:

• New York City

​Books We Read:

• A Walk In New York City, by Salvatore Rubbino
• New York City, by Paula Hannigan
• Subway Story, by Julia Sarcome-Roach

Centers:

• The children used a variety of materials to build different types of bridges in the building center.
• We drew our favorite New York City sights and made a large collage with our Brooklyn Bridge pictures in the art center.
• In the math center, the children glued windows onto tall paper skyscrapers and counted how many they had total.

Letter of the Week:

• A

Something Fun We Did:

• Brooklyn Bridge Trip! Thank you to all of our chaperones who helped the kids complete the photo scavenger hunt. It was a wonderful day with a wonderful class!

Dates to Remember:

• 5/24 Pasta Party! No need to send lunch  that day!
• 5/27 No School-Memorial Day
• 5/31 Field Day!

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Brenna, Ms. Nicole, Mr. Alex

Dear Red Room Families,

It was a lovely week in the Red Room. Here are some of our activities:
 
Theme:

• Math and Measurement

Centers:

• In the Math center, we discussed different ways to measure an object. The students then drew a picture of a bug and chose a material from the classroom to use as their unit of measurement. The children chose lego pieces, unifix cubes, and even pasta to figure out the measurements of their bugs!
• In the Art center, the children worked on special gifts for their grown-ups.
• In the building center, the children used cardboard, boxes, and paint to build our very own addition robot! The children would place one amount of objects in one tube and a different amount in the other. The two tubes would empty together into a basket which allowed us to count how many we had all together.
• We made and decorated butterfly shaped cookies in the Cooking center.

Something Fun We Did:

• We set our butterflies and ladybugs free on Tuesday! After enjoying watching our ladybugs and butterflies grown from larvae and caterpillars to full grown adult bugs, we knew it was time to set them free. We put on our newly made butterfly wings and took the habitats up to the roof to let the bugs go. However, we think they just may come back to enjoy our freshly planted garden!

Letter of the Week:

• S

Who Was In The Barn?

• Willa!

Dates to Remember:

• 5/15: Brooklyn Bridge Trip. Early dismissal on this day.

 
Have a great weekend!

Ms. Brenna, Ms. Nicole, and Mr. Alex

Dear Red Room Families,

We’re learning all about cycles this week in the Red Room. Here are some of our activities:
 
Theme: 

• Life Cycles

Books We Read:

• The Life Cycle of a Butterfly, by Robin Bernard
• From Tadpole to Frog, by Jan Kottke
• The Life Cycle of a Chicken, by Lisa Trumbauer

 
Centers:

• In the math center, we measured how many ladybugs could fit across the length of a leaf.
• In the writing center, we drew the different parts of the life cycle of a ladybug.
• In the art center, we made large symmetrical butterfly wings to wear when we release our butterflies when they hatch from their chrysalis’. 
• We also created and labeled the parts of a butterfly life cycle using different types of pasta.

Something Fun:

• Our butterflies or in their chrysalis’ and the ladybugs are in their pupa phase. Soon they will be in the adult phase of their cycle and we will release them next week!

Letter of the Week:

• G

Who Was In The Barn?

• Willa!

Dates to remember:

• 5/15 Brooklyn Bridge Trip
• 5/31 Field Day

 
Have a nice weekend!

Ms. Brenna, Ms. Nicole, and Mr. Alex