Green Room

This week in the green room

💐💀Dia De Los muertos🕯️🍊🌼

This week, Teacher Nancy and I shared a beautiful and meaningful time with the children learning about Día de los Muertos. We read two wonderful stories — Día de los Muertos by Roseanne Thong and Calavera Abecedario by Jeanette Winter — that helped the children understand the importance of honoring and remembering loved ones. Through these books, we explored how this special celebration is filled with love, color, and joy — a time to cherish memories and celebrate life through storytelling, art, and togetherness.

Have a great weekend,
Karla & Nancy

Dia De Los Muertos sugarskulls

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This week, we celebrated Día de los Muertos with a special story and creative art projects led by Teacher Nancy. The children gathered to listen to Día de los Muertos by Roseanne Thong, a beautifully written and colorful book that helped us learn about this meaningful tradition of honoring loved ones.

After the story, Teacher Nancy guided the children as they created and decorated their very own sugar skulls using royal gel icing, sparkling jewels, and bright feathers. Each skull was unique and full of personality!

To continue the celebration, the children painted wooden flowers representing Cempasúchil — the fragrant marigold flowers known as flor de muertos. Their vibrant orange and yellow petals added a festive touch to our classroom and filled our day with creativity and color.

🖌️Water Color Cempasúchil 🌼

In class, the children also explored watercolor painting to create their own Cempasúchil flowers using lively watercolor paints and droppers. They watched as the colors blended and spread across the paper, bringing their marigolds to life in beautiful, vivid hues. The children loved learning that these special flowers symbolize love, remembrance, and the beauty of life.

Music with Teacher Lauren🎶

This week in music class, the children joyfully began with “The Children Who Sing With Me” song, keeping the steady beat together as they sang along. Teacher Lauren then reviewed the four different voices. The four voices being, shouting, normal, singing, and whisper. This gave all the children a chance to try each one out.

Next came the “Dinosaur Song,” where the children stomped to the rhythm using a tambourine, pretending to be big, powerful dinosaurs. Each child then had a turn to play their very own tambourine, exploring rhythm and sound.

The fun continued with a lively game of Follow the Leader using drumsticks, as the children followed Teacher Lauren’s lead to keep the beat.

To end the class on a high note, everyone played one of their favorites — The Glue Game! Laughter and music filled the room as the children sang, moved, and played together.

Library Guest Reader

This week in the Green Room, we were delighted to welcome our library guest reader, Hannah — Julien and Jaxon’s mommy — along with their little brother, Jonah! The children were so excited to have them visit. Hannah read two wonderfully silly favorites, No, David! and That’s Not Funny, David! by David Shannon, followed by the heartwarming story Be Kind by Zietlow Miller. The children were fully engaged and loved every moment!

We’re so grateful to our guest readers for bringing the joy of storytelling into our classroom. If you’d like to join in on the fun, please click the link below to sign up to be a guest reader!

🌞Outdoor Play🌞

Centers

This week at centers we explored our centers with sensory play, math centers art and more.

Share DAy

Share Day is always filled with lots of fun and meaningful conversations between the children and their friends. This week, Zenni brought her favorite book filled with classic nursery rhymes to share. Julien and Jaxon impressed us with their Spider-Man toys and even demonstrated how Spider-Man shoots his webs!

Unicorn by Siena
Spidermen by Julien & Jaxon
Unicorn by Romy
Witch Hat by Noa
What Are Little Girls Made Of By Zenni
Rocketship by Zachary

Service Learning

We are thrilled to share that our preschoolers will be taking part in a very special Service Learning Project this year! This hands-on experience will help our students learn about caring for our planet, helping animals in need, and working together toward a meaningful goal. Through our partnership with The Wildlife Learning and Conservation Center, the children will discover how small actions—like recycling—can make a big difference. We can’t wait to support our adopted Kinkajou and learn all about this amazing animal friend! Thank you, families, for joining us in collecting recyclables and supporting the children as they learn the value of caring for our environment and community.

Friday 15

This week atn Friday 15, the children enjoyed a wonderful math presentation by the first graders, who shared all about their “Number Cities.” They also had a great time listening to a lively and fun song performed by the kindergarten classes led by teacher Leidy.

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