Week of 11/5

Dear Star Room 2AM Families,
 
We enjoyed learning about our surroundings this week, as Fall is certainly upon us now. Our five senses were in full swing as we explored leaves and the changes that occur in Fall. Below is an update on what the Star Room children learned this week at Montclare. 
 
Theme this week:

• We explored the Fall season and leaves this week! We learned that during Fall, the weather gets colder, which means that we wear jackets outside, the leaves change colors and fall from the trees and that it is the season when we start school. The children also brought in leaves they collected for our leaf study. We observed that they came in many different colors, red, yellow and brown, as well as different shapes. We used our ears to hear how they “crunch, crunch” when they dry out. Every child got the opportunity to hold the leaves and explore their properties.

 
Books we read:

• How Do You Know It’s Fall? by Allan Fowler
• Fall Leaves Fall, by Zoe Hall

 
Songs we sang:

• “What’s the Weather?”
• “All the Leaves Are Falling Down”

 
Places we went:

• We created painting masterpieces with Julia and Janae in Art using different sized containers and paint to stamp circles.
• We read stories and took our library books in Library with Lindsay
• We sang I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon, Days of the Week and I Love You with Noel in Music
• We played on the roof playground and the 2nd floor indoor gym

 
Classroom Activities:

• We created Fall trees by gluing a brown tree cutout to blue paper and adding leaves in Fall colors around the bottom of the tree. It helped to reinforce the idea that leaves fall down off the trees in Fall. As Thanksgiving approaches, we created turkeys by water-coloring a coffee filter orange, red and yellow and attached it to a brown turkey cutout that the children affixed with an orange beak and feet. We added googly eyes for a fun effect!

Reminders:

• Library books are due back next Tuesday 11/20/18
• P/T Conferences are on Tuesday 11/13/18 (No school for students, childcare available)
• Picture Day is on Thursday 11/15/18

Enjoy the photos and have a great weekend! As always, please feel free to reach out through email with questions or concerns.

Warmly,
Sarah and Jill