Hello Sky Room Families!

This week in the Sky Room we have been continuing to learn all about Fruits and Vegetables! Learning about fruits and vegetables, paired with Daylight Savings Time AND our growing 2 and 3 year old bodies has made us all VERY hungry this week. :) We have also been talking about Spring Break, and how we won’t be in school for 2 whole weeks! 

Classroom Activities:

• We talked a bit about St. Patrick’s Day, and explained that this is a holiday celebrated in the United States AND Ireland that happens every year on March 17th.
• We continued to practice our cutting skills using our kid-friendly scissors. Some students cut up paper and used tape to create a little book!
• We made our very own leprechaun masks using paper plates with the middle cut out, orange paint, and added on some green hats as well!
• We painted some watermelons! We painted our watermelons green, and then the students had the choice to either cut snips of pink paper, or, use their hands to tear small pieces up and paste inside the middle of the watermelon. We then asked the students to pick a number 1-10 and count out tiny black “seeds” (black pieces of paper), and paste them onto the watermelon. 
• We cooked Pizza Bagels with our Rainbow Room friends! The students loved assembling their individual pizzas and then had to practice patiently waiting for them to cook.

 
Songs We Sang:

• “Victor Vito"
• “If You’re Happy and You Know It”
• “Down By The Bay"

 
Books We Read:

• If You Give A Dog A Donut, by Laura Numeroff
• I Can Eat a Rainbow”, by Annabel Karmel 
• The Spiffiest Giant in Town, by Julia Donaldson

Reminders:

• MCS will be closed for Spring Break the weeks of March 18 and March 25 and will reopen on Monday, April 1st. 

Have a wonderful Spring Break everyone!

Laura, Desiree, and Ashley

Hello Sky Room Families!

We hope you enjoyed your snow day! This week in the Sky Room we have been learning all about Fruits and Vegetables. We learned the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, and had the chance to even taste a few different types of each! The students seem to really love activities that revolve around eating. :) 
 
Classroom Activities:

• We conducted a fruit and vegetable taste test! The students each tasted a banana, strawberry, carrot, and yellow pepper. After they tried each food, they were asked to find and identify their name (which was printed on name tags). They were then shown a large graph that contained columns which had a picture of a banana, strawberry, carrot, and a yellow pepper at the bottom. After they voted on which food they liked best, we tallied up the votes to see which fruit/vegetable had the most likes, and which had the least amount of likes. This graph is hanging outside of our classroom, so be sure to check it out to see our results!
  
  
• The students went on a “Fruit and Vegetable Hunt” all throughout the Sky Room. The teachers hid different fruits and vegetables we found in our play kitchen, and the students raced around the room to find as many hidden items as they could! After we collected all of the fruits and vegetables, we gathered on the rug to count out how many we had found in total. We also deciphered which foods were fruits and which were vegetables. At the end of our discussion, we counted to see which we had more of – fruits or vegetables.

• Each student chose to assemble an eggplant, yellow pepper, tomato, radish, and carrot using glue, cellophane, and glitter. As the students made each piece of food, we discussed whether it was a fruit or vegetable, if it had seeds, and where/how it grew on our Earth!

Songs We Sang:

• “The Fruit Rhyme"
• “Vegetable Song!”

 
Books We Read:

• Duck Soup, by Jackie Urbanovic
• Growing Vegetable Soup, by Lois Ehlert
• To Market, To Market, by Anne Miranda

  
Reminders:

• MCS will be closed for Spring Break the weeks of March 18 and March 25 and will reopen on Monday, April 1st. 

​Have a great weekend everyone!
Laura, Desiree, and Ashley

Hello Sky Room Families!
 
It’s been another fun-filled week here in the Sky Room. This week, we learned about and sang many different Nursery Rhymes. Many of the Nursery Rhymes we sang involved counting, rhyming, and repetition.
 
Classroom Activities:

• We made “Hickory Dickory Dock” clocks! Before starting the project, we asked the students what they think a clock is used for, to which a majority of them (very frankly) replied, “It’s how I know when I have to go to bed.” So, in order to create their clocks, the students were first given large paper plates to paint with a paint of their choice. They were then asked to identify the numbers 1-12, which were printed on white paper and cut out into individual squares. As the students found number 1, 2, 3, etc., they placed each number in the correct order onto their clock. After they completed identifying and counting out the numbers, they then placed the little paper mouse onto their clock! Our clocks are currently featured on the inside bulletin board.
• Using contact paper and yellow construction paper cut into the outline of a star, the students used tissue paper squares and glitter to make “Star Light, Star Bright”. This activity showed the students how to practice being patient by taking one piece of thin tissue paper at a time to stick onto the contact paper. If they grabbed a bunch of the squares at once, they would not stick to the contact paper. This activity reinforced the idea of slowing down and taking their time to create a meaningful star using different colors of tissue paper squares. As a final step, they added some glitter to brighten up their stars!
• We made some silly Humpty Dumpty's! For Humpty's body, we added on some googley eyes, a bow tie, mouth, arms and some feet. Using dot markers and gems, we decorated Humpty's pants. We helped the students to assemble Humpty by filling the inside of his body with cotton balls. Our Humpty Dumpty's are currently hanging out on the outside classroom board!

• For a fun and tasty treat, we made fruit smoothies with our Rainbow Room friends! With a mixture of bananas, blueberries, strawberries, ice, and a splash of orange juice, the students devoured their smoothies.

​Songs We Sang:

• “Humpty Dumpty”
• “Star Light, Star Bright”
• “The Cheese Stands Alone”
• “Hickory Dickory Dock”
• “Mary Had A Little Lamb"

 
Books We Read:

• “The Ultimate Mother Goose Collection”, by Twin Sisters Productions, Inc.
• “Knick-Knack Paddywhack!”, by Paul Zelinksy

 
Important Dates to Remember:

• March 15th is the last day of school before Spring Break!

 
We hope you have a great weekend!

Laura, Desiree and Ashley