Welcome to the Purple Room!

Your Teachers! 

We are all so happy to spend our day with you!

       Ms. Terry             Miss Sheila                                   WELCOME!

  Inclusion Teacher      Paraprofessional          

Week of 10/12/2026:

Hello Purple Room Families! 

We began the week reading a fun story about the Magic of YELLOW! We also made beautiful fall trees, praciting our drawing skills and stamping the tree with yellow-triangle leaves. We then turned our attention to our sense of hearing, along with the story "When the Leaf Blew In". This story had a zany chain reaction sequence of happenings through the farm, all caused by a leaf that flew into the barn and made a cow sneeze! The children drew the path of the leaf and recalled the story sequence by gluing all the characters along the line in order. At the end of the week, we listened to a sound effect track of farm animals and identified each animal of the story by sound. The children used a dauber to mark each animal we heard as we went along! Our Discovery table now has sound jars. Each cyclindrical container has a door to cover the contents from sight. The children were challenged to shake a jar, use the picture guide to guess what may be inside, then turn the tube to open the door revealing the contents inside. The children get excited when they guess it right!

Our focus on our sense of hearing, is very helpful when engaging with out Heggerty Literacy activities. Between our morning and afternoon groups, our activities focused on listening to, and identifying, sounds such as hand claps, whistling, tearing a sheet of paper, musical instruments as a precursor to listening for beginning sounds of names, end sounds of words, and rhyming words. For our PreK group, we are also building and separating compound words and identifying numbers of words in a sentence.  We are also working on our Letter of the week: L. We read a story featuring the sound of the letter L throughout, then we practice seeing it, feeling it on a textured template, building it with out Mat Man pieces, and writing it with a dry erase template. Our morning students are practicing matching and identifying the letters of their name. Some know them all, some do not, which is expected at this time of year. All can identify their name in print, and are quickly identifying the beginning sound in their name. 

Our Eureka Math curriculum has our focus on matching and identifying groups by a common feature. Some items can be grouped, or identified as same or different for a variety of reasons. At table time we had sorting and matching activites using fall items and leaves. The fall items were sorted by size, grouped into small-medium-or large stacks on top of small-medium-and large yellow triangles. Our leaves were matched to sorting mats first by color, then resorted when the sorting mat was turned over revealing types of leaves according to shape. 

I hope everyone found the sign up format for Parent Conferences easy to navigate. I will look again to be sure of the ongoing enrollment. Please reach out if you had any difficulties on securing a time slot. I look forward to meeting with you all during the week of 10/26!

Also, come and enjoy the ECC Table and Treat event on Wednesday, the 21st, from 5:00-6:00! 

Thank you,

Ms. Terry & Miss Sheila 

The Magic of Yellow read aloyd: N/A

When the Leaf Blew In read aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nUC8NODz4

The Rhythm in the Scarves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvEACH0LJqs&list=RDnvEACH0LJqs&start_radio=1

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