Room 11 Newsletter
December 11th - January 14th, 2019
All School Program
Integrated Learning
- Handprint Menorah
- Making apple crisp
- Weighing packages
- Playing in the "snow"
- Making snowflakes
- Tracing and cutting lights
- Fill-in-the-blank alphabet tickets
- Snowball addition
- Weighing apples
- Sequencing animals from The Mitten
- Tracing and cutting mittens
- Gingerbread playdough
Literacy
We will be learning the letters Oo, Ee, and Uu. Some of our centers will include:
- Opposite puzzle
- Orange collage
- Olive patterning
- Egg painting
- Elephant puzzle
- Eagle hopscotch
- Etch a Sketch
- U BINGO
- Umbrella color code with letters
- Making a Unicorn horn
- United States flag puzzle
Technology
In Pre-K, we are finishing up our unplugged coding games by playing the Partner Coding game. The children will have the opportunity to act as both the coder and the computer as we prepare for the introduction of the Bee-Bots at the end of January!
Drama
Our Pre-K friends had a great time with our Holiday travel game. We acted out all kinds of ways to get from one relative to another (cars, planes, boats, submarines, skateboards, dinosaurs for all you cavemen out there, princess carriages, rocket ships, and dogsleds, just to name a few). We also protested what the king/queen said we couldn’t do in our Mayflower 2 unit. Kids shared the most important thing in the world (other than family) and then protested when the king/queen said they couldn’t do it anymore. The hallways rang with the cries of “That’s not fair!” Ask your kiddos about these two activities.
Media Center
Thank you for your participation at the Eric Jonsson Media Center Open House last week. Each book purchased was dedicated to a teacher or staff member and will permanently reside in the Media Center. We have 625 new items added to our collection for faculty, student, and parent use.
Environmental Science
Please remember to send your child with a coat especially for the morning classes as we go outside starting at 8:30. 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 Bird Treat Tree by the creek entrance. Hanging the treats in the tree is as much fun as making them for our wild bird friends!
P.E.
Ask your child about...
- What is a tradition?
- Their favorite holiday tradition.
- What are the vowels of the alphabet?
Important Dates
- December 14 - Pre-K All Day Feast at 11:00AM
- December 19 - Pajama Day
- December 20 - All School Program - Room 11 is in Program Group 2 unless specified otherwise
- January 7 - Back to school
- January 21 - No School in observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- January 22 - No School for Early Childhood, EC Admission Playdates