Room 11 Newsletter
December 5, 2017 - January 15, 2018
Integrated Learning
- Upper and lower case gift matching
- Handprint reindeer antler headbands
- Making snowmen
- Graphing favorite hot chocolate toppings
- Making handprint Menorahs
- Needs vs wants bookpage
- Practicing ordinal numbers with the animals from The Mitten
Literacy
- Snowman addition
- Observing seashells
- Writing letters in salt
- Opposite puzzles
- Ostrich patterning
- O maze
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, because the creek path 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!
Coding
In Pre-K, we have been busy with our beginning coding lessons! Students have already played our All About Me and Halloween coding games geared towards helping them understand sequencing and the basic concepts of coding. We will be spending the rest of our time until holiday break transitioning into partner coding games that will allow pairs of students to work together and take turns writing and following a code written with action cards. All of these games are building skills necessary in order to program the BeeBots, which will be brought out in the New Year!
Media Center
All School Program
Important Dates
Thursday, December 14 - Pajama Day
Friday, December 15 - All School Program
December 18 - January 2 - Winter Break
Wednesday, January 3 - Classes resume and Night Light Classes begin
Monday, January 15 - MLK Day - NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, January 16 - Admissions Playdate - NO SCHOOL for Early Childhood
Ask you child about....
- What is something you need vs. something you want?
- What is something you that starts with the letters O and S?
- Name an animal from The Mitten.