Room 6 News
Integrated Learning
Throughout the month of December, we will be learning about Holiday Traditions. We will hear from many of our Room 6 families about how they celebrate the Holidays. We will also be exploring a different theme each day including, Apples, Gingerbread, Snow, Gifts and Reindeer. Some books we will be reading are Jan Brett's The Mitten, several versions of The Gingerbread Man and One Candle by Eve Bunting.
Some of our activities include:
- Printing on a mitten
- Gingerbread men and women
- Playing in packing peanuts "snow"
- Reindeer antler headbands
- Bell addition
- Light color code
Literacy
- Seal color code
- "S" dot maze
- Six square collage
- Ostrich maze
- Opposite puzzles
- "O" sound cover
Environmental Science
Please remember to send your child with a coat especially for the morning classes as we go outside starting at 8:30 am. Be sure your child wears athletic shoes, as the creek can be slippery!
Smelling, feeling, seeing and hearing experiences made our “senses” hike to the creek a multi-sensory lesson. Passing the decomposing pumpkins in our compost bin was a sensory experience as we watch and smell them change from Jack-o-lanterns into soil. We continue our outdoor search for cycles that we can see in the gardens and those we cannot see, like days of the week, months of the years etc.
PreK students also will be making bird treats to hang on our Holiday Treat Tree by the creek entrance. Hanging the treats in the tree is as much fun as making them for our wild bird friends!
Drama
Pre-K
One of my favorite activities for Pre-K each year is acting out ways to get to Thanksgiving dinner. The students get to suggest ways we in which we can get to our meal, and we have to act them out with our whole bodies. Some of my favorite suggestions included balloons, pogo sticks, a horse drawn carriage, a submarine, and Uber. Have fun this holiday season thinking up (and then acting) additional ways to travel to family.
Events and Reminders
December 8 - All Day Pre-K Feast at 11:00
December 15 - Pajama Day
December 19 - January 3 - Winter Break (No School)
January 4 - Classes resume
January 5 - Night Light classes begin
January 13 - Hootenanny at 12:30 pm (parents attend)
January 16 - MLK Day (No School)
January 17 - Admission Playdate (No School)
*As the weather cools off please make sure all coats, hats and mittens are clearly labeled. Over the Winter Break, we would love for you to work with your child on getting their coat on by themselves. Ask them to teach you the "toes and the tag" trick!
All School Program
Please send your child through regular carpool without a coat or backpack. Please dress them in a white shirt and dark pants or jeans.